7-letter words with L as the 2nd letter and O as the 6th letter

The fixed letters leave four open positions, so the list ranges from familiar words such as ALCOHOL and BLOSSOM to less common entries. Collins accepts 61 matches, while ENABLE includes 40 and NWL2023 includes 50; those totals overlap, so they are not separate groups to add together. Use the pattern to narrow a board or puzzle, then check the word list your game uses.

At a glance: the L _ O pattern

• The pattern contains 63 words accepted by at least one tournament dictionary.
• ALCOHOL, BLOSSOM, PLATOON, and PLYWOOD show how varied the open positions can be.
• The most frequent first letters are P, with 14 words, and A, with 13.
• N is the final letter in 24 matches, making it the leading ending.
• Only 6 entries fall among the top 25,000 English words by frequency.

Which letters fill the open positions?

P and A lead the first-letter group, but neither dominates: together they account for 27 matches. ALCOHOL and PLATOON make the pattern easy to see, while ELATION and FLEXION show different ways the middle letters can shift.

The final N is more common than any other ending, with 24 words; S comes next with 9. For a tighter clue, changing the sixth letter from O to E raises the match count to 689, so that one position sharply narrows the search.

How do the strongest scores compare?

FLUMMOX leads the scoring examples at 21 points, followed by FLYBOOK at 19 and FLYBLOW at 18. Those unusual words reward a board position that supports their high-value letters; the average score across this pattern is 11.5.

Most matches are not everyday vocabulary: just 6 meet the common-word cutoff, and 54 have definitions. Treat a high score as a prompt to verify the word, not proof that every game accepts it. The 7-letter words with L as the 2nd letter and O as the 6th letter also differ across Collins, ENABLE, and NWL2023.