7-letter words with O as the 1st letter and E as the 5th letter

The fixed pattern O _ _ _ E _ _ leaves four open positions, and only five of the 98 entries rank among common English words. Familiar options include OATMEAL, OUTLETS, and OPENERS; the rest range from ordinary inflections to specialist vocabulary. The average score across matches is 10.1 points, well below the leaders.

How many 7-letter words have O first and E fifth?

• 98 entries meet the pattern across at least one tournament dictionary.
• Collins includes 95, NWL2023 includes 65, and ENABLE includes 56; the counts overlap.
• Final S (33 words) and T (26) are the two most common endings.
• OFFPEAK and OXYMELS lead the scores at 19 points apiece.

Which matching words score highest?

OFFPEAK and OXYMELS each score 19, while OXYGENS scores 18. Those are stronger rack-building targets than familiar OATMEAL, which does not appear among the ten highest-scoring examples. The edge comes from premium letters: both leading words carry a K or X, so retaining one can matter more than chasing a familiar word.

OOZIEST reaches 16, with OFFBEAT at 15; OAKLEAF and OUTJEST each score 14. A seven-tile play can earn the Scrabble bingo bonus, so do not judge a rack by its word score alone. Check the available squares before committing a high-value tile.

How does the O-and-E pattern compare?

At the same seven-letter length, the S-starting, fifth-letter-E pattern has 449 matches, more than four times O's 98. Changing only the fifth letter after initial O also raises the count: I has 142 matches, while A has 129 and O has 91. The tight constraint is the starting O, not E in position five.

For 7-letter words with O first and E fifth, the endings reinforce the shape: 33 entries finish in S and 26 in T, but just three end in E. Only five words fall in the common-frequency group. Tournament counts also differ by dictionary, so check your game's word list once if a play depends on a marginal entry.