Is GORGE a Wordle Word?

Yes. GORGE is a valid Wordle word.

It was the Wordle answer on January 9, 2022 (#204).

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

What does GORGE mean?

/ɡɔːdʒ/

noun

  1. The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.
  2. The inside of the throat; the esophagus, the gullet; (falconry, specifically) the crop or gizzard of a hawk.“Gleam, a term uſed after a hawk hath caſt and gleameth, or throweth up filth from her gorge.”
  3. The throat of a flower.
5 more noun definitions
  1. Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.“My gorge rises at the sight of it.”
  2. A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.“an ice gorge in a river”
  3. A concave moulding; a cavetto.
  4. The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.
  5. A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.“Hooks of willow wood or bone (often from wishbone) and copper gorges (thin bipointed rods with a fishline attachment in the middle) could be baited with fish scrap or meat.”

verb

  1. To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities.“They gorged themselves on chocolate and cake.”
  2. To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.“Seiz'd by his [a lion's] stalwart teeth, at once | his victim's [a cow's] neck is broken: Thereafter, swilleth he the blood, | and all her entrails gorgeth.”
  3. To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.“If in thy doting and decrepit age, Thy ſoul, a ſtranger in thy youth to rage, Begins in cruel deeds to take delight, Gorge with my blood thy barb'rous appetite; […]”
1 more verb definition
  1. To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.

adjective

  1. Gorgeous.“Oh, look at him: isn’t he gorge?”

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

GORGE in Wordle

Starter word rating
WeakIn the top 42% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels
O, E
Unique letters
4 of 5Repeats G
Common letters
O, R, E

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