7-letter words with D as the 1st letter and B as the 4th letter

Locking D into the opening tile and B into the fourth narrows the search to 74 tournament-dictionary entries. The set is lopsided at the end: 30 words finish in S, while just 10 finish in R and 9 in D. Only five entries rank among the most common English words, so expect plenty of specialist vocabulary alongside recognizable forms.

At a glance: the D-and-B pattern

• There are 74 seven-letter matches with D first and B fourth.
• Only 5 matches fall within the top 25,000 English words by frequency.
• S is the leading final letter, appearing in 30 words; R follows with 10.
• Collins includes 72 matches, compared with 60 in NWL2023 and 55 in ENABLE.
• The average Scrabble score across the set is 12.4 points.

7-letter words with D first and B fourth

DOUBLED, DOUBLES, DOUBTED, DRIBBLE, DISBAND, DABBLED, and DABBING show the pattern in words many players will recognize. The first three also make the repeated D-O-U-B opening easy to spot; DRIBBLE and DISBAND take different routes through the same fixed letters.

That familiar group is a small slice of the 74 matches: just 5 meet the common-word cutoff. The rest include less everyday entries such as DIABOLO, DOUBLEt, and DABBLES. Check your game's word list before playing an unfamiliar form, because Collins, NWL2023, and ENABLE do not contain identical sets.

Which matches score most in Scrabble?

DJIBBAH leads the score list at 22 points, with DYBBUKS and DJIBBAS close behind at 19 each. DAYBOOK and DJEBELS score 17 apiece, while DIEBACK reaches 16. These are strong rack scores, but the highest scorer is also an obscure word, not an everyday opening play.

The pattern is less crowded than several nearby searches: 7-letter words starting with S and B while keeping B fourth have 108 and 103 matches. Changing only the fourth letter to A gives 148 D-starting results. For the same D-and-B positions, the six-letter search has 49 matches and the five-letter search has 23.