7-letter words with D as the 2nd letter and N as the 4th letter

The pattern is _D_N___, so both fixed letters sit inside the word and three slots remain open. A-starting entries lead the group: six begin with A, while four begin with O. These matches are unusually obscure; none falls in the common-word group, and only eight have definitions.

The D-and-N pattern at a glance

• Exactly 12 tournament-dictionary words fit _D_N___.
• Six matches start with A, four with O; E and I each start one.
• Four words end in E; A, C, and S each appear twice at the end.
• ADONIZE leads the score ranking at 17 points.

Which words fit the D-and-N pattern?

The matches include ADENINE, ADENOMA, ODDNESS, ADENOID, ODONATA, and IDENTIC. Four examples share the visible ADEN opening: ADENINE, ADENOMA, ADENOID, and ADENYLS. ODONATA and ODONATE make another easy-to-spot pair.

Those repeated chunks give you a practical way to work the pattern: hold D in slot two and N in slot four, then test familiar-looking fragments such as ADEN or ODON. The other starting letters are E and I, so an A-only search misses six matches and an O-only search misses four.

How to use 7-letter words with D second and N fourth

This is a narrow pattern compared with nearby choices. Keeping N fourth but changing the second letter to O produces 281 matches; keeping D second and changing N fourth to I produces 23, while E produces 21. Check the fixed positions before you spend time rearranging the remaining letters.

The score leader is ADONIZE at 17, well ahead of ADENYLS at 11. Familiarity is the limitation: none of these words is in the common group, and only eight have definitions. The dictionaries also differ: Collins lists 11 matches, NWL2023 lists eight, and ENABLE lists seven, so check your game's word list before playing.