7-letter words with N as the 2nd letter and S as the 4th letter

Lock in the pattern _N_S___ and you narrow the search to a compact set. The opening letters vary: A begins 8 matches, while I and S begin 5 each. Only 2 entries count as common, so expect a mix of recognisable words and specialist vocabulary rather than an everyday list.

At a glance: the N-and-S pattern

• There are 33 seven-letter matches with N second and S fourth.
• UNUSUAL, ONESELF and GNOSTIC show three different opening-letter shapes.
• Nine matches end in S, while 8 end in D.
• UNISIZE leads the score list at 16 points; KNISHES follows at 14.
• Collins has 31 matches, NWL2023 has 23, and ENABLE has 19; the sets overlap.

How many 7-letter words have N second and S fourth?

The answer is 33 across the tournament dictionaries counted here. That total is not the sum of the dictionary counts: a word can appear in more than one list, and the three source totals overlap.

The examples show how varied the pattern is. ONESELF and ONESIES start with O, GNASHER and GNASHED start with G, while ANISEED starts with A. The fixed letters sit inside very different word shapes, so use known letters in the other positions to narrow the options.

Use the fixed letters before guessing

For 7-letter words with N as the 2nd letter and S as the 4th letter, endings offer a useful next filter: S is the most frequent final letter, with D close behind. Check those two endings early when your rack or puzzle clues leave the last position open.

The score leaders are not necessarily the easiest words to recognise. UNISIZE reaches 16 points, while KNISHES scores 14 and INKSPOT scores 13. Treat the score ranking as a tile-value clue, not a promise that a word will fit your game's dictionary.

Only 2 matches are common by the frequency cutoff, and 33 is far below the 337 words in the same-length O-second, S-fourth pattern. This is a narrow pattern, not a broad vocabulary pool; check your game's word list before relying on an unfamiliar entry.