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D at two and R at three has all but vanished at five letters, with one word in total.
ADRAD means afraid, and it is a past participle from Middle English that modern writing dropped centuries ago. It survives in word lists rather than in use.
So there is nothing to work out here. Confirming D in the second box and R in the third hands you the answer outright, which happens on very few patterns.
For the pair to land at positions two and three you need a vowel in front and a workable ending behind. AD followed by R leaves very little room, and English filled that space with longer words like ADRIFT instead.
Not in modern writing. You will meet it in Middle English texts and in word game dictionaries, and almost nowhere else.
They mean the same thing but come from different roots. Afraid arrived through French and pushed the older English form out of everyday use.
No. With one word behind it there is nothing to gain, and you would spend a turn confirming something you could simply look up.