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

Read the pattern as __M___D: the third tile is M, the final tile is D, and five positions remain open. Limited, removed, damaged, and sampled show how often a match is an ordinary past-tense form. Still, only 11 entries rank among the 25,000 most frequent English words, so expect many less familiar candidates in the full set.

How many 7-letter words have M third and D seventh?

• There are 120 matches with M in position three and D in position seven.
• Limited, removed, command, and damaged are recognizable examples.
• R begins 15 matches, the largest first-letter group; C and D begin 10 each.
• S starts 9 words, while B, H, and U each start 8.
• Bemazed and zomboid lead the score list at 21 points apiece.
• The counts vary by dictionary: 115 in Collins, 89 in NWL2023, and 77 in ENABLE.

Why does this letter pattern narrow the choices?

R is the most common opening letter, but it accounts for only 15 of the 120 matches. C and D follow at 10 each, then S at 9. Once M and D are fixed, the first letter is a useful extra filter rather than a guarantee of a familiar answer.

The same ending paired with N in third place produces 199 words, compared with 120 for M. A in third place gives 436. Keeping M but changing the final letter to E gives 101, so the D ending has a modest edge over that nearby pattern.

Limited and command make familiar anchors, while bemazed and zomboid are score leaders, not everyday choices. Just 11 matches meet the common-word cutoff; recognition alone is a poor test of whether an entry belongs in a word-game dictionary.

Which matches have the strongest tile scores?

Bemazed and zomboid each score 21 points. Jumbled, jimmied, jemmied, bemixed, and immixed each score 19, with admixed, humphed, and lymphad close behind at 18. The high values come from letters such as Z and J, not from the fixed M-and-D pattern itself.

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