7-letter words with O as the 3rd letter and P as the 4th letter

The fixed O-P pair appears in familiar past-tense words such as CHOPPED and CROPPED, as well as nouns like PROPHET and PROPANE. Only 14 entries rank among the top 25,000 English words by frequency, so common examples sit beside less familiar plays. Dictionary coverage varies: Collins includes 137 matches, while ENABLE includes 107.

At a glance: the O-P pattern

• The pattern has 140 seven-letter matches across the tournament dictionaries.
• STOPPED, DROPPED, and ADOPTED show the common -ed ending.
• A final S is the most frequent ending, appearing in 36 matches; D follows with 22.
• P and S lead as first letters, with 26 and 25 words respectively.
• The average score is 12.3 points.

Which words start and end this way?

P starts the largest group, just ahead of S: examples include PROPOSE, PROPANE, and SHOPPER. The same third- and fourth-letter pattern has 218 matches when P replaces O in the third position, so the O-P combination makes a noticeably smaller set.

Final letters reveal another useful split. Words ending in S lead with 36, including PEOPLES and TROPICS; 22 end in D, as with STOPPED and DROPPED. The pattern also yields 18 words ending in R, including CHOPPER and LEOPARD.

Using 7-letter words with O third and P fourth

For 7-letter words with O third and P fourth, start by checking if your known letters complete a familiar form: -ed endings account for several recognizable matches, while -s endings cover the largest final-letter group. PROPOSE and PROPHET demonstrate that the middle pair also fits words with very different shapes.

The strongest scoring examples are less obvious than the everyday words. QUOPPED and ZOOPERY each score 21, while CHOPPED and WHOPPER score 17 apiece. Treat the overall count as a combined dictionary pool, not a promise that every entry appears in your game; only 14 matches are among the most common English words.

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