7-letter words with L as the 2nd letter and E as the 3rd letter

7-letter words with L as the 2nd letter and E as the 3rd letter: 231 tournament-dictionary matches, from CLEARLY and ELECTED to PLEADED and SLEEVES.

231 wordsTop pick CLEARLYHighest score KLEZMER 22

30 of 231 are everyday words (13%). A mix of familiar words and game-only finds.

2nd letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

3rd letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

With L in 2nd place, A is the most common 3rd letter (385 words). The bar under each letter shows the size of its list.

Length
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Common words 30 · most-used first

CLEARLY₁₂
ELECTED₁₀
ELEMENT₉
PLEASED₁₀
BLESSED₁₀
CLEARED₁₀
CLEANED₁₀
ELEGANT₈
CLEANER₉
CLEARER₉
SLEEVES₁₀
PLEADED₁₁
FLEEING₁₁
PLEDGED₁₂
SLENDER₈
ELECTRO₉
FLEMING₁₃
BLENDED₁₁
CLEANSE₉
CLEANUP₁₁
SLEEPER₉
BLENDER₁₀
CLEMENT₁₁
PLEDGES₁₁
ELEVATE₁₀
ALERTED₈
PLEASES₉
FLEDGED₁₃
CLERICS₁₁
PLENARY₁₂

All valid words 231

A to Z. Includes rare and Collins-only words. Linked tiles open the word's meaning, score and rhymes.

ALECOST₉
ALEGARS₈
ALEGGED₁₀
ALEGGES₉
ALEMBIC₁₃
ALENCON₉
ALENGTH₁₁
ALEPINE₉
ALERCES₉
ALERION₇
ALERTED₈
ALERTER₇
ALERTLY₁₀
ALETHIC₁₂
ALEURON₇
ALEVINS₁₀
ALEWIFE₁₃
ALEXIAS₁₄
ALEXINE₁₄
ALEXINS₁₄
ALEYING₁₁
BLEAKER₁₃
BLEAKLY₁₆
BLEARED₁₀
BLEARER₉
BLEATED₁₀
BLEATER₉
BLEEDER₁₀
BLEEPED₁₂
BLEEPER₁₁
BLELLUM₁₁
BLEMISH₁₄
BLENDED₁₁
BLENDER₁₀
BLENDES₁₀
BLESBOK₁₅
BLESSED₁₀
BLESSER₉
BLESSES₉
BLETHER₁₂
BLETTED₁₀
BLEWART₁₂
BLEWITS₁₂
CLEANED₁₀
CLEANER₉
CLEANLY₁₂
CLEANSE₉
CLEANUP₁₁
CLEARED₁₀
CLEARER₉
CLEARLY₁₂
CLEATED₁₀
CLEAVED₁₃
CLEAVER₁₂
CLEAVES₁₂
CLECKED₁₆
CLEEKED₁₄
CLEEKIT₁₃
CLEEPED₁₂
CLEEVES₁₂
CLEFTED₁₃
CLEMENT₁₁
CLEMMED₁₄
CLEOMES₁₁
CLEPING₁₂
CLERICS₁₁
CLERIDS₁₀
CLERISY₁₂
CLERKED₁₄
CLERKLY₁₆
CLERUCH₁₄
CLEUCHS₁₄
CLEUGHS₁₃
CLEWING₁₃
ELECTED₁₀
ELECTEE₉
ELECTOR₉
ELECTRO₉
ELEGANT₈
ELEGIAC₁₀
ELEGIES₈
ELEGISE₈
ELEGIST₈
ELEGITS₈
ELEGIZE₁₇
ELEMENT₉
ELENCHI₁₂
ELENCHS₁₂
ELEVATE₁₀
ELEVENS₁₀
ELEVONS₁₀
FLEABAG₁₃
FLEAPIT₁₂
FLECHES₁₅
FLECKED₁₇
FLECKER₁₆
FLEDGED₁₃
FLEDGES₁₂
FLEECED₁₃
FLEECER₁₂
FLEECES₁₂
FLEECIE₁₂
FLEEING₁₁
FLEERED₁₁
FLEERER₁₀
FLEETED₁₁
FLEETER₁₀
FLEETLY₁₃
FLEGGED₁₃
FLEHMEN₁₅
FLEMING₁₃
FLEMISH₁₅
FLENSED₁₁
FLENSER₁₀
FLENSES₁₀
FLESHED₁₄
FLESHER₁₃
FLESHES₁₃
FLESHLY₁₆
FLETTON₁₀
FLEURET₁₀
FLEURON₁₀
FLEXILE₁₇
FLEXING₁₈
FLEXION₁₇
FLEXORS₁₇
FLEXURE₁₇
FLEYING₁₄
GLEAMED₁₁
GLEAMER₁₀
GLEANED₉
GLEANER₈
GLEAVES₁₁
GLEBOUS₁₀
GLEDGED₁₁
GLEDGES₁₀
GLEEFUL₁₁
GLEEING₉
GLEEKED₁₃
GLEEMAN₁₀
GLEEMEN₁₀
GLEENIE₈
GLEETED₉
GLEGGER₁₀
GLENOID₉
GLENTED₉
GLEYING₁₂
ILEITIS₇
ILEUSES₇
KLEAGLE₁₂
KLEENEX₁₈
KLEPHTS₁₆
KLEPTOS₁₃
KLEZMER₂₂
OLEARIA₇
OLEATES₇
OLEFINE₁₀
OLEFINS₁₀
OLEINES₇
OLESTRA₇
PLEADED₁₁
PLEADER₁₀
PLEAING₁₀
PLEASED₁₀
PLEASER₉
PLEASES₉
PLEATED₁₀
PLEATER₉
PLEBEAN₁₁
PLEBIFY₁₇
PLECTRA₁₁
PLECTRE₁₁
PLEDGED₁₂
PLEDGEE₁₁
PLEDGER₁₁
PLEDGES₁₁
PLEDGET₁₁
PLEDGOR₁₁
PLEIADS₁₀
PLENARY₁₂
PLENIPO₁₁
PLENISH₁₂
PLENISM₁₁
PLENIST₉
PLENUMS₁₁
PLEONAL₉
PLEONIC₁₁
PLEOPOD₁₂
PLERION₉
PLEROMA₁₁
PLEROME₁₁
PLESHES₁₂
PLESSOR₉
PLEUCHS₁₄
PLEUGHS₁₃
PLEURAE₉
PLEURAL₉
PLEURAS₉
PLEURON₉
PLEXORS₁₆
PLEXURE₁₆
SLEAVED₁₁
SLEAVES₁₀
SLEAZED₁₇
SLEAZES₁₆
SLEAZOS₁₆
SLEDDED₁₀
SLEDDER₉
SLEDGED₁₀
SLEDGER₉
SLEDGES₉
SLEECHY₁₅
SLEEKED₁₂
SLEEKEN₁₁
SLEEKER₁₁
SLEEKIT₁₁
SLEEKLY₁₄
SLEEPER₉
SLEEPRY₁₂
SLEETED₈
SLEEVED₁₁
SLEEVER₁₀
SLEEVES₁₀
SLEIDED₉
SLEIGHS₁₁
SLEIGHT₁₁
SLENDER₈
SLENTER₇
SLEUTHS₁₀
SLEWING₁₁
ULEXITE₁₄

Letters by positionIn 48% of these words the 6th letter is E.

1st letter

P18%
F16%
C13%

4th letter

A18%
E16%
N9%

5th letter

I18%
T13%
G10%

6th letter

E48%
N10%
O6%

7th letter

S23%
D20%
R16%

Highest-scoring words

Scrabble and Words With Friends points, before board bonuses

Score spreadMost of these words score 10 in Scrabble; KLEZMER tops the list with 22. Scores before board bonuses.

77 points: 10 words
8 points: 11 words
99 points: 37 words
10 points: 45 words
1111 points: 40 words
12 points: 29 words
1313 points: 19 words
14 points: 14 words
1515 points: 5 words
16 points: 10 words
1717 points: 8 words
18 points: 2 words
1919 points: 0 words
20 points: 0 words
2121 points: 0 words
22 points: 1 words

Word	Scrabble	Words With Friends	Dictionaries
KLEZMER	22	24	All three
FLEXING	18	21	All three
KLEENEX	18	20	Collins · NWL
FLEXION	17	19	All three
FLECKED	17	19	All three
FLEXORS	17	18	All three
FLEXURE	17	19	All three
FLEXILE	17	19	All three
SLEAZED	17	18	NWL only
ELEGIZE	17	19	All three
PLEBIFY	17	19	Collins only
FLESHLY	16	16	All three

The fixed pattern is _LE____, but the first and last letters leave room to narrow a rack. Thirty matches fall among the top 25,000 English words by frequency, so recognizable choices sit alongside specialist vocabulary. CLEARLY, ELECTED, ELEMENT, and PLEASED show the range of forms, from an adverb and verb forms to a noun and adjective; this pattern list does not claim that every game accepts every entry.

7-letter words with L as the 2nd letter and E as the 3rd letter

231 tournament-dictionary words match the fixed L-E pattern.
P is the most frequent first letter, with 41 matches.
S is the most frequent final letter, with 53 matches.
KLEZMER leads the scoring examples at 22 points.
Only 30 matches rank among the top 25,000 English words by frequency.

Which first and last letters are most common?

P leads with 41 matches, followed by F at 37 and C at 31; S contributes 29. Examples include PLEASED and PLEADED for P, FLEEING and FLEMING for F, and CLEARLY and CLEANED for C. These give you recognizable anchors when your first tile is fixed, while the second and third positions stay locked as L and E.

The endings cluster around S and D: 53 words finish in S, 47 in D, and 36 in R. Elected, blessed, and pledged show familiar past-tense or participle forms; cleaner and clearer take a different route. A familiar suffix is a clue, not confirmation of the whole seven-letter sequence, so check every position before committing.

High scores and dictionary reach

KLEZMER reaches 22 points, while FLEXING and KLEENEX each score 18 before board-square bonuses. The top scorer is not an everyday word, so treat it as a rack-building possibility rather than a word to force. FLEXION, FLECKED, FLEXORS, FLEXURE, FLEXILE, SLEAZED, and ELEGIZE each score 17.

For 7-letter words with L as the 2nd letter and E as the 3rd letter, the dictionary split matters: Collins has 229 matches, compared with 178 in NWL2023 and 165 in ENABLE. A definition is available for 184 matches, so the full set still includes unfamiliar vocabulary. Check your game's word list before playing a less familiar match.

Questions people ask

Which 7-letter words with L second and E third start with P?

P is the largest first-letter group, with 41 matches. PLEASED and PLEADED are familiar examples; F follows with 37 matches, including FLEEING and FLEMING. C is next with 31, represented by words such as CLEARLY and CLEANED.

What is the highest-scoring word in this pattern?

KLEZMER is the highest scorer at 22 points. FLEXING and KLEENEX follow at 18 each, then FLEXION, FLECKED, FLEXORS, FLEXURE, FLEXILE, SLEAZED, and ELEGIZE at 17. These scores are before board bonuses.

Are many of these seven-letter matches common words?

Thirty matches fall within the top 25,000 English words by frequency, including CLEARLY, ELECTED, ELEMENT, and PLEASED. The set also contains less familiar vocabulary, so a familiar-looking pattern does not mean every matching word is common.

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