823 five letter words end in D. A big group, and past-tense verbs are most of the reason why.
823 words end in D. More than half of them, 530, end specifically in -ED.
That's what regular past-tense verbs look like. WALK becomes WALKED, LOOK becomes LOOKED, five letters exactly once you land on the right base.
Wordle uses plenty of these. It's one of the few "predictable" endings that isn't a plural.
Out of 2,315 real Wordle answers, 118 end in D, 5.1%.
Of the 823 words ending in D, 118 are real answers, a 14.3% hit rate. Solid, if not spectacular.
Unlike S, D-ending words aren't excluded for being past-tense verbs. Wordle just doesn't use them quite as often as the raw count would suggest.
ABLED. BLOOD. CLOUD. FLOOD. GUILD. PLAID. SHIED. TEPID.
A real mix, some past-tense, some not. All of them common enough to guess confidently.
VOZHD tops the board at 21 points, a term for a Soviet-style supreme leader. FAZED and FUZED tie at 18 each.
None of these are everyday words, but they're valid, and a scrabble word finder will pull them up the moment you've got a Z and a D in your rack.
ED- runs away with it at 530 words, more than half the entire group. ID- is next at 83, then ND- with 50, AD- with 46.
That ED- concentration is almost entirely past-tense verbs. Nothing else on this page leans this hard on one pattern.
More than half of every D-ending word is a past-tense verb ending in -ED.
All 823 words sit below. Real Wordle answers are marked.
Use the word finder above if you know another letter too, or scroll the full 5 letter words list.
All 823 words sit below. Real Wordle answers are marked. Use the word finder above if you know another letter too, or scroll the full 5 letter words list.
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Data computed from a 12,974-word open-source dictionary and the 2,315-word Wordle answer list. Last updated August 26, 2026.