6-letter words with D as the 1st letter and B as the 3rd letter

The pattern fixes D first and B third, so four letters stay open in the middle and at the end. Debunk, debtor, dabble and dubbed are the sort of everyday words the list holds, though only 5 of the 46 sit inside the top 25,000 English words by frequency. Collins carries 45 of them, NWL2023 35 and ENABLE 31, so a word that works in one game can be rejected by another.

The D-and-B pattern at a glance

• 46 six-letter matches, with Collins holding 45, NWL2023 35 and ENABLE 31.
• Five sit in the top 25,000 English words by frequency; 42 carry a dictionary definition.
• Debate, debris, debtor and dabble are the easiest entries to picture on a board.
• Seventeen matches end in S, and 15 of those are plain plurals of five-letter words.
• Dybbuk tops the Scrabble scores on 18, with dibbuk next on 15.

How many six-letter words start with D and put B third?

E is the overwhelming second letter: 23 of the 46 open DEB-, from debate and debunk to debits and debone. DOB- is a distant second on 10 entries such as dobson and dobber, and A, I and U share four each with Y on just one.

Keep the frame D _ B _ _ _ intact, because the first and third tiles are locked, so a candidate has to satisfy only four unknowns. That is why the list stays short at 46 while its D-R cousin reaches 97.

Which D-B matches score best in Scrabble?

Dybbuk leads on 18 and dibbuk follows on 15, the only two entries above 13. Debunk, debark and debeak share 13, and five more matches tie on 12, including the doubled forms dubbed, dabbed and dibbed.

That 10.5-point average is high for a pattern with no rare tile requirement, yet only five matches count as common words, so a big score usually means a specialist entry. Check your game's word list before you spend a valuable B or Y tile on one.