6-letter words with E as the 2nd letter and D as the 4th letter

E_D leaves both the opener and the closing pair open, and two big tails split the list: leader, reader, tender and vendor end -er while needed, headed, tended and seeded end -ed. No single first letter dominates, so position one narrows little, and only 23 of the 126 make the common-word cut.

The E_D split at a glance

• Each of the 126 matches locks E into the second slot and D into the fourth.
• 32 matches end -ER and 30 end -ED, so 62 of the 126 split into agent nouns and past tenses.
• No opener dominates: R starts 13, H 12, and B and V 11 each.
• 23 entries count as common words, from reader to meadow.
• Zendik tops the list at 20; heyday, heydey, zendos and zerdas each score 16.

Which E_D words end in -er and -ed?

The -er group reads like a list of people and things: leader, reader, header, feeder, lender, sender, vendor and bender all take that tail.

The -ed group is past tense throughout: needed, headed, tended, seeded, welded and wedded. Together the two endings account for 62 of the 126 matches.

A smaller middle group ends neither way. Seldom, meadow, tendon, feudal and heyday spread across the last two slots instead, and those words rarely appear as answers.

Which E_D words are worth the tiles?

Zendik is the outlier at 20 points, built on Z and K. Heyday, heydey, zendos and zerdas tie at 16.

Most of the list is flat. The average is 9.5, and the everyday -er and -ed words rarely pass 12, so the rare-letter entries hold most of the value.