Is FISHY a Wordle Word?

Yes. FISHY is a valid Wordle word.

It was the Wordle answer on January 29, 2023 (#589).

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

What does FISHY mean?

noun

  1. A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.“Salmon is a fish.”
  2. Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
  3. The flesh of the fish used as food.“The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.”
9 more noun definitions
  1. A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
  2. A woman.
  3. An easy victim for swindling.
  4. A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
  5. A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
  6. A purchase used to fish the anchor.
  7. A torpedo.
  8. A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
  9. The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.

noun

  1. A period of time spent fishing.“The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.”
  2. An instance of seeking something.“Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.”

noun

  1. A counter, used in various games.

adjective

  1. Of, from, or similar to fish.“What is that fishy odor?”
  2. Suspicious; inspiring doubt.“I don't trust him; his claims seem fishy to me.”
  3. Of drag queens: appearing feminine.

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FISHY in Wordle

Starter word rating
WeakIn the top 80% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels
I
Unique letters
5 of 5
Common letters
I

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