4 letter words with IE

Our dictionary holds 52 4 letter words with ie, all exactly 4 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is KIEF, worth 11 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with L than any other letter — 6 of them, about 12% of the list.

15 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (29%), including view, diet, died, lies, ties; the remaining 37 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.