7-letter words with N as the 3rd letter and A as the 6th letter

GENERAL, CENTRAL, and FUNERAL show how varied this pattern can be: familiar words sit beside specialist entries. The 182 matches span three tournament lists, with 127 in ENABLE, 179 in Collins, and 149 in NWL2023. Only 17 fall within the common-word cutoff, so a visible fit is not always a playable one.

7-letter words with N as the 3rd letter and A as the 6th letter

• The pattern has 182 matches across the tournament dictionaries.
• GENERAL, CENTRAL, and FUNERAL are familiar examples.
• Only 17 matches meet the common-word cutoff.
• S is the final letter in 50 matches; L closes 32.
• M leads as the first letter with 26 matches; C and S each have 21.

Which starting and ending letters dominate?

M starts 26 entries, while C and S each start 21; no other opening letter reaches that count. The endings are more concentrated: S closes 50 words and L closes 32, followed by N at 20 and R at 16.

When crossing letters leave the final slot uncertain, test S and L early. GENERAL ends in L; BANANAS ends in S, and both keep N third and A sixth. Those examples show why checking the fixed positions matters more than judging a candidate by its first letter alone.

Which N-and-A words score most?

JANIZAR leads the Scrabble scores at 23 points. PANCHAX follows at 21, with JUNKMAN and GENIZAH tied at 20. These high values come from less familiar words, so knowing the spelling is only half the challenge; confirm that your game accepts the word before building a play around it.

Dictionary coverage differs across the matches: Collins has 179, NWL2023 has 149, and ENABLE has 127. The total of 182 means a word appears in at least one of those tournament lists, not necessarily in all of them. That distinction is the main limitation of using the combined count as a playability check.