Is BORED a Wordle Word?

Yes. BORED is a valid Wordle word.

It is not on the Wordle answer list, so it is unlikely to be a daily answer.

Past-tense words ending in ED are almost never chosen as Wordle answers.

What does BORED mean?

/bɔːd/

verb

  1. To inspire boredom in somebody.
  2. To make a hole through something.
  3. To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.“An insect bores into a tree.”
6 more verb definitions
  1. To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.“to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole”
  2. To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.“to bore one's way through a crowd”
  3. To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.“This timber does not bore well.”
  4. To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
  5. (of a horse) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air.
  6. To fool; to trick.

adjective

  1. Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do
  2. Uninterested, without attention“The piano teacher's bored look indicated he wasn't paying much attention to his pupil's lackluster rendition of Mozart's Requiem”
  3. Perforated by a hole or holes (through bioerosion or other)

Definition from Wiktionary, available under the CC BY-SA license.

BORED in Wordle

Starter word rating
AverageIn the top 20% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels
O, E
Unique letters
5 of 5
Common letters
O, R, E

Hard-mode trap: 8 valid words fit the pattern BO_ED. If you reach it, you may need several guesses to find the last letter.

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