7-letter words with O as the 1st letter and E as the 6th letter

Fixing O in slot one and E in slot six leaves 155 words, though only 13 fall among the top 25,000 English words by frequency. OFFICER, OFFERED, and ORDERED are recognizable; OPAQUED leads scoring. S and D dominate the endings, appearing 61 and 35 times.

7-letter words with O as the 1st letter and E as the 6th letter

• The pattern has 155 entries across the tournament dictionaries.
• Collins includes 153 matches; NWL2023 has 105, while ENABLE has 98.
• Only 13 entries meet the common-word frequency cutoff.
• S leads as a final letter with 61 words; D follows with 35.
• OPAQUED tops the scoring list at 19; OPAQUES, OPAQUER, OLYKOEK, and OXHIDES score 18.

Which final letters should you test first?

S is the strongest first check: 61 entries end in S, compared with 35 ending in D; R follows at 22. N and T each appear seven times, while W appears five times. If the last tile is unknown, test S, D, then R rather than treating every ending equally.

The uncommon endings are useful for narrowing a clue. Just four words end in E and four in L, so either final letter cuts the search sharply. The examples include plural forms such as OFFICES and ORANGES, but the pattern also catches verbs like OFFERED and ORDERED.

Which entries score well, and where are they accepted?

OPAQUED is the leader at 19 points. OPAQUES, OPAQUER, OLYKOEK, and OXHIDES each score 18, ahead of familiar OFFICER and OFFICES at 15. The top of the scoring list favors less everyday vocabulary, so check the board before spending a valuable tile on an unfamiliar word.

Among 155 matches, 134 have definitions, but only 13 meet the common-word frequency cutoff. Dictionary coverage also differs: Collins includes 153 matches, compared with 105 in NWL2023 and 98 in ENABLE. The lists overlap, so a word accepted in one game may not appear in another; check your game's word list before relying on a specialist entry.