7-letter words with O as the 2nd letter and U as the 6th letter

Two fixed letters leave five positions to narrow down, but the resulting words range from everyday choices such as workout and lookout to less familiar entries like zoecium. The endings offer a useful clue: S and L account for many of these words. Only 9 qualify as common by frequency, so expect plenty of tournament entries you may not use in everyday conversation.

At a glance: C leads the opening letters

• There are 111 words in the pattern, counted when they appear in at least one tournament dictionary.
• C is the most common first letter, with 21 words; B follows with 12.
• S is the most common final letter at 36 words, ahead of L at 23.
• Only 9 entries are common by word frequency, despite familiar examples such as workout and coconut.
• Jodhpur, comique, and zoecium each score 20 points in Scrabble before board bonuses.

7-letter words with O as the 2nd letter and U as the 6th letter

The count sits close to the neighboring pattern with E second and U sixth: that one has 112 words, just one more. Change the second letter to A, though, and the count rises to 193. That makes O a fairly narrow choice among these vowel patterns.

The endings are less evenly spread. S finishes 36 words and L finishes 23, while M appears at the end of 15. Try the common endings first when you have those slots open: workout, lookout, and rollout show the S-or-T family of everyday options, while soulful and copious demonstrate different shapes.

Which words score highest?

Jodhpur, comique, and zoecium top the Scrabble scores at 20 points each. Conflux and boxhaul follow at 19, while zoarium scores 18. These are rack-score comparisons, not guaranteed board scores; a premium square can change the result, and an unfamiliar high scorer is not automatically a safe play.

The pattern has 87 defined entries, but its tournament-dictionary totals differ: Collins lists 108, NWL2023 lists 79, and ENABLE lists 73. The overall count includes a word found in at least one of those lists, not a promise that every game accepts every entry. For 7-letter words with O as the 2nd letter and U as the 6th letter, check your game's word list before committing an obscure play.