7-letter words with O as the 2nd letter and P as the 3rd letter

The pattern is _OP____: O and P are fixed in the middle, while the opening and final four letters change. POPCORN and TOPPING are familiar fits, but plenty of entries are less obvious. Just 11 qualify as common under the frequency cutoff, so a word that looks convincing may still be unfamiliar or absent from your game's dictionary.

The OP pattern in brief

• There are 161 matching words across the tournament dictionaries.
• The Collins list has 155 matches; NWL2023 has 120 and ENABLE has 103.
• POPCORN, POPULAR, HOPEFUL, and TOPPING keep the O-P pair in positions two and three.
• C leads as an opening letter with 35 entries; P starts 27 and T starts 24.
• S closes 62 words, making it the most frequent final letter by a wide margin.

Which letters start and end these words?

Start by testing C, P, or T: those openings cover 86 matches altogether. COPYING, POPPIES, and TOPSOIL give a feel for the range, from a familiar verb to a compound noun. If the first square is hidden, those three initials are a practical place to begin.

A final S is unusually common here, appearing in 62 entries. POPPIES, GOPHERS, and TOPPERS illustrate that large group. The next endings are G with 14 words and D with 12, so an S at the end is a strong clue rather than a minor detail.

Scores for 7-letter words with O second and P third

KOPIYKY heads the scoring table at 23 points, followed by POPJOYS at 21. KOPIYKA and KOPIYOK each score 20, while KOPECKS, COPYBOY, TOPKICK, and DOPIAZA each reach 19.

Those top values come from less familiar words; a large score alone says little about acceptance in your game.

The 161 matches draw on overlapping dictionary sources, and a particular game may use only one. Before playing an obscure scorer, check the word list for that game. Among 7-letter words with O as the 2nd letter and P as the 3rd letter, POPCORN and HOPEFUL are more recognizable, though only 11 entries meet the common-word cutoff.