7-letter words with G as the 3rd letter and D as the 7th letter

The pattern is __G___D: G is fixed in the middle, and D closes every match. ENGAGED, FIGURED, and SIGHTED are familiar examples, while BEGAZED and UPGAZED top the scoring list. The 101 entries come from tournament dictionaries; dictionary coverage differs, so an accepted word depends on which list your game uses.

How many words fit G third and D last?

• Exactly 101 tournament-dictionary words match the seven-letter pattern __G___D.
• Collins contains 99 matches, compared with 77 in NWL2023 and 71 in ENABLE.
• Those dictionary counts overlap; they are not separate groups to add together.
• Five matches rank among the top 25,000 English words by frequency.
• BEGAZED and UPGAZED score 20 points each, the highest scores in this group.

Which words should you check first?

Start with ENGAGED, FIGURED, SIGHTED, ANGERED, and LIGHTED. Each gives you a recognizable route through the pattern, with G locked in third place and D at the end. DOGWOOD and RAGWEED show that the middle letters can form very different-looking words around the same fixed positions.

The initial letter is not evenly distributed: B leads with 12 matches, R follows with 10, and H contributes 8. That makes the first letter a useful filter when you have more than the two fixed positions. By comparison, the E-third, D-last pattern has 337 words, so this G pattern is a much narrower search.

7-letter words with G as the 3rd letter and D as the 7th letter

For a board game, BEGAZED and UPGAZED lead at 20 points; JUGHEAD scores 19, while JUGGLED, JIGGLED, and JOGGLED each score 17. These are raw letter totals, so board premiums can change the result. The average score across the group is 11.7.

The pattern is poor for Wordle: none of its matches are answers or allowed guesses in the Wordle lists. It is also less familiar overall than its total might suggest, since only 5 entries meet the common group. Check your game's dictionary before playing an unfamiliar high scorer.