Is DREAD a Wordle Word?
Yes. DREAD is a valid Wordle word.
- Valid guess
- Past answer #1480 · Jul 8, 2025
It was the Wordle answer on July 8, 2025 (#1480).
Since February 2026, Wordle sometimes reuses past answers, so it could be the answer again.
What does DREAD mean?
/dɹɛd/
noun
- Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.“my visit to the doctor is filling me with dread”
- Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
- Somebody or something dreaded.
4 more noun definitions
- A person highly revered.
- Fury; dreadfulness.
- A Rastafarian.
- (chiefly in the plural) dreadlock
verb
- To fear greatly.
- To anticipate with fear.“I'm dreading getting the results of the test, as it could decide my whole life.”
- To be in dread, or great fear.
1 more verb definition
- To style (the hair) into dreadlocks.
adjective
- Terrible; greatly feared.
- Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.
Definition from Wiktionary, available under the CC BY-SA license.
DREAD in Wordle
- Starter word rating
- AverageIn the top 22% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
- Vowels
- E, A
- Unique letters
- 4 of 5Repeats D
- Common letters
- R, E, A
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