6-letter words with W as the 1st letter and D as the 6th letter

A fixed W at the front and D at the end leaves 99 options. Familiar past-tense verbs make up a noticeable share: WORKED, WALKED, WAITED, and WASHED all fit. Yet the top tile scores belong to less familiar words, and dictionary coverage changes depending on which word list your game uses.

Quick facts about W…D words

• The pattern has 99 six-letter matches in tournament dictionaries.
• Nineteen entries meet the common-word frequency measure.
• WIZARD, WEZAND, WEIZED, and WANZED each score 19 points.
• Collins has 98 matches, while NWL2023 has 77 and ENABLE has 73.

Which W…D words are familiar?

Several easy-to-spot choices are verbs: WANTED, WORKED, WALKED, WAITED, WASTED, WARNED, WASHED, and WISHED. Their shared ending gives you a practical starting point when the clue suggests a past-tense action.

WICKED, WARMED, WOODED, and WARPED offer different routes through the same letter frame. Still, only 19 of the 99 matches fall within the common-word frequency measure. If a familiar guess fails, the remaining choices are more likely to be specialist or uncommon vocabulary than another everyday verb.

Which matches score well in word games?

WIZARD is the standout familiar scorer at 19 points, tied with WEZAND, WEIZED, and WANZED. WORKED scores 14, making it a recognizable lower-scoring alternative. The unusual high scorers can look tempting on a board, but a strong tile total does not settle if your game accepts the word.

The W…D group has 99 matches, compared with 267 S…D matches of the same length. Collins accepts 98 of these W…D words; NWL2023 accepts 77, and ENABLE accepts 73. That gap matters in cross-dictionary play: check your game's word list before using an unfamiliar entry.

Compare nearby letter patterns

Keeping W in front but changing the final letter to S produces 154 matches, more than this D-ending group. Holding both fixed and adding a letter gives 12 seven-letter matches. Those comparisons show how sharply a single position can narrow a search without making the result rare enough to contain only obscure words.