7-letter words with P as the 2nd letter and S as the 4th letter

With P fixed in position two and S in position four, the pattern narrows sharply: only 13 seven-letter entries qualify across tournament word lists. Familiar options include episode, apostle, epistle, and opossum, while less everyday forms such as apishly and episcia also fit. Their letter slots, not a shared meaning, unite them.

The pattern at a glance

• The exact P-second, S-fourth pattern has 13 tournament-dictionary matches.
• Collins includes all 13 matches; ENABLE has 9 and NWL2023 has 10.
• Episode, apostle, epistle, and opossum are examples that fit the fixed slots.
• Apishly scores 15 points, the top score among these words.
• Only 2 entries count as common by frequency, while 12 have definitions.

7-letter words with P as the 2nd letter and S as the 4th letter

The first letters split evenly between E and S, with 4 matches each; A begins 3, and O begins 2. That gives you four starting-letter groups to check when the middle slots are already known. Episode and epistle belong to the E group, while apostle starts with A.

The final letter is more concentrated: 5 words end in E, and 2 end in C. The other six endings occur once each: A, D, L, M, S, and Y. If your last letter is E, this pattern has more candidates than any other ending.

Which matching words score highest?

Apishly leads at 15 points. Spasmic follows with 13, while spasmed and sposhes each score 12. Opossum, episcia, episome, and opuscle form the 11-point group, so apishly stands apart from the rest.

This is a narrow pattern, not a ready-made everyday vocabulary list: only 2 matches meet the common-word frequency measure. The list mixes familiar words such as episode with rarer forms such as episcia. In a board game, check your game's word list once; dictionary coverage differs, with ENABLE accepting fewer matches than Collins.