5-Letter Words Starting With D and Ending in T

There are 30 five-letter words starting with D and ending in T, and 18 of them are words you would expect to see in everyday writing. The rest are technical terms, plurals, variant spellings and the odd loanword, all of which are legal in most tile games. The highest-scoring entry is DIXIT at 13 points. Scan the common words first, then dip into the rare ones when the board leaves you no other option.

How to use this page

This page works as both a reference and a tool. As a reference, it lists every word that start with D and end in T, sorted by familiarity. As a tool, it accepts your own letters in the search box and returns the subset you can play, with scores. The related links at the end cover neighbouring letters and lengths.

Tips

If you know some letters of a word and their positions, a pattern search finds it faster than scanning a list. Open the word finder, type the word with question marks for the unknown letters, and every match appears immediately. You can combine a pattern with the starts-with and ends-with filters to narrow the set further. This works for crosswords, for daily five-letter puzzles and for any tile game where a board word gives you two or three fixed letters.

Questions

Which five-letter words starting with D and ending in T are the most common?

DOUBT, DIGIT and DEALT are among the most familiar. The list is sorted with everyday words first, and the very common ones carry a small dot, so you can read the top of the page and skip the obscure entries at the bottom.

Can I search this list with my own letters?

Yes. Type your letters into the search box at the top of the page, using a question mark for a blank, and the tool will show only the five-letter words starting with D and ending in T you can actually spell from that rack, with scores.