5-Letter Words Ending With D — Wordle & Scrabble
Browse every 5-letter word ending with D — from past tenses to solid everyday nouns. Filter by the letters you know for Wordle, or sort by Scrabble score for your best play.
582 5-letter words · filter for Wordle & Scrabble · Scrabble scores
24 popular 5-letter words — filter above to search all 582.
Highest-scoring 5-letter words ending with D
| Word | Scrabble | Words With Friends |
|---|---|---|
| FAZED | 18 | 18 |
| FUZED | 18 | 19 |
| HAZED | 18 | 17 |
| JOKED | 17 | 19 |
| JUKED | 17 | 20 |
| MAZED | 17 | 18 |
| DAZED | 16 | 16 |
| DOZED | 16 | 16 |
Why do so many 5-letter words end in D?
Almost 600 five-letter words close with D, and two thirds of them are there for one reason: -ED, the ending English uses to put a verb in the past. Strip those away and what remains is a compact set of about 190 everyday words — BREAD, FIELD, WORLD, CHILD, SOUND. That split is the most useful thing to know about a 5-letter word ending with D.
Narrow the D list in three moves
Green in the last slot
Every result ends in D. Add the rest of what you know to Pattern — for example
_ou_d— to fix the word.Rule out the -ED forms
Drop E into Exclude and the past tenses vanish, leaving the compact set of true D-enders that puzzle answers are drawn from.
Score the play
Each word shows its Scrabble value, so you can pick the highest-scoring D word that still matches your clues.
D words for Wordle and Scrabble
Every list of five-letter D words is really two lists stacked together, and telling them apart is what turns a green D into a solved puzzle.
The Wordle angle. Roughly 390 of these words are -ED past tenses, and puzzle setters lean away from them for the same reason they avoid plurals: the answer would be a grammatical variant rather than a word in its own right. The practical trick is to exclude E and see what is left. The survivors are a short, familiar set — SOUND, ROUND, BREAD, FIELD, WORLD, CHILD, GUARD, BLOOD, THIRD, YIELD — and a green D in the last square points at one of them far more often than at ASKED or MOVED.
The Scrabble angle. D is a two-point tile, which puts it a step above the vowels and common consonants without being expensive to hold. It also hooks: adding a D to a verb already on the board can open a second word in the same move. For raw points, FIXED and WAXED reach sixteen by hiding an X behind the ending. When you want the best play from a full rack, the Scrabble word finder ranks it for you.
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From a rack, not a list?
This page browses every five-letter word ending in D. If you have a fixed set of tiles instead, drop them into the anagram solver or the word unscrambler and filter to length five to see only the D-ending words you can actually build from your letters.
Where do these words come from?
“An anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase, typically using all the original letters exactly once.”
— “Anagram,” Wikipedia
That rearranging is exactly what these tools do, and every result is checked against a public-domain word list, documented in full on our methodology page. Official tournament play uses different dictionaries, so always confirm against the one your game follows.
- Our word list. The public-domain ENABLE lexicon, merged for the word unscrambler with dwyl/english-words, released under the Unlicense.
- North America. The official authority is the NASPA Word List (NWL2023), maintained by NASPA and effective February 2024, with 196,601 words.
- Rest of the world. Tournament play uses Collins Scrabble Words (CSW24), published by Collins under WESPA, with 280,887 words.
5-letter words ending with D, answered.
How many 5-letter words end with D?
Just under 600 in this public-domain word list, which puts D fourth among endings behind S, E and Y. Two thirds of them are past-tense forms ending in -ED, which is the single biggest reason D is so common in the last square.
Are 5-letter words ending in D good Wordle answers?
The non-past-tense ones are. Around 390 of these words are simple -ED forms such as ASKED or MOVED, and puzzle answers tend to avoid them. That leaves roughly 190 words — BREAD, FIELD, WORLD, CHILD, SOUND, ROUND, GUARD, BLOOD, THIRD, YIELD — which is where a real answer almost always sits.
What is a good Wordle guess ending in D?
SOUND, BREAD and FIELD test common letters while fixing the last square. If Wordle has already given you a green D at the end, filter this page with the pattern <code>____d</code> plus whatever else you know.
Which 5-letter words ending in D score well in Scrabble?
The D is worth two points, a little above the one-point tiles, and the body of the word does the rest: FIXED and WAXED reach sixteen, JADED fourteen. Each word here shows its Scrabble score so you can sort for the biggest play.
How do I find D-ending words with certain letters?
This page is already limited to words that end in D. Put your green letters in Pattern such as <code>fi__d</code>, yellow letters in Contains and greys in Exclude, and the finder keeps only five-letter D words that still fit.