6-letter words with I as the 4th letter and D as the 6th letter

The pattern is ___i_d: I sits in the fourth spot, and D closes every answer. You’ll see familiar words such as denied, buried, and remind alongside less common entries. The 81 matches form a mixed-dictionary pool, so a word accepted in one tournament list may not appear in another.

At a glance: the shape of this word set

• Every match is six letters long, has I in position four, and ends with D.
• The first letter is most often U, with 12 matches; R follows with 11.
• B starts 10 words, including behind and buried.
• Only 14 matches rank among the top 25,000 English words by frequency.

How many familiar words fit this pattern?

A small set carries much of the everyday feel: behind, period, denied, buried, remind, allied, varied, and relied. Many recognisable options are past-tense forms, including copied, levied, defied, and untied. That makes the ending easier to remember, but it does not make every match a common word.

The dictionaries differ: Collins includes 80 of the matches, while ENABLE includes 56 and NWL2023 includes 58. Treat the 81 as the combined tournament-dictionary total, not a promise that every game accepts every entry. Check your game’s word list before playing an unfamiliar form.

Which matching words score highest?

For Scrabble scoring, VIZIED leads at 19 points, followed by COZIED at 18. LAZIED and ZANIED each score 16, while JURIED and TAXIED reach 14. The strongest totals come from high-value letters, not from the pattern itself.

The 6-letter words with I as the 4th letter and D as the 6th letter include both familiar plays and specialist vocabulary, so check meaning as well as score. BEHIND scores 12, as do MYRIAD and UPWIND; those recognizable choices can be easier to spot than the top-scoring forms. A common mistake is to assume the most familiar-looking answer must also be the best scoring one.