Is GRAIN a Wordle Word?

Yes. GRAIN is a valid Wordle word.

It was the Wordle answer on December 27, 2024 (#1287).

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

What does GRAIN mean?

/ɡɹeɪn/

The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.“We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.”
Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
A single seed of grass food crops.“a grain of wheat”

12 more noun definitions

The crops from which grain is harvested.“The fields were planted with grain.”
A linear texture of a material or surface.“Cut along the grain of the wood.”
A single particle of a substance.“a grain of salt”
A very small unit of weight, in England equal to 1/480 of an ounce troy, 0.0648 grams or, to be more exact, 64.79891 milligrams (0.002285714 avoirdupois ounce). A carat grain or pearl grain is 1/4 carat or 50 milligrams. The old French grain was 1/9216 livre or 53.11 milligrams, and in the mesures usuelles permitted from 1812 to 1839, with the livre redefined as 500 grams, it was 54.25 milligrams.
A former unit of gold purity, also known as carat grain, equal to 1/4 "carat" (karat).
(materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
(in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.
A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
(videography) Visual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons.

To feed grain to.
To make granular; to form into grains.
To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.

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Starter word rating: AverageIn the top 18% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels: A, I
Unique letters: 5 of 5
Common letters: R, A, I

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