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

The pattern is _U_D__, with U fixed in position two and D in position four. Thirteen of the 91 matches are common English words, while 66 have definitions. MURDER, BURDEN, FUNDED, and GUIDED are recognizable starting points; the remaining entries include less familiar vocabulary, so a puzzle answer and a tournament play are not always the same thing.

At a glance, the U-and-D pattern

• The _U_D__ pattern has 91 six-letter matches in at least one tournament dictionary.
• Only 13 matches rank among the top 25,000 English words by frequency.
• S leads the first-letter group with 15 words; B follows with 11.
• E is the most common final letter, appearing in 19 matches.
• Collins includes 89 matches, compared with 61 in NWL2023 and 56 in ENABLE.

Which words fit U second and D fourth?

MURDER, SUDDEN, FUNDED, BURDEN, and GUIDED make the pattern easy to recognize: each keeps U in the second slot and D in the fourth. Other familiar examples include BUNDLE, HURDLE, CUDDLE, PUDDLE, and HUDDLE. These examples show why checking both fixed positions matters; a word can contain several Ds without putting one in the required slot.

The opening and ending letters narrow the choices further: fifteen matches start with S, including SUDDEN and SUNDAE, while 19 end in E, 15 in R, and 13 in N. If your known letters point to an E ending, try the pattern _U_D_E before testing less common final letters.

How do 6-letter words with U second and D fourth score?

QUIDAM is the top scorer at 18 points, and JUDDER follows at 15. Both beat more familiar options such as BUDDHA and CUDDLY, which score 13 each. QUIDAM is a strong rack-score candidate, but its unfamiliarity makes it a poor first guess when you are solving a clue by meaning.

Dictionary coverage is a real limitation: the 91-word total combines matches accepted by at least one tournament list, not words shared by every list. Collins has 89, while NWL2023 has 61 and ENABLE has 56. Check your game's word list before playing an obscure candidate like QUIDAM or JUDDER.