7-letter words with S as the 2nd letter and T as the 3rd letter

With S fixed in slot two and T in slot three, the pattern is _ST____, and the tournament-dictionary pool has 61 matches. ESTATES, ESTUARY, and OSTRICH are easy anchors, while technical entries such as ISTHMIC and ESTRONE make the deeper end less familiar. Just 2 meet our common-word frequency cutoff.

The _ST____ pattern at a glance

• The pattern matches 61 seven-letter words across the tournament dictionaries.
• Only 2 entries meet our common-word frequency cutoff.
• ISTHMIC leads the score list at 14; OSTMARK and ASTHENY each score 13.
• 18 words end in S; E is the next most common ending, with 11.
• ESTATES, ESTUARY, OSTRICH, and ISTHMUS are among the recognizable examples.

Which letters start these 7-letter matches?

A, E, and O dominate the opening slot: 25 words begin with A, 19 with E, and 13 with O. Together, those starts account for 57 of the 61 matches.

ASTOUND, ESTATES, and OSTRICH show how the first letter changes while ST stays fixed. The remaining openings are I, with 3 words, and U, with just 1.

For a puzzle, try the crowded A, E, and O branches before spending a guess on U. That one-word branch is a much narrower possibility.

7-letter words with S as the 2nd letter and T as the 3rd letter

ISTHMIC scores 14 points, ahead of OSTMARK and ASTHENY at 13. OSTRICH, ISTHMUS, ESTRICH, and ASTHMAS each score 12, while ESTUARY scores 10.

For 7-letter words with S as the 2nd letter and T as the 3rd letter, the top score is not the most familiar example. OSTRICH is recognizable, but its 12 points do not beat the less familiar ISTHMIC. The average score across the group is 8.7.

The game dictionaries do not share an identical pool: Collins includes 60 matches, NWL2023 includes 39, and ENABLE includes 37. Check your game's word list before playing an unfamiliar entry; a match to the pattern does not guarantee acceptance.