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Most Common 5-Letter Words Starting With D

Everyday words that are most likely to be a Wordle answer, most common first.

All 735 5-Letter Words Starting With D (A–Z)

Every word on this page is accepted as a guess in Wordle (it comes from the standard Wordle list of 14,855 five-letter words). Words highlighted in green are on the original Wordle answer list.

Starting with DA (103)

Starting with DB (1)

Starting with DE (150)

Starting with DH (12)

Starting with DI (109)

Starting with DJ (2)

Starting with DO (165)

Starting with DR (83)

Starting with DS (2)

Starting with DU (84)

Starting with DW (13)

Starting with DY (10)

Starting with DZ (1)

About 5-Letter Words Starting With D

735
Total words
111
Wordle answer words
488
No repeated letters
2 pts
Scrabble value of D

There are 735 five-letter words that start with D. Every word on this page is accepted as a guess in Wordle (it comes from the standard Wordle list of 14,855 five-letter words).

The letters that most often follow D are O (165), E (150), I (109), A (103) and U (84). The biggest groups are words beginning with DO-, DE- and DI-, so if you know the second letter you can jump straight to that group in the list above.

Using These Words in Wordle

If Wordle shows a green D in the first square, the answer is one of these 735 words. 111 of them are on the original Wordle answer list, which is a much smaller set of everyday words; they are highlighted in green in the list above. Examples: DOING, DEATH, DRIVE, DAILY, DANCE, DREAM.

A strong next guess from this list is DEALT: it uses five different letters that appear often in Wordle answers, so it rules out as many words as possible. To combine this with your other green, yellow and grey tiles, use the Wordle Helper.

Highest-Scoring Words for Scrabble and Words With Friends

Using standard Scrabble tile values (before bonus squares), the highest-scoring well-known words here are DIZZY (27 points), DAZED (16 points), DOZEN (15 points), DUCHY (14 points), DUMMY (13 points). D itself is worth 2 points. To search by the exact tiles on your rack, use the word finder or the anagram solver.

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There are 735 five-letter words that start with D in our list, and all of them are accepted by Wordle. The most common are DOING, DEATH, DRIVE, DAILY, DANCE, DREAM, DOUBT, DRINK.
111 words on this page are on the original Wordle answer list, for example DOING, DEATH, DRIVE, DAILY, DANCE, DREAM, DOUBT, DRINK. The rest are accepted as guesses but are less common words. A good guess to narrow things down is DEALT.
With standard Scrabble tile values: DIZZY (27), DAZED (16), DOZEN (15), DUCHY (14), DUMMY (13). Bonus squares on the board can increase these scores.
488 of the 735 words use 5 different letters, which makes them better Wordle guesses because each letter gives you new information.