5-letter words with I as the 3rd letter and D as the 4th letter

Everything here matches __ID__, and the ending splits sharply: 27 words close with S and 18 with E, which covers 45 of the 53 between them. The S group is all plurals and verbs, while the E group is the silent-e set that includes PRIDE, SLIDE, BRIDE, GUIDE and OXIDE. Eleven of the 53 are Wordle answers.

The __ID_ list at a glance

• 53 five-letter words place I in the third slot and D in the fourth.
• 27 close with S and 18 with E; the other 8 split across O, A and Y.
• A starts 9 of them, and G and S start 6 each.
• Eleven are Wordle answers, among them ABIDE, ASIDE, GUIDE, OXIDE and PRIDE.
• ZAIDY tops the scores at 18 points, well clear of the 15-point group below it.

The silent-e half of the list

Eighteen words finish in E, and nearly all of them hide a long vowel behind the silent letter. PRIDE, SLIDE, BRIDE, GLIDE, CHIDE and SNIDE all end in IDE, while ABIDE, OXIDE and AZIDE add a vowel before it. GUIDE is the odd one out, since its U is silent as well.

Words ending in S run the other way: they are plural or verb forms of familiar stems. RAIDS, MAIDS, GRIDS, VOIDS, SKIDS and QUIDS drop straight onto a four-letter base, and ACIDS and OXIDS show the same build behind a C.

Which __ID_ words score best in Scrabble?

ZAIDY reaches 18, then AZIDE, QUIDS, ZAIDA, AZIDO and QAIDS all land on 15. The Z and Q tiles drive those totals, and only OXIDE, EJIDO and OXIDS break into the next tier at 13.

Collins holds 49 of the 53 entries and NWL2023 lists 41, so a few will not survive a stricter game; verify the list your game accepts before playing a rare one. Ten of the 53 carry no definition, which is a fair warning that the list runs past everyday speech.