7 Letter Words
Pick a letter, or put letters in the seven boxes to fix their position. Common seven-letter words come first.
Letter in a fixed position Put a letter in a box to fix its position (2nd letter, middle letter …). Leave the others empty.
7,718 seven-letter words — 2,773 common
Showing the 150 most common of 7,718. Use the letters, the length and the boxes above to narrow the list, or turn on JavaScript to see every word.
Tap a word to see what it means. Word list: about 52,000 English words found in Wikipedia; common words are the ones seen most often. Meanings: WordNet 3.0 (Princeton University).
Popular 7-letter word searches
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Starts with am ba ca ch co de di gr ha in ma pa pr re se sh st th tr un
Ends with al ch de ed er es et ic ie le ly ne ng ns on rs st te ts us
Word List
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7 Letter Words is a free tool that lists seven-letter English words and lets you narrow them by first letter, letter position, vowels, and the letters you have. It runs in your browser with no sign-up, and nothing you type is sent anywhere. The list holds 7,718 seven-letter words, with common words shown first and rarer words in grey. Use it to find 7 letter words with a given start, a J, an A or I in the middle, or words built from a set of tiles for a word game. Tap any word for a short meaning, and copy or print the list in one click when you have what you need.
How to use the 7 Letter Words tool
- Open the page. The All chip shows every seven-letter word in the list.
- Click an A–Z chip to choose the first letter. For example, click S for words that start with S.
- Type a letter into any of the 7 position boxes to fix that position. The 4th box is the middle letter. Leave a box empty to allow any letter there.
- Use Starts with, Ends with, Contains or Leave out for more letter rules. Tick the checkbox next to Contains if the letters must stay together in that order.
- Type your tiles into Letters I have to use only those letters. Enter ? for a blank tile.
- Open Vowels and pick a rule, such as Exactly 2.
- Tick Common words only to hide the rarer words.
- Click Show Words. The count line appears first, then 300 words. Use Show more or Show all to see the rest.
- Click any word to see its part of speech and short definitions.
Sort by Most vowels first or by Common first or A–Z. Tick Show meanings to print a short definition under every word. Copy List puts one word per line on your clipboard, and Print List opens a clean sheet of up to 1,500 words. The search is saved in the address bar, so a bookmarked or shared link opens the same list. Printed lists are free for commercial use too, for example in KDP books or Etsy printables.
How many 7 letter words are there in this list?
The list contains 7,718 seven-letter words. The count line above the results shows how many match your current filters, so the number drops each time you add a rule.
Common words are the everyday words that appear in our frequency data from everyday English text. Tick Common words only to see that smaller set. Rarer words remain in the full list, shown in grey.
7 letter words with J
Only 97 seven-letter words contain the letter J, and 31 of them are common. Examples include project, justice, subject and journey.
To find words that start with J, click the J chip. To find words where J appears anywhere, type J into the Contains box. Combine it with other boxes to narrow the list further, such as a J in the first position plus a fixed vowel in the 4th box.
7 letter words with A or I in the middle (4th letter)
The middle letter of a seven-letter word is the 4th position, so type the letter into the 4th box. Each box holds one letter, so search for A and I one at a time.
Run the search once with A in the 4th box, copy that list, then run it again with I and copy that list too.
7 letter words that use only my letters (Scrabble rack)
Type your rack into Letters I have. The results then contain only words built from those letters. Enter ? for any blank tile, because a blank can stand for any letter.
A seven-letter word that uses all seven tiles from your rack scores a 50-point bonus in Scrabble. Every word on this page has seven letters, so with a full rack of seven every result is a bonus play.
7 letter words including these letters
Type the letters you need into the Contains box. The tool accepts up to 12 letters there. If the order matters, tick the checkbox so the letters must appear together and in that sequence.
Pair Contains with Leave out to remove letters you do not want. For instance, you can require an E and exclude every R.
Frequently asked questions
Are all these words valid in Scrabble?
The list is built from a public-domain English word list filtered to words seen in Wikipedia. It is not an official Scrabble dictionary, so check any unfamiliar word against the rules of your game before you play it.
What do the grey words mean?
Grey words are rarer words. They are still in the list, but they sit below the more common words. Tick Common words only if you want to hide them.
What is a blank tile in Letters I have?
A blank tile can stand for any letter. Type ? in the Letters I have box for each blank you hold, and the results will include words that use any letter in that spot.
Does the tool send my letters to a server?
No. The tool is free, runs in your browser, and does not require sign-up. Nothing you type is sent anywhere.
Why is a word I know missing from the results?
The list covers about 54,000 English words, so some words are not in it. Also check your filters, because a single fixed letter, a vowel rule or Common words only can hide a word.
Can I combine vowel rules with letter positions?
Yes. Set a position box, such as the 2nd letter, and a Vowels rule, such as Exactly 3, at the same time. Both filters apply to the same list.
How do I get the same list again later?
Copy the address bar link after you run a search. The search is saved there, so a bookmarked or shared link opens the same list.
Can I use the printed word lists for commercial purposes, such as Amazon KDP or Etsy?
Yes. Word lists you make here are free to use for any purpose, including classroom packs, KDP puzzle and activity books, Etsy printables and print-on-demand products, royalty-free and with no attribution needed. The only limit is that you may not copy the tool itself to run a competing service.
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About letter frequency in English
Letter frequency is the number of times letters of the alphabet appear on average in written language. Letter frequency analysis dates back to the Arab mathematician Al-Kindi (c. AD 801–873), who formally developed the method to break ciphers. Letter frequency analysis gained importance in Europe with the development of movable type in AD 1450, wherein one must estimate the amount of type required for each letterform. Linguists use letter frequency analysis as a rudimentary technique for language identification, where it is particularly effective as an indication of whether an unknown writing system is alphabetic, syllabic, or logographic.
The use of letter frequencies and frequency analysis plays a fundamental role in cryptograms and several word puzzle games, including hangman, Scrabble, Wordle and the television game show Wheel of Fortune. One of the earliest descriptions in classical literature of applying the knowledge of English letter frequency to solving a cryptogram is found in Edgar Allan Poe's famous story "The Gold-Bug", where the method is successfully applied to decipher a message giving the location of a treasure hidden by Captain Kidd.
Herbert S. Zim, in his classic introductory cryptography text Codes and Secret Writing, gives the English letter frequency sequence as "ETAON RISHD LFCMU GYPWB VKJXZQ", the most common letter pairs as "TH HE AN RE ER IN ON AT ND ST ES EN OF TE ED OR TI HI AS TO", and the most common doubled letters as "LL EE SS OO TT FF RR NN PP CC". Different ways of counting can produce somewhat different orders.
Letter frequencies also have a strong effect on the design of some keyboard layouts. The most frequent letters are placed on the home row of the Blickensderfer typewriter, the Dvorak keyboard layout, Colemak and other layouts optimized for common English typing, while the commonly used QWERTY layout was instead optimized for transcribing telegraphs.
Background
The frequency of letters in text has been studied for use in cryptanalysis, and frequency analysis in particular, dating back to the Arab mathematician al-Kindi (c. AD 801–873 ), who formally developed the method (the ciphers breakable by this technique go back at least to the Caesar cipher used by Julius Caesar, so this method could have been explored in classical times). Letter frequency analysis gained additional importance in Europe with the development of movable type in AD 1450, wherein one must estimate the amount of type required for each letterform, as evidenced by the variations in letter compartment size in typographer's type cases.
No exact letter frequency distribution underlies a given language, since all writers write slightly differently. However, most languages have a characteristic distribution which is strongly apparent in longer texts. Even language changes as extreme as from Old English to modern English (regarded as mutually unintelligible) show strong trends in related letter frequencies: over a small sample of Biblical passages, from most frequent to least frequent, of Old English compares to of modern English, with the most extreme differences concerning letterforms not shared.
Linotype machines for the English language assumed the letter order, from most to least common, to be based on the experience and custom of manual compositors. The equivalent for the French language was.
Arranging the alphabet in Morse into groups of letters that require equal amounts of time to transmit, and then sorting these groups in increasing order, yields. Letter frequency was used by other telegraph systems, such as the Murray Code.
Similar ideas are used in modern data-compression techniques such as Huffman coding.
Text adapted from the Wikipedia article “Letter frequency” (revision 1357626460, 2026-06-03), authors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Shortened: some sections and paragraphs were left out, and reference markers, images and templates were removed; wording is otherwise unchanged. This text remains available under the same licence.