Is LOCAL a Wordle Word?

Yes. LOCAL is a valid Wordle word.

It was the Wordle answer on March 13, 2024 (#998).

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

What does LOCAL mean?

/ˈləʊkl̩/

A person who lives near a given place.“It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.”
A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.“I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.”
A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.“The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local.”

3 more noun definitions

One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.“I got barred from my local, so I've started going all the way into town for a drink.”
A locally scoped identifier.“Functional programming languages usually don't allow changing the immediate value of locals once they've been initialized, unless they're explicitly marked as being mutable.”
An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.

From or in a nearby location.“We prefer local produce.”
(of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.
(of a condition or state) Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.

2 more adjective definitions

Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.“The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied only local anesthesia.”
Descended from an indigenous population.“Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population.”

In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.“It's never been more important to buy local.”

An anesthetic (anesthetic substance) that causes loss of sensation only to the area to which it is applied.

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

Starter word rating: WeakIn the top 56% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels: O, A
Unique letters: 4 of 5Repeats L
Common letters: L, O, A

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