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

The pattern is I-D-___, leaving three positions open after the fixed letters. Familiar options include indeed, indoor, induce and indigo, while iodine has O in both middle slots. Only 6 entries count as common vocabulary, so recognizable candidates are a small part of the full set; the rest can still matter when a game accepts tournament-word lists.

At a glance

• There are 32 six-letter matches with I first and D third.
• Only 6 matches fall among the commonest English words.
• The most frequent final letters are E and S, with 9 words each.
• IODIZE leads the scoring examples at 16 points.

Which dictionaries accept these I-D words?

Collins includes all 32 matches; NWL2023 has 30, and ENABLE has 29. A Collins-accepted word is not automatically accepted in a North American or ENABLE-based game, so check the word list your game uses.

Twenty-seven entries have definitions. INDEED, INDOOR, INDIGO, INDUCE and IODINE are recognizable choices; INDULT, INDUNA and INDABA are less familiar. The fixed I and D narrow the pattern, but they do not make every answer an everyday word.

How do the endings and scores narrow the choices?

E and S tie as the leading final letters, with 9 matches apiece. T follows with 5, while A, D and M each finish 2 words. When the final tile is unknown, checking E- and S-ending candidates first covers the largest groups; INDIES and INDUCE show how different those endings look.

IODIZE scores 16 points, well ahead of INDEED at 8. INDUCE, INDICT, INDIUM, INDUCT and INDABA each score 9. That makes IODIZE the standout for points, but its less familiar spelling is a poor guess when you need a recognizable word; INDEED and INDOOR are easier to test against crossing letters.

The seven-letter version of this pattern holds 52 matches, while the five-letter version holds 10.