7-letter words with P as the 1st letter and H as the 6th letter

This is a tight pattern, not a list of familiar everyday vocabulary: none of the matches falls among the most common English words. Some entries, including PANACHE and PREACHY, are recognizable; others are specialist terms or less familiar spellings. Check the exact word against your game's dictionary before playing it.

The P-first, H-sixth pattern at a glance

• 27 tournament-dictionary words have P in position one and H in position six.
• POOJAHs scores 19 points, ahead of PREACHY and PAUNCHY at 17 each.
• 12 matches end in S, making S the most frequent final letter.
• 24 of the 27 matches have definitions.
• Coverage differs by dictionary: 26 appear in Collins, 22 in NWL2023, and 20 in ENABLE.

How unusual is this P-and-H combination?

Only 27 words fit this exact seven-letter pattern. Keep the first and sixth positions fixed, and the first-letter comparison shows how narrow P is: S produces 81 matches, while B produces 28. P has just one fewer than B, but far fewer than S.

The final letter gives another useful clue: 12 matches end in S, six in E, and four in A. Test S first when the final square is unknown, then E or A. Just remember that a likely ending does not make every candidate familiar or accepted in every game.

Which matching words score well?

POOJAHs tops the Scrabble scoring list at 19 points, while PREACHY and PAUNCHY each score 17. PICACHO and PUNKAHs follow at 16. Those totals make the less obvious entries worth checking when a rack or board rewards a high-value letter.

PANACHE is easier to recognize than POOJAHS, but scores 14; only 24 matches have definitions.