7-letter words with L as the 1st letter and C as the 6th letter

The fixed pattern is L _ _ _ _ C _, leaving five positions open while the sixth stays C. LICENCE, LETTUCE, LATTICE, and LATENCY show how much the middle letters can vary. Only four matches are common, so familiar options sit beside a longer tail of specialist entries.

The pattern at a glance

• Exactly 15 tournament-dictionary entries match L _ _ _ _ C _.
• Collins has 15 matches; ENABLE and NWL2023 each have 9.
• Four matches rank as common English words.
• Six matches end in K, five in E, and two each in S and Y.

How can you narrow the L-first, C-sixth pattern?

Anchor the known letters first: put L in slot one and C in slot six, then test the five open positions. Familiar spellings include LICENCE, LETTUCE, LATTICE, and LATENCY. Those examples differ sharply in their middle letters, so checking the whole pattern is safer than relying on a vague word shape.

An ending clue cuts the options further. K closes six matches, E closes five, and S or Y closes two each. If your final tile is K, focus on LAYBACK, LIMBECK, LAVROCK, LAYLOCK, LUSTICK, and LASSOCK; an E clue points to five other candidates.

Which entries score most on this pattern?

LAYBACK leads the Scrabble score list at 18 points, followed by LIMBECK at 17. LAVROCK and LAYLOCK each score 16. Those less familiar words beat LICENCE, which scores 11, and LATENCY, which scores 12; the top scorer is not automatically the easiest word to recognize.

Dictionary coverage is the main limitation: Collins counts 15 matches, while ENABLE and NWL2023 each count 9. Nine entries have definitions, and the average score is 12.7. Check the word list used in your game before playing, because a count in one dictionary does not establish acceptance in another.

For comparison, the same L-first pattern with E in slot six has 316 matches.