Is HINGE a Wordle Word?

Yes. HINGE is a valid Wordle word.

It was the Wordle answer on May 23, 2022 (#338).

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

What does HINGE mean?

/ˈhɪndʒ/

A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.
A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.

3 more noun definitions

A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.“This argument was the hinge on which the question turned.”
The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.

To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
(with on or upon) To depend on something.
The breaking off of the distal end of a knapped stone flake whose presumed course across the face of the stone core was truncated prematurely, leaving not a feathered distal end but instead the scar of a nearly perpendicular break.“The flake hinged at an inclusion in the core.”

1 more verb definition

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

Starter word rating: AverageIn the top 38% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels: I, E
Unique letters: 5 of 5
Common letters: I, E

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