7-letter words with P as the 2nd letter and L as the 6th letter

Letter positions do the filtering here: P must occupy slot two, and L must sit in slot six. The matches range from familiar choices such as APPEALS and SPARKLE to less common forms such as SPINDLY and SPECULA. Only five fall in the common-word band, so a dictionary match does not guarantee a word will come to mind quickly.

Pattern facts at a glance

• The pattern has 61 seven-letter matches across the tournament dictionaries.
• SPARKLE, APPEALS, and SPINDLE are examples that fit both fixed positions.
• S starts 33 matches, U starts 17, and A starts 8.
• Final E, S, and Y appear 20, 18, and 12 times respectively.
• Five matches rank among the commonest English words by frequency.

Which starting and ending letters dominate?

S is the clear leader: it begins 33 of the 61 matches, nearly twice U’s 17. A starts 8, while E and O appear only 2 and 1 times. That makes SPARKLE, SPINDLE, and SPARKLY natural candidates when the first letter is still open, though an S guess covers a large share of this pattern.

Final E, S, and Y account for 50 matches together. APPEALS and SPINDLE show the common E ending; SPIRALS ends in S, while SPARKLY ends in Y. The remaining endings are much thinner: A appears 5 times, D and L 2 times each, and I and T once each.

How do scores and dictionary coverage compare?

SPATZLE reaches 18 points, while SPARKLY and UPCYCLE each score 16. SPECKLE and SPACKLE are close behind at 15 apiece. These are tile-score comparisons, not a ranking of everyday usefulness: only five words in the full set are common by frequency.

Dictionary coverage differs: Collins includes 58 matches, NWL2023 includes 52, and ENABLE includes 48. The 61-word total counts entries found in at least one of those tournament lists, so not every game will accept every match. Check your game’s word list before relying on an unfamiliar form.

Changing only the sixth letter gives a much larger set with E: 235 matches, compared with 69 for N and 62 for I. The 7-letter words with P as the 2nd letter and L as the 6th letter are therefore a narrow slice of the other P-second patterns.