Is COUGH a Wordle Word?
Yes. COUGH is a valid Wordle word.
- Valid guess
- Possible answer
It is on the original Wordle answer list and has not been an answer yet, so it could be a future answer.
What does COUGH mean?
/kɑf/
noun
- A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary.“Behind me, I heard a distinct, dry cough.”
- A condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough.“Sorry, I can't come to work today – I've got a nasty cough.”
- Used to focus attention on a following utterance, often a euphemism or an attribution of blame“He was – cough – indisposed.”
verb
- To push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion.“I breathed in a lungful of smoke by mistake, and started to cough.”
- (sometimes followed by "up") To force something out of the throat or lungs by coughing.“Sometimes she coughed (up) blood.”
- To make a noise like a cough.“The engine coughed and sputtered.”
Definition from Wiktionary, available under the CC BY-SA license.
COUGH in Wordle
- Starter word rating
- WeakIn the top 81% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
- Vowels
- O, U
- Unique letters
- 5 of 5
- Common letters
- O
Hard-mode trap: 8 valid words fit the pattern
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