ID closes a five letter word with a short vowel and a hard consonant, and Wordle players confirm the pair once both tiles turn green. Those letters fix the last two positions, so the 5 letter words ending in ID leave the opening three unsolved.
A large share of this pattern is adjectives. Humid, Livid, Lucid, Lurid, Rabid, Rapid, Rigid, Solid, Tepid, Timid and Valid all describe a quality, so once the ID is green a describing word is the safer guess.
There are 82 five letter words ending in ID. Avoid, Solid, Rapid, Valid and Fluid are the strongest Wordle guesses because none of them repeat a letter. Zooid, Squid and Equid all score 15 in Scrabble, the highest here.
5 Letter Words Ending In ID
I and D take the final two slots, which leaves the first three letters carrying the guess.
| Acrid | Alcid | Algid | Apaid |
| Aphid | Aroid | Avoid | Axoid |
| Betid | Bifid | Bovid | Braid |
| Breid | Calid | Canid | Cebid |
| Cupid | Droid | Druid | Equid |
| Felid | Fetid | Fluid | Gadid |
| Gelid | Geoid | Halid | Humid |
| Hyoid | Iodid | Jerid | Lepid |
| Lipid | Livid | Lucid | Lurid |
| Madid | Marid | Mirid | Mucid |
| Murid | Myoid | Mysid | Nitid |
| Ootid | Ovoid | Pavid | Plaid |
| Putid | Pyoid | Rabid | Ranid |
| Rapid | Rebid | Redid | Resid |
| Rigid | Rorid | Sapid | Sayid |
| Slaid | Sloid | Solid | Squid |
| Staid | Tabid | Teiid | Tepid |
| Thrid | Timid | Tumid | Unbid |
| Undid | Unkid | Unlid | Unrid |
| Ursid | Valid | Vapid | Virid |
| Vivid | Zooid |
5 Letter Words Ending In ID For Wordle
Every word here uses five different letters, so one guess tests five positions at once.
| Avoid | Solid | Rapid |
| Valid | Fluid | Humid |
| Squid | Plaid | Lucid |
| Braid | Cupid | Rabid |
| Lurid | Tepid | Staid |
| Vapid | Aphid | Acrid |
Avoid and Solid give the widest letter spread. Squid and Plaid work better once a vowel is already confirmed.
5 Letter Words Ending In ID For Scrabble
Z and Q carry the scoring here, and Zooid, Squid and Equid all tie at 15.
| Word | Points |
|---|---|
| Zooid | 15 |
| Squid | 15 |
| Equid | 15 |
| Jerid | 13 |
| Axoid | 13 |
| Vivid | 12 |
| Hyoid | 12 |
| Vapid | 11 |
| Pyoid | 11 |
| Pavid | 11 |
| Mysid | 11 |
| Myoid | 11 |
| Humid | 11 |
| Bovid | 11 |
| Bifid | 11 |
5 Letter Words Ending In ID And Their Meanings
Twenty of these words with what they mean.
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Acrid | Bitter and sharp in taste or smell |
| Aphid | A small insect that feeds on plants |
| Avoid | To keep away from |
| Bifid | Divided into two parts |
| Braid | To weave strands together |
| Cupid | The Roman god of love |
| Droid | A robot |
| Druid | A priest of ancient Celtic religion |
| Fetid | Smelling unpleasant |
| Fluid | A liquid or gas |
| Humid | Having a lot of moisture in the air |
| Lipid | A fat or oil in living cells |
| Livid | Furiously angry |
| Lucid | Clearly expressed |
| Lurid | Shockingly vivid |
| Plaid | A checked cloth pattern |
| Rabid | Affected by rabies, or fanatical |
| Rapid | Happening quickly |
| Rigid | Unable to bend |
| Solid | Firm and stable in shape |
FAQs
The ones you meet most in everyday English are Avoid, Solid, Rapid and Valid. Fluid, Humid, Timid and Rigid follow closely behind them.
There are 82 five letter words ending in ID in standard word game dictionaries. Around 24 of those are words most players already recognise.
The ID ending comes from Latin adjective forms that English borrowed whole. Humid, Livid, Lucid, Lurid, Rabid, Rigid, Timid, Tepid and Valid all arrived that way.
Try Avoid. It tests A, V and O alongside the ID pair, which covers two vowels in one guess. Solid works equally well and swaps in S, O and L.
The top score is 15 points before any board bonus, shared by Zooid, Squid and Equid. Jerid reaches 13.
Eleven words take O in the third position. Avoid, Aroid, Ovoid, Zooid, Myoid, Hyoid and Pyoid are the ones to know.
Yes, five of them. Undid is the only one you are likely to meet outside a word game, joined by Unbid, Unkid, Unlid and Unrid.
Several do. Aphid names an insect, Squid a sea creature, Canid a dog family member, Felid a cat family member and Murid a rodent.
