Is HOIST a Wordle Word?
Yes. HOIST is a valid Wordle word.
- Valid guess
- Past answer #1706 · Feb 19, 2026
It was the Wordle answer on February 19, 2026 (#1706).
Since February 2026, Wordle sometimes reuses past answers, so it could be the answer again.
What does HOIST mean?
/hɔɪst/
noun
- A hoisting device, such as pulley or crane.
- The act of hoisting; a lift.“Give me a hoist over that wall.”
- The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length, when flying from a staff.
2 more noun definitions
- The vertical edge of a flag which is next to the staff.
- The height of a fore-and-aft sail, next the mast or stay.
verb
- To raise; to lift; to elevate (especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, said of a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight).
- To lift a trophy or similar prize into the air in celebration of a victory.
- To lift someone up to be flogged.
3 more verb definitions
- To be lifted up.
- To extract (code) from a loop construct as part of optimization.
- To steal, to rob.
Definition from Wiktionary, available under the CC BY-SA license.
HOIST in Wordle
- Starter word rating
- AverageIn the top 34% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
- Vowels
- O, I
- Unique letters
- 5 of 5
- Common letters
- O, I, T
Hard-mode trap: 6 valid words fit the pattern
_OIST. If you reach it, you may need several guesses to find the last letter.
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