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4 Letter Words Starting with D

Found 319 4-letter words starting with D. Skim the list below, or stack on more filters to narrow things down further.

Quick answers

How many 4-letter words starting with D are there?

There are 319 4-letter words starting with D in our list right now.

What's the highest-scoring 4-letter word starting with D?

"dozy" tops the list starting with D at 17 points in Scrabble.

What's a common 4-letter word starting with D?

"dark" is one you'll recognize — it's among the more frequently used 4-letter words starting with D.

Will these words hold up in Scrabble or Words With Friends?

They're drawn from a broad English word list, not a single tournament dictionary. If you're playing competitively, double-check against your game's official list (TWL or SOWPODS) before you commit to a play.

Keep exploring

Want 4-letter words starting with D? There are 319 words here, pulled from a broad English word list and run through every filter on this page. Top of the scoreboard: "dozy", worth 17 points in Scrabble and Words With Friends.

Reach for these first if you want something no scorekeeper will argue with: dark, data, date, days, dead, deal. Common words like these show up in most game dictionaries, so they're safe, low-risk plays. Want something sneakier — harder to guess, less likely to get challenged — use the filters below to narrow by extra letters.

D, E, O, A, S show up most often in this group — worth remembering when you're deciding which tiles to hang onto. Z, X, J turn up far less, and they're usually what pushes a word's score higher when they do.