On this page, you will find a list of all 34,342 seven-letter words in the English language, which are especially important for the game of Scrabble. The ability to unscramble 7-letter anagrams leads to bingo, so make sure you use our WordsFinder to get the most out of this extensive list of words.
List of all 7-letter words in English
There are 34,342 words with 7 letters in English, accounting for 12.30% of all words in the dictionary. 7-letter words are the fourth most numerous group in English, accounting for 6% of all words used during everyday communication.
In the following sections, you will find a detailed breakdown of the most common letters in 7-letter words. To get the most out of these words for your favorite word game, use our WordFinder tool, which will give you a list of all possible words you can use in games like Worfeud, Word Connect, Word Chums, and many others.
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- List of all 7-letter words in the English language
- Most common letters in 7-letter words
- Most common starting letters in 7-letter words
- Most common ending letters in 7-letter words
- Most commonly used 7-letter words in English
- 7-letter anagrams list
What is the most common letter in 7-letter words?
- Among 34,342 words with 7 letters, the letter E appears in 22,217 of them. This means that 64.69% of 7-letter words contain the letter E.
- The letter S is the only other letter that appears in more than half of all 7-letter words, with 18,695 appearances.
- Next in line are two vowels – I, appearing in 47.62% of words with 7 letters, and A, appearing in 46.83%.
- On the other side, only 1.21% of 7-letter words contain the letter Q, making it the least common letter in this group.
- After Q, the next rarest letters in 7-letter words are J (1.95% of words), X (2.06% of words), Z (2.91%), and V, which is contained in 5.76% of all 7-letter words.
Letter | 7-letter words containing | % of 7-letter words containing |
E | 22,217 | 64.69% |
S | 18,695 | 54.44% |
I | 16,354 | 47.62% |
A | 16,083 | 46.83% |
R | 15,138 | 44.08% |
N | 12,790 | 37.24% |
O | 12,019 | 35.00% |
T | 11,640 | 33.89% |
L | 11,256 | 32.78% |
D | 8,691 | 25.31% |
U | 8,494 | 24.73% |
C | 7,680 | 22.36% |
G | 6,931 | 20.18% |
M | 6,307 | 18.37% |
P | 6,273 | 18.27% |
H | 5,668 | 16.50% |
B | 4,965 | 14.46% |
Y | 3,773 | 10.99% |
K | 3,464 | 10.09% |
F | 3,047 | 8.87% |
W | 2,737 | 7.97% |
V | 1,977 | 5.76% |
Z | 1,001 | 2.91% |
X | 708 | 2.06% |
J | 670 | 1.95% |
Q | 414 | 1.21% |
Which are the most common starting letters in 7-letter words?
- Every ninth word with 7 letters starts with the letter S, making it the most common starting letter in 7-letter words.
- 8.35% of 7-letter words start with the letter C, the second most common letter in this group.
- The next in line are P (7.71% of words start with this letter), B (7.11% of words), T (5.90% of words), R and M (5.53% of words each).
- Together, these 7 letters account for more than 50% of all starting letters in 7-letter words.
- Only 26 words with 7 letters, 0.08% of them, start with the letter X. This is the least common starting letter among 7-letter words.
- 0.52% of 7-letter letters start with the letter Y, 0.53% start with Q, 0.60% start with Z, and 1.32% of 7-letter words start with the letter J.
Letter | 7-letter words starting with | % of 7-letter words starting with |
S | 4,006 | 11.67% |
C | 2,869 | 8.35% |
P | 2,648 | 7.71% |
B | 2,440 | 7.11% |
T | 2,027 | 5.90% |
R | 1,898 | 5.53% |
M | 1,898 | 5.53% |
A | 1,828 | 5.32% |
D | 1,827 | 5.32% |
F | 1,488 | 4.33% |
G | 1,448 | 4.22% |
H | 1,227 | 3.57% |
E | 1,201 | 3.50% |
L | 1,192 | 3.47% |
W | 1,010 | 2.94% |
U | 881 | 2.57% |
O | 862 | 2.51% |
N | 694 | 2.02% |
I | 669 | 1.95% |
K | 607 | 1.77% |
V | 575 | 1.67% |
J | 454 | 1.32% |
Z | 207 | 0.60% |
Q | 181 | 0.53% |
Y | 179 | 0.52% |
X | 26 | 0.08% |
The most common ending letters in 7-letter words
- More than one-third of all 7-letter words end with the letter S, which makes it the most common ending letter in this group.
- Around 10.57% of all words with 7 letters end with D and E, 8.39% of them end with the letter R, and 6.82% end with G.
- More than 70% of all 7-letter words end with one of the above-mentioned letters.
- On the other hand, there are no 7-letter words ending in V.
- Only 1 word with 7 letters end with the letter J, only 3 of them end with Q, 0.08% end with Z, and 0.10% of 7-letter words end with the letter B.
Letter | 7-letter words ending with | % of 7-letter words ending with |
S | 11,566 | 33.68% |
D | 3,631 | 10.57% |
E | 3,630 | 10.57% |
R | 2,882 | 8.39% |
G | 2,341 | 6.82% |
T | 1,873 | 5.45% |
Y | 1,822 | 5.31% |
N | 1,476 | 4.30% |
L | 999 | 2.91% |
A | 981 | 2.86% |
H | 574 | 1.67% |
M | 478 | 1.39% |
C | 476 | 1.39% |
K | 422 | 1.23% |
O | 284 | 0.83% |
I | 275 | 0.80% |
P | 209 | 0.61% |
X | 115 | 0.33% |
W | 103 | 0.30% |
F | 77 | 0.22% |
U | 61 | 0.18% |
B | 35 | 0.10% |
Z | 28 | 0.08% |
Q | 3 | 0.01% |
V | 1 | 0.00% |
J | 0 | 0.00% |
What are the most common 7-letter words in the English language?
7-letter words account for 12.30% of all words in the English language, but the frequency of their use is not as high as their volume is. Only 6.36% of all words used in everyday communication are 7-letter words.
- The verb INCLUDE is the most frequently used 7-letter word. It accounts for 0.01% of all words used during the day and around 1.57% of all 7-letter words used.
- The adposition BETWEEN is 1.55% of all 7-letter words used in everyday communication.
- Next in line are BECAUSE (1.35% of all 7-letter words used), THROUGH (1.34%), COUNTRY (1.13%), and HOWEVER (1.13%).
- More than 62% of all 7-letter words are either nouns or proper nouns, 20.13% of them are verbs, 12.79% are adjectives, and 3.11% are adverbs. These main word types account for more than 98% of all words with 7 letters.
- In terms of frequency, nouns and proper nouns are the most frequently used 7-letter words (48.92%), followed by verbs (25.06%), adjectives (12.03%), and adpositions (5.45%).
Word | Word type | Frequency | Frequency among 7-letter words |
INCLUDE | Verb | 0.10% | 1.57% |
BETWEEN | Adposition | 0.10% | 1.55% |
BECAUSE | Subordinating conjunction | 0.09% | 1.35% |
THROUGH | Adposition | 0.09% | 1.34% |
COUNTRY | Noun | 0.07% | 1.13% |
HOWEVER | Adverb | 0.07% | 1.13% |
SERVICE | Noun | 0.06% | 0.96% |
AGAINST | Adposition | 0.05% | 0.86% |
ANOTHER | Determiner | 0.05% | 0.83% |
SEVERAL | Adjective | 0.05% | 0.82% |
What are the most frequently used 7-letter anagrams?
43.54% of all anagrams searched on the internet are 7-letter words. Additionally, 49.78% of all Google searches to unscramble words are with 7-letter words. Unscrambling words with 7 letters is especially useful for Scrabble if you’re looking to hit that bingo.
- QUARTER is the most searched-for anagram on the internet, with over 3,000 searches per month.
- It is followed by DICTION (2,160 monthly searches), CHRONIC (2,130 searches), SERVICE (2,010), and ANGULAR (1,960).
- 9 out of 10 and 17 out of 20 most-searched-for anagrams are 7-letter words.
Rank | Word/phrase | Monthly searches |
1 | QUARTER | 3,010 |
2 | DICTION | 2,160 |
3 | CHRONIC | 2,130 |
4 | SERVICE | 2,010 |
5 | ANGULAR | 1,960 |
6 | SCIENCE | 1,930 |
7 | RACCOON | 1,840 |
8 | PERCENT | 1,810 |
9 | GRADUAL | 1,730 |
10 | GULLIES | 1,720 |
11 | NATURAL | 1,610 |
12 | HANDFUL | 1,560 |
13 | SAFFRON | 1,520 |
14 | CANTEEN | 1,460 |