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Fifty six words carry I second and D third, and a single stem shape produces a large share of them.
E takes the fourth box in twenty five of the fifty six, forty five percent. SIDES, RIDER, HIDES, TIDES and AIDED all run through it.
AIDED, AIDER and AIDES form one set. BIDED, BIDER and BIDES form another, and HIDED, HIDER, HIDES and SIDED, SIDER, SIDES do the same. The pattern repeats across several openers.
So a confirmed IDE leaves you choosing between an opener and an ending rather than working out a word. That is a different kind of puzzle from most pages here.
VIDEO, WIDTH, RIDGE, WIDOW and MIDST are the most useful outside the IDE family. CIDER, TIDAL and GIDDY are worth remembering too.
S closes fourteen of the fifty six, R closes ten and Y closes nine. Between them that is most of the last box accounted for.
WIDTH tests the T and H, which the IDE family never uses. That makes it better at ruling out the bulk of the group.
A sensing method using laser pulses to measure distance, now common in surveying and self driving cars. It is one of the few modern coinages here.
GIDDY means dizzy while KIDDY is an informal word for a child. They are a G and a K apart and nothing else.
A Greek philosophical term for the form or essence of a thing. EIDER, the duck, sits beside it and is far likelier to be wanted.
Seven of them do, and every one doubles the D first. BIDDY, GIDDY, KIDDY and MIDDY are the ones worth knowing.