6-letter words with B as the 1st letter and D as the 4th letter

Lock B into the opening slot and D into the fourth, and the pattern becomes B??D??. The resulting set mixes familiar words such as BRIDGE, BURDEN, and BUNDLE with less common choices. Endings are not evenly spread: E and R lead, while several other final letters appear only a few times.

The pattern at a glance

• The B-first, D-fourth pattern matches 82 six-letter words.
• BRIDGE, BORDER, and BURDEN are among the recognizable examples.
• The most frequent final letters are E with 19 words and R with 17.
• The set has 16 entries classed as common by word frequency.
• BAWDRY leads the scoring examples at 15 Scrabble points.

6-letter words with B as the 1st letter and D as the 4th letter

There are 82 matches for this exact letter-position pattern. That is fewer than the 112 words beginning with S and having D fourth, but more than the 67 beginning with C and having D fourth.

The final letter gives you a quick way to sort the candidates. E is the most common ending, followed by R; D and S each occur as the final letter in 14 words. N and Y appear four times apiece.

BRIDGE, BORDER, and BURDEN are easy anchors when you already know the pattern. Other familiar forms include BINDER, BANDIT, and BENDER, while the less familiar entries widen the tournament-dictionary choices.

Which B-and-D words score highest?

BAWDRY is the top scorer at 15 points, ahead of BUDDHA at 13. BOLDLY and BALDLY each score 12, so the strongest choices are not necessarily the words that come to mind first.

Dictionary coverage varies: 79 matches appear in Collins, compared with 63 in NWL2023 and 53 in ENABLE. A word accepted in one list may be absent from another, so check the word list used in your game before playing an unfamiliar entry.

Only 66 of the matches have definitions here, and just 16 count as common by frequency. Treat the familiar examples as a starting point, not a guarantee that every tournament-valid option will feel like everyday English.