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

Lock in the R and final D, then check the remaining letters against familiar choices such as shared and stored. The pattern has 136 entries across tournament dictionaries, but only 19 count as common by frequency. That gap matters: a valid play can be much less familiar than the everyday words near the top of the list.

At a glance: the R-and-D pattern

• 136 six-letter words put R in position four and D in position six.
• Shared, scared, scored, stored and hybrid are recognizable examples.
• Only 19 matches count as common by our frequency measure.
• The first letter is most often S, with 26 words; T follows with 10.
• A total of 105 matches have definitions.

Which words fit this six-letter pattern?

Familiar forms do much of the work here: shared, scored, scared, stored, feared and poured all put R fourth and finish in D. Several are past-tense verbs or participles, so the clue's grammar can narrow your choices. Scared and stored, for example, can also describe a state or quality.

Other useful candidates include sacred, paired, spared and toured. They show how much the first three letters can vary while the fixed positions stay put. The pattern does not guarantee an everyday answer, though: only 19 of the 136 entries count as common, and many are less likely to come to mind during a timed puzzle.

How do 6-letter words with R fourth and D sixth score?

QUIRED scores 16 points, the highest score among these entries; HYBRID follows at 15. JARRED and JEERED each score 14, as do HYDRID, JERRID, CYBRID, CYPRID and SKYRED. The rare-looking options can outscore familiar words, so check your rack before settling on an obvious play.

The 6-letter words with R as the 4th letter and D as the 6th letter have different dictionary coverage: Collins includes 135, NWL2023 includes 92 and ENABLE includes 89. Those counts overlap because words can appear in more than one dictionary. Check your game's word list before playing; fixing D at the end first can make the remaining letter search easier.