7-letter words with P as the 1st letter and T as the 5th letter

Only 18 of these matches rank among the top 25,000 English words by frequency, so the pattern mixes familiar words with tournament-list rarities. PLASTIC, PAINTED, and POINTER are easy to recognize; POSTTAX and PHRATRY are less likely to come to mind. Dictionary coverage is uneven: Collins has 129 matches, NWL2023 has 97, and ENABLE has 91.

The P-and-T pattern at a glance

• Exactly 130 tournament-dictionary words have P first and T fifth.
• Only 18 matches rank among the top 25,000 English words by frequency.
• Collins lists 129 matches; NWL2023 lists 97 and ENABLE lists 91.
• R is the most frequent final letter, appearing in 29 matches; D follows with 25.
• POSTTAX leads the score ranking at 16 points.

How many 7-letter words have P first and T fifth?

The pattern returns 130 words, well below the 317 matches for S in the first position with T fifth. Changing only the fifth letter makes a bigger difference: P with I fifth returns 585 matches, while P with E fifth returns 344. T is a tighter filter than either vowel.

PAINTED, PLANTED, and PRINTED are familiar fits; PRINTER and POINTER end in R. If your puzzle gives a final letter, that last position can cut down the 130 candidates quickly.

R ends 29 matches, D ends 25, and S ends 23. Together, those three endings account for 77 words. The remaining matches end in C, E, L, A, or M, so an unusual final letter can narrow the search even further.

Which 7-letter words with P first and T fifth score highest?

POSTTAX scores 16 points, the highest total among these matches. PHRATRY scores 15; PHANTOM and PYRETIC score 14. POSTTAX wins on tile values, though its spelling is much less familiar than PLASTIC or POINTER.

Collins includes 129 matches, compared with 91 in ENABLE, a 38-entry gap. That difference matters most for unfamiliar plays such as POSTTAX and PHRATRY. Changing the fifth letter to I expands the matching set to 585 words.

Among 7-letter words with P first and T fifth, recognizable options sit alongside obscure high scorers. For a more familiar choice, PAINTED and PRINTED are clear examples; for a rack-score target, POSTTAX tops the set at 16.