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7-letter words with W as the 3rd letter and S as the 6th letter

7-letter words with W third and S sixth: 30 tournament-dictionary matches, including JEWFISH, the top scorer at 23 points.

30 wordsTop pick LAWLESSHighest score JEWFISH 23

1 of 30 are everyday words (3%). Mostly rare words: great for Scrabble, tough for daily puzzles.

With W in 3rd place, E is the most common 6th letter (134 words). The bar under each letter shows the size of its list.

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Best words to play first 30 · most-used first

  • LAWLESS10
  • SAWDUST11
  • NEWNESS10
  • HAWKISH20
  • RAWNESS10
  • MAWKISH19
  • LOWPASS12
  • SAWFISH16
  • JAWLESS17
  • LOWNESS10
  • NOWNESS10
  • JEWFISH23
  • COWFISH18
  • LEWDEST11
  • BOWLESS12
  • FEWNESS13
  • COWIEST12
  • DEWIEST11
  • DEWLESS11
  • DOWIEST11
  • GAWKISH18
  • GOWDEST12
  • KEWLEST14
  • LOWBUSH15
  • LOWSEST10
  • TAWIEST10
  • TOWIEST10
  • TOWNISH13
  • VOWLESS13
  • WOWFEST16
All valid words 30

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

  • BOWLESS12
  • COWFISH18
  • COWIEST12
  • DEWIEST11
  • DEWLESS11
  • DOWIEST11
  • FEWNESS13
  • GAWKISH18
  • GOWDEST12
  • HAWKISH20
  • JAWLESS17
  • JEWFISH23
  • KEWLEST14
  • LAWLESS10
  • LEWDEST11
  • LOWBUSH15
  • LOWNESS10
  • LOWPASS12
  • LOWSEST10
  • MAWKISH19
  • NEWNESS10
  • NOWNESS10
  • RAWNESS10
  • SAWDUST11
  • SAWFISH16
  • TAWIEST10
  • TOWIEST10
  • TOWNISH13
  • VOWLESS13
  • WOWFEST16
Letters by positionIn 67% of these words the 5th letter is E.
1st letter
  1. L20%
  2. D10%
  3. T10%
2nd letter
  1. O47%
  2. A30%
  3. E23%
4th letter
  1. L20%
  2. N20%
  3. I17%
5th letter
  1. E67%
  2. I23%
  3. U7%
7th letter
  1. S37%
  2. T37%
  3. H27%

Highest-scoring words

Scrabble and Words With Friends points, before board bonuses
Score spreadMost of these words score 10 in Scrabble; JEWFISH tops the list with 23. Scores before board bonuses.
  1. 1010 points: 8 words
  2. 11 points: 5 words
  3. 1212 points: 4 words
  4. 13 points: 3 words
  5. 1414 points: 1 words
  6. 15 points: 1 words
  7. 1616 points: 2 words
  8. 17 points: 1 words
  9. 1818 points: 2 words
  10. 19 points: 1 words
  11. 2020 points: 1 words
  12. 21 points: 0 words
  13. 2222 points: 0 words
  14. 23 points: 1 words
WordScrabbleWords With FriendsDictionaries
JEWFISH2324All three
HAWKISH2018All three
MAWKISH1919All three
COWFISH1818All three
GAWKISH1818All three
JAWLESS1720Collins · NWL
SAWFISH1615All three
WOWFEST1616Collins only
LOWBUSH1517NWL only
KEWLEST1415Collins only
FEWNESS1314All three
TOWNISH1313All three

The pattern leaves a compact set: W sits in position three, S in position six, and only 30 words qualify. Familiar-looking options include lawless, sawdust, newness, and hawkish, but just one match counts as common by word frequency. Treat this as a precise pattern lookup, not a bank of everyday guesses.

At a glance: a compact W-and-S pattern

  • 30 words match the fixed W-third, S-sixth pattern across the tournament dictionaries.
  • Only 1 match falls in the common range; lawless and sawdust are recognizable examples, but neither is identified as that entry.
  • ENABLE includes 20 matches, compared with 28 in Collins and 23 in NWL2023.
  • JEWFISH leads the scoring examples at 23 points; HAWKISH follows at 20.
  • The final letters split evenly between S and T, with H as the only other ending.

Which words put W third and S sixth?

Start with words whose shapes are easy to check: lawless, sawdust, newness, rawness, and jawless all place W third and S sixth. The opening letters are not evenly spread: L begins 6 matches, while D and T begin 3 each. That makes the initial letter a useful quick filter when you already have another clue.

The endings offer another shortcut: exactly 11 matches end in S and 11 end in T; the remaining 8 end in H. Sawfish, cowfish, and lowbush show the H ending, while lewdest and dewiest illustrate T. These groups account for all 30 entries, so an incompatible final letter rules out the pattern.

How should you use this narrow pattern?

For 7-letter words with W third and S sixth, check both fixed tiles before testing a candidate against the rest of your rack or puzzle. The pattern with E in the sixth position has 134 matches, far more than this S version; a single letter can sharply change the search space.

Do not mistake a high score for an everyday word: JEWFISH scores 23 and HAWKISH scores 20, while the average score across the set is 13.3. Only 20 matches are defined, so unfamiliar forms are part of the search. Confirm a candidate in your game's dictionary before committing.

A quick check before you play

Tip

Lock W into the third slot and S into the sixth, then use the ending groups to narrow candidates: 11 end in S, 11 in T, and 8 in H.

Questions people ask

How many 7-letter words have W third and S sixth?
There are 30 matches in the tournament-dictionary count. That total combines words accepted by at least one of ENABLE, Collins, or NWL2023, so the dictionaries overlap rather than contributing separate, additive groups.
How many of these words are common?
Only 1 of the 30 matches falls within the common-word range measured by word frequency. The rest are less familiar, so use the fixed letter positions to narrow your search and check an unfamiliar candidate against your game's word list.
Which matching word scores the most in Scrabble?
JEWFISH is the highest-scoring listed match at 23 points before board bonuses. HAWKISH scores 20 and MAWKISH scores 19, so the strongest options lean on valuable letters rather than being especially common words.

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