7-letter words with D as the 1st letter and B as the 5th letter

The fixed pattern is D _ _ _ B _ _: the first and fifth tiles are settled, leaving four positions open. There are 38 tournament-listed matches, but only two rank among common English words. Recognizable choices include durable, disable, dribble, and disobey; many other entries are much less familiar.

The D-first, B-fifth pattern at a glance

• The pattern has 38 seven-letter matches across the tournament dictionaries.
• ENABLE includes 26 matches; Collins includes 37, and NWL2023 includes 30.
• Only two matches are common by our frequency measure.
• Durable, disable, dribble, and disobey are among the recognizable examples.
• DJIBBAH leads the Scrabble scores at 22 points.

How many 7-letter words have D first and B fifth?

There are 38 matches for D _ _ _ B _ _. The ending E appears most often, on 13 words; S occurs on five, while R and Y each finish four. That makes durable and disable easier to recognize than many of the less familiar entries, but the final letter still narrows the search.

Changing the first letter while keeping B in fifth place gives a useful comparison: the B-first pattern has 40 matches, just two more than the D-first pattern. By contrast, changing the fifth letter while keeping D first can open a much larger set; the I-fifth pattern has 401 matches.

Which matches score well and work in your game?

For Scrabble scoring, DJIBBAH tops these matches at 22 points. DJEMBES and DJIBBAS each score 19, and DOWNBOW scores 16. Those unusual J-rich words outrank familiar options such as durable, so don’t judge a rack’s scoring potential by how ordinary a word looks.

The 7-letter words with D as the 1st letter and B as the 5th letter are not accepted uniformly: the counts are 26 in ENABLE, 37 in Collins, and 30 in NWL2023. The overall 38 includes words found in at least one of those tournament lists, not necessarily all three. Check your game’s dictionary before playing an unfamiliar entry.

With just two common matches, this pattern is better treated as a precise crossword or rack filter than as a bank of everyday vocabulary. Start with durable, disable, and dribble when you need familiar candidates; turn to the high-scoring J words when your game’s word list allows them.