7-letter words with T as the 1st letter and A as the 4th letter

The pattern is T _ _ A _ _ _: keep T fixed at the start and A in the fourth slot while testing the remaining letters. Familiar matches include totally, treated, tenants, and treason, but just 12 of the 132 words fall among the most common English words. The list spans tournament dictionaries, so game acceptance depends on your chosen lexicon.

How many 7-letter words have T first and A fourth?

• Exactly 132 tournament-dictionary words match T _ _ A _ _ _.
• Collins includes 129 matches, compared with 93 in NWL2023 and 89 in ENABLE.
• Final S is the leading ending: 45 words finish with S, versus 18 ending in E.
• Only 12 entries rank among the 25,000 most frequent English words.

Familiar matches and top tile scores

Everyday-looking choices sit beside specialist vocabulary. Totally and treated are easy to recognize, while theatre and theater show two spellings in the same pattern; tobacco and tenants give the middle letters very different shapes. Treason, tyranny, and tenancy add more familiar routes through the fixed T-and-A frame; seven letters do not mean seven equally familiar choices.

Scores shift sharply toward less familiar entries. THWACKS, TAXABLY, THIAZIN, and THIAZOL each score 19, the top figure here; TOPAZES follows at 18, and TOKAMAK reaches 17. Those are tile scores, not a guarantee of a playable word in every game: compare each entry with the dictionary your match uses.

How selective is the fourth-letter A?

The neighboring seven-letter pattern with S first and A fourth has 265 matches, almost twice T's 132; T is less crowded still when A moves: the T-first, T-fourth pattern has 192 words, while the T-first, N-fourth pattern has 146. Those comparisons make the fixed fourth letter more selective than the starting T.

Do not treat the 132 as a list of everyday options: only 12 qualify as common; for a puzzle clue, lock in the two known positions, then use the remaining five blanks to screen candidates such as totally or treason. The length-and-position constraint narrows the search; it does not establish meaning or game validity; check your game's dictionary before playing an unfamiliar entry. Trust fixed positions before a familiar prefix.