7-letter words with E as the 3rd letter and N as the 7th letter

With the pattern _ _ E _ _ _ N fixed, the matches range from familiar words such as treason and freeman to less everyday entries such as muezzin and flehmen. Only 7 fall among the 25,000 most frequent English words, so separate likely everyday choices from dictionary-valid possibilities. Collins accepts all 97; ENABLE accepts 70.

At a glance: the E-and-N pattern

• The fixed letters produce 97 seven-letter matches across tournament dictionaries.
• Every match ends in N; treason, freeman, and wherein show the pattern in familiar words.
• S is the most common first letter, with 16 matches; P follows with 12.
• MUEZZIN leads the scoring examples at 27 points, while only 7 matches are common.

Which starting letters appear most often?

S leads with 16 words, ahead of P at 12 and G at 10. A adds 9, while C and F each contribute 8. That spread gives you a practical search order when the first letter is still unknown: test S and P before working through the smaller groups.

Examples make those initials easier to scan: stepson and sweeten start with S, preteen starts with P, and gremlin starts with G. For A, abelian fits; chevron and crewman cover C. The pattern is not dominated by one opening letter, but S has four more matches than P.

Keeping E in the third position while changing the last letter changes the size sharply: final S has 548 matches and final D has 337, compared with 97 for N. The N ending narrows the search, but the fixed middle E still leaves a mix of word types.

Which matches score best?

MUEZZIN is the top scoring example at 27 points, well ahead of FLEXION at 17. CHEVRON, GHERKIN, and FLEHMEN each score 15, making them strong alternatives when the high-value letters in MUEZZIN do not fit your rack.

The score list rewards unusual letter combinations, not everyday vocabulary: only 7 of the 97 matches are common. Treat MUEZZIN as a scoring candidate rather than a likely familiar answer, and check your game's dictionary before committing to an unfamiliar word.

Dictionary coverage differs: Collins includes all 97 matches, NWL2023 includes 76, and ENABLE includes 70. A word accepted in Collins may not carry over to an NWL2023 or ENABLE game, so the full set is not interchangeable across platforms.