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

There are 26 7-letter words with W as the 3rd letter and T as the 6th letter, including REWRITE, TOWPATH, and THWARTS.

26 wordsTop pick REWRITEHighest score TOWPATH 15

1 of 26 are everyday words (4%). 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 26 · most-used first

  • REWRITE10
  • REWROTE10
  • TOWPATH15
  • THWARTS13
  • THWAITE13
  • COWROTE12
  • COWPATS14
  • UNWRITE10
  • DEWITTS11
  • UNWORTH13
  • COWRITE12
  • ABWATTS12
  • BOWGETS13
  • BOWPOTS14
  • DOWSETS11
  • FEWMETS15
  • HOWLETS13
  • MAWMETS14
  • SAWPITS12
  • TEWARTS10
  • TEWHITS13
  • UMWELTS12
  • UNWHITE13
  • UNWITTY13
  • UNWROTE10
  • UPWAFTS15
All valid words 26

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

  • ABWATTS12
  • BOWGETS13
  • BOWPOTS14
  • COWPATS14
  • COWRITE12
  • COWROTE12
  • DEWITTS11
  • DOWSETS11
  • FEWMETS15
  • HOWLETS13
  • MAWMETS14
  • REWRITE10
  • REWROTE10
  • SAWPITS12
  • TEWARTS10
  • TEWHITS13
  • THWAITE13
  • THWARTS13
  • TOWPATH15
  • UMWELTS12
  • UNWHITE13
  • UNWITTY13
  • UNWORTH13
  • UNWRITE10
  • UNWROTE10
  • UPWAFTS15
Letters by positionIn 58% of these words the 7th letter is S.
1st letter
  1. U27%
  2. T19%
  3. C12%
2nd letter
  1. O31%
  2. E23%
  3. N19%
4th letter
  1. R23%
  2. A19%
  3. P15%
5th letter
  1. I27%
  2. E19%
  3. O15%
7th letter
  1. S58%
  2. E31%
  3. H8%

Highest-scoring words

Scrabble and Words With Friends points, before board bonuses
Score spreadMost of these words score 13 in Scrabble; TOWPATH tops the list with 15. Scores before board bonuses.
  1. 1010 points: 5 words
  2. 11 points: 2 words
  3. 1212 points: 5 words
  4. 13 points: 8 words
  5. 1414 points: 3 words
  6. 15 points: 3 words
WordScrabbleWords With FriendsDictionaries
TOWPATH1515All three
UPWAFTS1517All three
FEWMETS1516Collins only
COWPATS1416All three
BOWPOTS1416All three
MAWMETS1416Collins only
THWARTS1312All three
THWAITE1312Collins only
UNWORTH1314Collins only
HOWLETS1313All three
UNWHITE1314All three
BOWGETS1315Collins only

This fixed pattern is selective: only one matching word is common by Word Puzzle Answers’s frequency measure. Seven entries begin with U, while endings cluster around S and E. The familiar REWRITE sits alongside less everyday finds such as FEWMETS, so the pattern is easier to search than to guess from memory.

The pattern at a glance

  • Exactly 26 seven-letter entries match the W-third, T-sixth pattern.
  • Collins lists 26 matches; ENABLE and NWL2023 each list 12.
  • Only one match counts as common by Word Puzzle Answers’s frequency measure.
  • TOWPATH, UPWAFTS, and FEWMETS top the score list at 15 points each.

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

The letter frame is _ _ W _ _ T _. The first letters are notably uneven: U leads with seven words, T follows with five, and C appears three times. That gives you a useful search order when the opening letters are still unknown: check U and T before trying rarer starts.

The endings narrow the options further. S closes 15 entries and E closes eight, while H and Y are less frequent endings. REWRITE, REWROTE, COWROTE, and COWRITE show one recognizable cluster; THWARTS and TOWPATH offer more familiar alternatives with very different starts.

Which matching words score highest?

TOWPATH, UPWAFTS, and FEWMETS each score 15 points, ahead of COWPATS, BOWPOTS, and MAWMETS at 14. THWARTS and THWAITE score 13. The average score is 12.4, so the top entries stand out without making every word in the pattern a premium scorer.

The 7-letter words with W as the 3rd letter and T as the 6th letter do not all share the same tournament coverage: Collins has 26 matches, compared with 12 in each of ENABLE and NWL2023. That is a real limitation for play. Check your game’s dictionary before relying on an unfamiliar entry, especially one outside the more recognizable examples.

Questions people ask

Which words in this pattern start with U?
Seven matching words start with U. UNWRITE, UNWORTH, UNWHITE, and UNWITTY are examples; the rest of the U group is less familiar. If you know the first letter is U, keep the W in position three and T in position six fixed while checking the remaining slots.
What are the highest-scoring words with W third and T sixth?
TOWPATH, UPWAFTS, and FEWMETS each score 15 points. COWPATS, BOWPOTS, and MAWMETS follow at 14 points apiece. The top scores come from several different starting letters, so the pattern alone does not point to a single scoring choice.
How many of these words end in S?
Fifteen of the 26 matching words end in S, making S the most frequent final letter by a clear margin. E is next with eight words. When the final tile is unknown, testing S before E is a sensible way to narrow this particular pattern.

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