5 Letter Words That Start With D For Wordle

Most 5 letter words that start with D never reach ordinary reading. Wordle and Scrabble accept hundreds of them as legal plays, while only around a hundred are words you would say out loud. So once the first tile turns green on D, the question that matters is which of those two groups you are hunting in. Answer that, and you know where the next guess should go.

5 Letter Words That Start With D

Once a tile fixes the second letter, only one of these groups is left to work through.

A vowel follows D in most of these words, which is what makes a grey row of A, E, I, O and U such a strong clue. It leaves only DR, DW, DH, DJ, DS and DZ in play, and that is barely a sixth of the whole set.

For a faster route, the 5 letter words finder takes your green, yellow and grey letters and returns only the D words that still fit.

Common 5 Letter Words That Start With D

Frequency ranking serves a player better than alphabetical order, so these run from the most common D word downward. Nearly every D solution Wordle has ever set falls near the top. So this is the group to guess from when you have nothing else to work with.

Death, Doing, Daily, Doubt and Depth rank far above everything else here. With a green D in the opening tile, any of the first fifteen is a sound percentage guess.

5 Letter Words That Start With DA

DA is the friendliest of the large groups, since Daily, Dairy, Daisy, Dance and Dandy are all everyday words. Daunt and Datum are the two that even experienced players overlook, so keep both on your shortlist.

5 Letter Words That Start With DE

DE and DR have supplied more Wordle solutions between them than every other pair combined. A green E in the second tile therefore puts you in strong territory. Delta, Death, Debut and Decoy have all been set as answers, and Denim and Depth soon after them.

5 Letter Words That Start With DI

Diary, Dirty, Dizzy, Ditch and Diner are the DI words most players think of first, and all five have been solutions. Dirge, Divan and Dicot need a wider vocabulary, though Wordle accepts each one as a legal guess.

5 Letter Words That Start With DO

DO is the largest of these groups, which means a green O in the second tile narrows the field less than any other letter would. Doubt, Doing, Doors, Dozen and Dough are the ones you will meet most in ordinary writing.

5 Letter Words That Start With DR

No pair beginning with D has produced more Wordle solutions than DR, and it does that from one of the smaller groups. Dream, Drink, Drive, Dress and Draft have all been answers, and each opens on a strong consonant pair. The third letter is a vowel in every DR word, with only Dryad, Dryas, Dryer and Dryly using a Y in that slot.

5 Letter Words That Start With DU

Wordle has already set Duchy, Dunce, Duvet, Dusty and Dummy as solutions, so all five are safe guesses. Scrabble dictionaries go further and accept Duple, Dulse and Durum, though you will rarely read those anywhere else.

5 Letter Words That Start With DH DW And DY

Beyond the main six pairs, five smaller ones remain, and all five together are still smaller than DR on its own. DW is the most productive of them, since Dwarf, Dwell and Dwelt have all been Wordle answers.

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DY:

DJ, DS and DZ:

5 Letter Words That Start With D And End With

Endings are spread very unevenly across these words, so knowing the last letter is worth more here than knowing the second. Words ending in S outnumber every other group by a wide margin, because almost all of them are plurals of something shorter. At the other extreme, Droop is the only one ending in P and Dictu the only one ending in U.

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Ending in Y:

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Ending in R:

Ending in D:

Ending in A:

Ending in L:

Ending in O:

Ending in N:

Ending in H:

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Ending in K:

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Ending in G:

Ending in C:

Ending in F: Daraf, Decaf, Draff, Dwarf

Ending in B: Demob, Droob, Dweeb

Ending in X: Desex, Detox, Dewax

Nearly every S word here is the plural of a shorter D word. You can build those yourself from Dice, Dogs and Dunes rather than reading them off a page. These are the S endings that are not plurals at all, which makes them the ones you cannot work out from a shorter word:

5 Letter Words That Start With D With Meaning

These words reach puzzles far more than conversation, which is exactly why players discard them by mistake. Knowing what each one means stops you from talking yourself out of a correct answer.

• Datum: a single piece of recorded information, the singular of data.
• Decry: to criticise something publicly and strongly.
• Deign: to do something you consider beneath you.
• Delve: to search deeply into a subject or a container.
• Demur: to object politely, or to hesitate before agreeing.
• Dhoti: a length of cloth wrapped around the waist and legs, worn across South Asia.
• Dinar: the currency of Serbia, Jordan, Iraq and several other countries.
• Dirge: a slow mournful song written for a funeral.
• Divot: a chunk of turf knocked out of the ground by a golf club or a horse’s hoof.
• Dogma: a belief a group treats as beyond question.
• Doula: a trained companion who supports someone through childbirth.
• Dowel: a short wooden or metal peg used to join two pieces together.
• Dowry: money or property a bride brings into a marriage.
• Dowse: to search for underground water using a forked stick or rods.
• Doyen: the most senior and respected person in a field.
• Dregs: the sediment left at the bottom of a liquid, or the last worthless remains of anything.
• Dross: waste matter, especially the scum that rises off molten metal.
• Drupe: a fruit with a single stone inside, such as a peach or a cherry.
• Druid: a priest of the ancient Celtic religion.
• Dryad: a tree spirit in Greek mythology.
• Ducal: relating to a duke or a dukedom.
• Ducat: a gold coin used across Europe from the Middle Ages onward.
• Duchy: the territory a duke or duchess rules.
• Duple: having two beats in a bar, a term used in music.

5 Letter Words That Start With D For Wordle

Wordle has set every one of these D words as a solution since the game began, and the pattern behind them never breaks. Each is an ordinary word, none is a plural, and not one is among the obscure spellings Scrabble allows.

No D solution has ever ended in S, and none has been a name or an abbreviation. So when your candidate falls outside this group, play it to test letters rather than to win the round.

5 Letter Words That Start With D And Double Letters

Dozens of these words repeat the letter D, and a repeated letter is the hardest pattern to read off the board. Dandy, Dodge, Dread, Druid and Dried are the ones you will need most, and Wordle has already used Dodgy, Dowdy and Diode as solutions.

5 Letter Verbs That Start With D

Verbs make strong guesses, since a plain action word suits a puzzle better than a noun with an unusual spelling. All of these are in current use, and Wordle has set many of them as answers.

• Dance
• Debug
• Decay
• Decry
• Defer
• Deign
• Delay
• Delve
• Demur
• Deter
• Ditch
• Dodge
• Doubt
• Drain
• Drape
• Dread
• Dream
• Dress
• Drift
• Drill
• Drink
• Drive
• Drown
• Dwell

5 Letter Adjectives That Start With D

Adjectives fill the gap once the common nouns and verbs run out. Dirty, Dizzy, Dusty and Dense are the ones you will meet most. Droll and Ducal stay unfamiliar to most players, which makes them better as a late guess.

• Daily
• Dandy
• Dense
• Dicey
• Dingy
• Direr
• Dirty
• Dizzy
• Dodgy
• Dopey
• Dowdy
• Downy
• Drier
• Droll
• Drunk
• Ducal
• Dumpy
• Dusky
• Dusty

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