7-letter words with R as the 2nd letter and S as the 6th letter

The pattern fixes R in position two and S in position six, leaving four letters open; familiar matches include PROCESS, PROMISE, PROTEST, and PRECISE; The full set is much broader than those recognizable examples, but only 8 entries fall among the 25,000 most frequent English words; Expect a mix of everyday vocabulary and less familiar tournament words.

7-letter words with R second and S sixth at a glance

• There are 87 matches accepted by at least one of the tournament dictionaries counted here.
• Collins includes 85 matches, NWL2023 includes 68, and ENABLE includes 59; those totals overlap.
• Only 8 matches rank among the 25,000 most frequent English words, so many entries are obscure.
• PROCESS, PROMISE, and PROTEST show three familiar ways the fixed letters can fit.
• BRUXISM scores 18 points, ahead of TRICKSY at 16.

Which starting and ending letters are most common?

P leads the starting letters with 24 matches. A and B each start 11, while G starts 8; familiar P examples include PROCESS, PROMISE, PROTEST, and PRECISE. That concentration makes P a strong place to begin when you are narrowing a blank pattern, but the list is not limited to P words.

T is the most common final letter, with 29 matches, followed by E with 21. PROTEST ends in T, while PROMISE ends in E. S itself ends 13 entries, so a word with S in the sixth position does not usually finish with another S.

The second-letter R pattern is comparatively tight: the matching S-sixth list has 87 words, while changing the second letter to A produces 317. Keep the sixth-letter constraint fixed when comparing neighboring patterns; relaxing both positions at once gives you a much less targeted search.

Which matches score highest in Scrabble?