7-letter words with I as the 1st letter and L as the 3rd letter

The fixed pattern is I-L in the first and third positions, leaving five letters to solve around it. Only four of these 28 words rank among the most common English words, so start with familiar options such as illegal, islands, and illness before testing rarer forms. The ending is often S: 13 entries finish that way.

7-letter words with I as the 1st letter and L as the 3rd letter

• There are 28 matching words across the tournament dictionaries counted here.
• Illegal, islands, and illness are recognizable choices among the examples.
• Thirteen matches end in S; four end in D.
• Inlocks leads the scoring examples at 13 points.

Which words fit the I-L pattern?

The clearest everyday candidates are illegal, islands, illness, and illicit. Those four account for the common-word group; most of the remaining entries are less familiar. A fixed I in position one and L in position three narrows the search, but the middle and final letters still distinguish words such as inlands, inliers, and inlayer.

Many examples cluster around the opening letters IL: illegal, illness, illicit, and illogic all begin with that sequence. Others use IN, including inlands, inlayer, and inliers. That split gives you a practical solve: if the second tile is N rather than L, check the IN group instead of cycling through similar IL spellings.

How do the scores and word lists compare?

Inlocks is the top scorer among the listed examples at 13 points, followed by inlying at 11. Illogic, illumed, illuvia, inlaced, and inlayer each score 10. The average score is 8.9, so the leader stands out without relying on an especially long or unusual word.

Collins contains all 28 matches, compared with 21 in NWL2023 and 17 in ENABLE. That gap matters in play: a word accepted in Collins may not be accepted in an NWL2023 or ENABLE game. Check your game's word list before committing to an uncommon entry such as inlocks or illuvia.