Is CLEAN a Wordle Word?

Yes. CLEAN is a valid Wordle word.

It was the Wordle answer on November 26, 2022 (#525).

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

What does CLEAN mean?

/kleːn/

Removal of dirt.“This place needs a clean.”
The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.

5 more verb definitions

To make things clean in general.“She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her.”
To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).
To brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure a correct line; less vigorous than a sweep.
To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting and poor color contrast.
To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal.

(heading, physical) Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.
(heading, behavioural) Free of immorality or criminality.
Smooth, exact, and performed well“I’ll need a sharper knife to make clean cuts. a clean leap over a fence”

8 more adjective definitions

Total; utter. (still in "clean sweep")
Cool or neat.“Wow, Dude, those are some clean shoes ya got there!”
(health) Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).“I want to make sure my fiancé is clean before we are married.”
That does not damage the environment.“clean energy; clean coal”
Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.“clean land; clean timber”
Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
Well-proportioned; shapely.“clean limbs”
(of a route) Ascended without falling.

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

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

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