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

Lock R into the opening slot and T into the fifth, and the pattern narrows to a focused set of playable words; Familiar examples include RELATED, REACTOR and ROASTED, while higher-scoring choices such as ROZETED are much less everyday; The results span three major tournament dictionaries, but their counts differ, so check your game’s word list before relying on a rare entry.

How many 7-letter words with R first and T fifth are there?

• There are 97 seven-letter matches with R first and T fifth.
• Collins includes 95 matches; NWL2023 includes 76, and ENABLE includes 72.
• Just 17 matches meet the common-word frequency cutoff.
• A definition is available for 74 of the entries.
• The average tile score is 9.3 points.

Which endings appear most often?

D is the most frequent final letter, with 26 matches; R follows with 22, and S has 19. RELATED, ROASTED and REACTED finish with D, while REACTOR ends in R and RELATES ends in S. Those examples make the final slot a useful second filter once R and T are fixed.

The less common recorded endings are Y (5), E and H (4 each), and L and P (3 each). That spread is a practical solving clue: test D, R or S first, then branch to the smaller groups if those letters are ruled out.

Scoring 7-letter words with R first and T fifth

ROZETED and ROZITED lead the Scrabble scores at 17 points apiece. REWATCH scores 15, while RIGHTLY, REMATCH, REPATCH and RECATCH each score 14. The eye-catching leaders are not the easiest words to recognize; REWATCH is a more familiar high-value option.

Only 17 of the 97 entries count as common, so this pattern contains many specialist or uncommon choices. Dictionary coverage also varies sharply: Collins has 95 matches, compared with 76 in NWL2023 and 72 in ENABLE. A word accepted in one game may not appear in another.