7-letter words with M as the 2nd letter and E as the 6th letter

This pattern fixes two positions: the second tile is M, and the sixth is E. That leaves five letters open, producing words with several different starts and endings. Smaller, emerged, and imposed show how the same letter frame fits everyday words, while the full set also includes less familiar choices for word games.

At a glance: the M–E pattern

• The pattern contains 182 seven-letter entries across the tournament dictionaries.
• S is the most common starting letter, appearing in 61 matches.
• D is the most common final letter, appearing in 71 matches.
• EMBOXED and IMMIXED tie for the top tile score at 19 points.

7-letter words with M as the 2nd letter and E as the 6th letter

The most frequent opening letters are S, E, and I: 61, 49, and 38 words respectively. That makes smaller, emerged, and imposed good examples of the pattern’s different shapes, rather than a single dominant word family.

Endings cluster even more tightly. D closes 71 entries, S closes 60, and R closes 39; emerged and imposed fit the common D ending, while smaller shows the substantial R group. By contrast, only 51 seven-letter words with M second have N in the sixth position, so E gives this particular pattern a much larger pool.

Which matches are worth checking in a word game?

For a high tile score, check EMBOXED and IMMIXED first: each scores 19 points before board premiums. EMBOXES and IMMIXES score 18, while familiar SMACKED scores 16. These are tile-score comparisons, not a promise that a word will fit an open lane or rack.

The set has 146 defined entries, but just 20 count as common by word frequency. That gap matters when you are playing from memory: start with familiar words such as smaller, smarter, or smashed, then verify rarer candidates against your game’s dictionary. Counts differ by word list: Collins includes 177 matches, compared with 123 in NWL2023 and 112 in ENABLE.