7-letter words with I as the 2nd letter and A as the 6th letter

The fixed pattern is _I___A_: I sits in slot two, A in slot six, and the other five positions can vary. There are 205 tournament-dictionary matches, but only 18 rank among the commonest English words. Familiar anchors such as liberal and highway make the pattern easier to scan; the list also includes less familiar entries.

7-letter words with I second and A sixth

• 205 entries meet both fixed-letter clues across the tournament dictionaries.
• Only 18 matches fall among the commonest English words.
• M begins 31 matches, more than any other first letter.
• S closes 49 matches, the leading final letter.
• Collins includes 200 matches; NWL2023 has 163 and ENABLE has 148.

Which first and last letters appear most?

Familiar words give the pattern a foothold: similar, digital, liberal, display, virtual, and mineral all fit. The first letter is not evenly spread: M leads with 31 matches, while P has 22 and D has 21. Starting with M is a practical first scan, but the examples show several different word families.

S is the most frequent final letter, closing 49 matches; L follows at 38, then N at 24. If the last tile is known, test S before less common endings. By comparison, keeping I second but switching the sixth letter to E yields 869 matches, so changing that one clue opens a much larger pool.

Which matching words score highest?

PIAZZAS tops the Scrabble scoring list at 27 points, with MITZVAH at 24. HIGHWAY, PICKMAW, and ZIKURAT each score 20. The familiar HIGHWAY is an easy-to-recognize high scorer, while PIAZZAS shows how a less everyday word can carry a bigger tile total.

Dictionary coverage is uneven: Collins includes 200 matches, NWL2023 has 163, and ENABLE has 148, against 205 overall; those sets overlap. For 7-letter words with I second and A sixth, confirm your game's word list before relying on an unfamiliar entry. Test the fixed slots first, then scan familiar anchors such as similar or digital; 169 matches have definitions.