Is CADET a Wordle Word?

Yes. CADET is a valid Wordle word.

It was the Wordle answer on July 22, 2024 (#1129).

Since February 2026, Wordle sometimes reuses past answers, so it could be the answer again.

What does CADET mean?

A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.
(in compounds, chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)“a cadet branch of the family”

2 more noun definitions

A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.

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

Starter word rating: GoodIn the top 9% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels: A, E
Unique letters: 5 of 5
Common letters: A, E, T

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