7-letter words with T as the 2nd letter and E as the 4th letter

The pattern is _T_E___: T sits in position two, E in position four, and five letters remain open. The matches include familiar words such as attempt and streets, alongside less familiar entries like atheize. S dominates the opening position, while D and S tie as the most common final letters.

The pattern at a glance

• 59 entries fit the seven-letter pattern in at least one tournament dictionary.
• 38 begin with S; 12 begin with A, making S the clear starting-letter cluster.
• 11 entries rank among the top 25,000 English words by wordfreq frequency.
• Atheize leads the listed Scrabble scores at 19 points; streaky follows at 14.

7-letter words with T as the 2nd letter and E as the 4th letter

Start with familiar clusters rather than scanning all 59 entries. Attempt, streets, stretch, and streams show how often this pattern lands inside recognizable words. Utterly, atheist, and attends offer different combinations.

With 38 S-initial matches, that branch is the strongest place to search when your board already fixes T and E.

Ending letters offer another quick filter: D and S tie at 12 words each, followed by E and R at six each. Streets ends in S, while stretch ends in H. Sort by the final letter when the pattern still leaves too many choices, but remember that a common ending does not make every candidate a common word.

Which matches score well, and where is the catch?

Atheize tops the listed Scrabble scores at 19 points, but more recognizable options score less: streaky gets 14, strewth 13, and stretch 12. Atheism, steeply, etheric, streamy, steeked, and sthenic also score 12. For a playable move, confirm the exact word in your game's dictionary instead of choosing by score alone.

Dictionary coverage varies: Collins includes 58 matches, NWL2023 has 42, and ENABLE has 39, out of 59 total. Those sets overlap, so the counts are not separate piles to add together. Only 11 matches are common by the frequency measure; unusual forms such as atheize and strewth make this pattern less dependable for everyday vocabulary than its familiar examples suggest.