7-letter words with R as the 3rd letter and O as the 4th letter

7-letter words with R as the 3rd letter and O as the 4th letter number 267 across tournament dictionaries.

267 wordsTop pick THROUGHHighest score XEROXED 22

16 of 267 are everyday words (6%). Mostly rare words: great for Scrabble, tough for daily puzzles.

3rd letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

4th letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

With R in 3rd place, I is the most common 4th letter (366 words). The bar under each letter shows the size of its list.

Length
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15

Common words 16 · most-used first

THROUGH₁₄
CHRONIC₁₄
BOROUGH₁₃
MOROCCO₁₃
THRONES₁₀
STROKES₁₁
HEROINE₁₀
CORONER₉
SCROLLS₉
ACRONYM₁₄
THROATS₁₀
BAROQUE₁₈
HEROISM₁₂
SPROUTS₉
AEROBIC₁₁
COROLLA₉

All valid words 267

A to Z. Includes rare and Collins-only words. Linked tiles open the word's meaning, score and rhymes.

ABROACH₁₄
ABROADS₁₀
ABROOKE₁₃
ABROSIA₉
ACROBAT₁₁
ACROGEN₁₀
ACROMIA₁₁
ACRONIC₁₁
ACRONYM₁₄
ACROTER₉
ACROTIC₁₁
AEROBAT₉
AEROBES₉
AEROBIA₉
AEROBIC₁₁
AEROBUS₉
AEROGEL₈
AEROSAT₇
AEROSOL₇
AGROUND₉
APRONED₁₀
APROPOS₁₁
APROTIC₁₁
ARROBAS₉
ARROCES₉
ARROWED₁₁
ARROYOS₁₀
ARROZES₁₆
ATROPHY₁₅
ATROPIA₉
ATROPIN₉
AUROCHS₁₂
AURORAE₇
AURORAL₇
AURORAS₇
BAROCCO₁₃
BAROCKS₁₅
BAROLOS₉
BARONET₉
BARONGS₁₀
BARONNE₉
BAROQUE₁₈
BEROBED₁₂
BORONIA₉
BORONIC₁₁
BOROUGH₁₃
BYROADS₁₃
BYROOMS₁₄
CAROACH₁₄
CAROCHE₁₄
CAROLED₁₀
CAROLER₉
CAROLUS₉
CAROMED₁₂
CAROMEL₁₁
CAROTID₁₀
CAROTIN₉
CAROUSE₉
CEROONS₉
CEROTIC₁₁
CHROMAS₁₄
CHROMED₁₅
CHROMEL₁₄
CHROMES₁₄
CHROMIC₁₆
CHROMIS₁₄
CHROMOS₁₄
CHROMYL₁₇
CHRONIC₁₄
CHRONON₁₂
COROLLA₉
CORONAE₉
CORONAL₉
CORONAS₉
CORONEL₉
CORONER₉
CORONET₉
CORONIS₉
COROZOS₁₈
DAROGHA₁₂
ENROBED₁₀
ENROBER₉
ENROBES₉
ENROLLS₇
ENROOTS₇
ENROUGH₁₁
ENROUND₈
FUROLES₁₀
FURORES₁₀
GAROTED₉
GAROTES₈
GAROTTE₈
GAROUPA₁₀
GIROLLE₈
GIRONIC₁₀
GIRONNY₁₁
GIROSOL₈
GYROCAR₁₃
GYRONIC₁₃
GYRONNY₁₄
HAROSET₁₀
HEROICS₁₂
HEROINE₁₀
HEROINS₁₀
HEROISE₁₀
HEROISM₁₂
HEROIZE₁₉
HERONRY₁₃
HEROONS₁₀
HOROEKA₁₄
INROADS₈
JAROOLS₁₄
KAROROS₁₁
KAROSHI₁₄
KEROGEN₁₂
KORORAS₁₁
KOROWAI₁₄
MAROONS₉
MEROMES₁₁
MERONYM₁₄
MEROPIA₁₁
MEROPIC₁₃
MOROCCO₁₃
MORONIC₁₁
MOROSER₉
NEROLIS₇
PARODIC₁₂
PARODOI₁₀
PARODOS₁₀
PAROLED₁₀
PAROLEE₉
PAROLES₉
PARONYM₁₄
PAROTIC₁₁
PAROTID₁₀
PAROTIS₉
PEROGIE₁₀
PEROGIS₁₀
PERONES₉
PERORAL₉
PEROXID₁₇
PIROGEN₁₀
PIROGHI₁₃
PIROGIS₁₀
PIROGUE₁₀
PIROJKI₂₀
PIROQUE₁₈
POROSES₉
POROSIS₉
PYROGEN₁₃
PYROLAS₁₂
PYRONES₁₂
PYROPES₁₄
PYROPUS₁₄
PYROSES₁₂
PYROSIS₁₂
REROLLS₇
REROOFS₁₀
REROUTE₇
SARODES₈
SARONGS₈
SARONIC₉
SAROSES₇
SCROBES₁₁
SCROGGY₁₄
SCROLLS₉
SCROMED₁₂
SCROMES₁₁
SCROOCH₁₄
SCROOGE₁₀
SCROOPS₁₁
SCRORPS₁₁
SCROTAL₉
SCROTES₉
SCROTUM₁₁
SCROUGE₁₀
SCROWLE₁₂
SCROWLS₁₂
SCROYLE₁₂
SEROMAS₉
SEROONS₇
SEROPUS₉
SEROSAE₇
SEROSAL₇
SEROSAS₇
SEROVAR₁₀
SHROFFS₁₆
SHROOMS₁₂
SHROUDS₁₁
SHROUDY₁₄
SHROVED₁₄
SHROVES₁₃
SHROWED₁₄
SIROCCO₁₁
SIROSET₇
SOROBAN₉
SOROCHE₁₂
SORORAL₇
SOROSES₇
SOROSIS₇
SPROUTS₉
STROAMS₉
STROBED₁₀
STROBES₉
STROBIC₁₁
STROBIL₉
STRODLE₈
STROKED₁₂
STROKEN₁₁
STROKER₁₁
STROKES₁₁
STROLLS₇
STROMAL₉
STROMBS₁₁
STRONDS₈
STROOKE₁₁
STROPHE₁₂
STROPPY₁₄
STROUDS₈
STROUPS₉
STROUTS₇
STROWED₁₁
STROWER₁₀
STROYED₁₁
STROYER₁₀
THROATS₁₀
THROATY₁₃
THROMBI₁₄
THRONED₁₁
THRONES₁₀
THRONGS₁₁
THROUGH₁₄
THROWER₁₃
THROWES₁₃
TIRONIC₉
TOROIDS₈
TYRONES₁₀
TYRONIC₁₂
UNROBED₁₀
UNROBES₉
UNROLLS₇
UNROOFS₁₀
UNROOST₇
UNROOTS₇
UNROPED₁₀
UNROPES₉
UNROUGH₁₁
UNROUND₈
UNROVEN₁₀
UNROYAL₁₀
UPROARS₉
UPROLLS₉
UPROOTS₉
UPROUSE₉
VAROOMS₁₂
VERONAL₁₀
VIROIDS₁₁
VIROSES₁₀
VIROSIS₁₀
XEROMAS₁₆
XEROSES₁₄
XEROSIS₁₄
XEROTES₁₄
XEROTIC₁₆
XEROXED₂₂
XEROXES₂₁
ZEROING₁₇

Letters by positionIn 41% of these words the 7th letter is S.

1st letter

S25%
A13%
C12%

2nd letter

E18%
A16%
T10%

5th letter

N14%
S8%
B7%

6th letter

E29%
I16%
A10%

7th letter

S41%
E10%
D10%

Highest-scoring words

Scrabble and Words With Friends points, before board bonuses

Score spreadMost of these words score 9 in Scrabble; XEROXED tops the list with 22. Scores before board bonuses.

77 points: 24 words
8 points: 14 words
99 points: 60 words
10 points: 44 words
1111 points: 38 words
12 points: 23 words
1313 points: 15 words
14 points: 31 words
1515 points: 3 words
16 points: 5 words
1717 points: 3 words
18 points: 3 words
1919 points: 1 words
20 points: 1 words
2121 points: 1 words
22 points: 1 words

Word	Scrabble	Words With Friends	Dictionaries
XEROXED	22	22	All three
XEROXES	21	21	All three
PIROJKI	20	23	All three
HEROIZE	19	18	All three
BAROQUE	18	20	All three
PIROQUE	18	20	All three
COROZOS	18	19	Collins · NWL
ZEROING	17	19	All three
CHROMYL	17	18	All three
PEROXID	17	18	All three
CHROMIC	16	18	All three
SHROFFS	16	15	All three

The fixed middle pair creates a varied set, from familiar words such as THROUGH, CHRONIC, BOROUGH and STROKES to less familiar PIROJKI and COROZOS; Only 16 entries meet Word Puzzle Answers’s common-word frequency cutoff; That makes the pattern generous for word-game searches, but many matches are unlikely to come to mind without a letter rack or board clue.

The pattern at a glance

There are 267 matches across the tournament dictionaries counted here.
The most frequent first letter is S, with 66 matches beginning that way.
S is also the leading final letter, appearing at the end of 109 matches.
XEROXED is the highest scorer in the set, at 22 Scrabble points.

7-letter words with R as the 3rd letter and O as the 4th letter

The fixed pattern is _ _ R O _ _ _. THROUGH, THROATS and THROWER all start with THR before the O; CHRONIC and CHROMYL show a different consonant run around the same middle letters. These examples make the position rule easy to check: R occupies the third slot, and O immediately follows.

The number of matches changes sharply when you swap the fourth letter. With R in the third position, the I pattern has 366 matches and the A pattern has 339, compared with 267 for O. Switching just one known letter can therefore narrow a search, but it can also rule out a much larger group.

Some entries are recognizable in a particular context rather than everyday conversation: AEROBIC, CAROTID and ATROPHY offer clear meanings, while BAROQUE and MOROCCO are familiar names or terms. The set has 206 defined entries, so not every match comes with a definition.

Which matches score highest in Scrabble?

For 7-letter words with R as the 3rd letter and O as the 4th letter, XEROXED leads at 22 points, followed by XEROXES at 21 and PIROJKI at 20. HEROIZE scores 19; BAROQUE, PIROQUE and COROZOS each score 18. The X-heavy options bring the biggest totals, but a strong board placement still matters.

Dictionary coverage is not identical: Collins contains 260 matches, NWL2023 has 193 and ENABLE has 176. Those sets overlap, so the 267 total counts unique words appearing in at least one of them. Check your game’s active word list before playing an unfamiliar match, especially one you found for its score.

Questions people ask

Which letter most often starts these seven-letter words?

S is the most common first letter, starting 66 of the matches. A follows with 35, then C with 31 and P with 30. If your clue gives you a choice of starting letters, S is the strongest place to begin checking.

How many of these words are considered common?

Only 16 matches meet Word Puzzle Answers’s common-word frequency cutoff. The set includes familiar examples such as THROUGH and CHRONIC, but much of it is less common. A valid tournament entry may still be an unlikely everyday guess.

Do all 267 words appear in Collins, NWL2023 and ENABLE?

No. Collins includes 260 matching entries, NWL2023 includes 193, and ENABLE includes 176; these are overlapping sets, not separate groups to add together. The total counts unique matches found in at least one of the three dictionaries.

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7-letter words with R as the 3rd letter and O as the 4th letter

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7-letter words with R as the 3rd letter and O as the 4th letter

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