7-letter words with Y as the 1st letter and R as the 4th letter

This pattern fixes two of seven positions: Y opens the word, while R sits fourth; only 10 tournament-dictionary entries fit, and none falls among the common-word group tracked here. The standouts include familiar-looking YEARNED and YTTRIUM alongside rarer forms such as YARROWS and YPERITE. Use the positions to screen candidates first, then check your game's dictionary: Collins accepts all 10, while ENABLE and NWL2023 each accept eight.

How many 7-letter words have Y first and R fourth?

• Exactly 10 tournament-dictionary words match the Y-first, R-fourth pattern.
• Six of the 10 entries have recorded definitions.
• YARROWS leads the tile-score ranking at 13; YTTRIUM, YPERITE, and YEarded score 12.
• Three words end in D and three end in S; just one ends in R.

Which words are easiest to spot?

YEARNED, YEAREND, and YEARNER share the opening YEAR, with R fixed in the fourth position. Their different endings make them easy to confuse when you are scanning quickly, so check the final three letters before choosing a match.

YARROWS tops the tile-score ranking at 13, while YTTRIUM, YPERITE, and YEarded each score 12. YARROWS is the sole entry above that 12-point group. The limitation is practical: none of these entries belongs to the common-word group tracked here, so a pattern match may still be an unfamiliar word.

How does this pattern compare with nearby letter pairs?

For 7-letter words with Y as the 1st letter and R as the 4th letter, the pool is unusually small beside its same-length sibling with S first and R fourth: that pattern has 341 matches. Keeping Y first but changing the fourth letter gives 27 matches with K, 24 with P, and 18 with L.

The same Y-first, R-fourth pattern has 12 matches at five letters and 10 at six letters. If the length is fixed, compare the seven-letter list with the neighboring letter-pair patterns before widening your search to every word that begins with Y.