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

A sixth-position S often sits inside a familiar ending: CONTEST and LONGEST finish with T, while DENTIST and CONFESS take other routes. The final letter is not fixed by this clue. Twelve entries are common, so recognizable candidates share the field with specialist vocabulary.

At a glance for N-3rd and S-6th

• There are 128 matches with N third and S sixth.
• T is the most frequent final letter, appearing 49 times.
• ZANYISH leads scoring at 22 points.
• CONTEST, LONGEST and DENTIST are familiar pattern checks.

The sixth S leaves the final letter open

T closes 49 matches, followed by H with 29, E with 20 and S with 18. That spread is a useful reminder: an S in the sixth slot is not automatically a plural ending.

CONTEST, LONGEST and DENTIST end in T; CONFESS ends in S. ZANYISH reaches 22 points, with ZANYISM at 21.

A rack-search tip

How to narrow the N-and-S frame

Start by holding N in slot three and S in slot six, then test likely final letters in order: T, H, E and S account for most of the endings. Familiar words such as FANTASY, CONSIST, SUNRISE and TINIEST give quick shape checks.

CONTEST and LONGEST make the N-third frame easy to verify, but the sixth S also appears in words such as CONFESS and TINIEST. Check the position rather than relying on a suffix impression.

A final T is the strongest follow-up guess because it appears 49 times. Still, H and E together cover another 49 matches, so a T-only search would miss a large part of the set.

Starting letters are less lopsided than endings: P leads with 14, C and F follow with 13 each, and D and S have 12. Of the 128 matches, 87 have definitions.