Is MERIT a Wordle Word?
Yes. MERIT is a valid Wordle word.
- Valid guess
- Past answer #429 · Aug 22, 2022
It was the Wordle answer on August 22, 2022 (#429).
Since February 2026, Wordle sometimes reuses past answers, so it could be the answer again.
What does MERIT mean?
/ˈmɛɹət/
noun
- A claim to commendation or a reward.
- A mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence.“For her good performance in the examination, her teacher gave her ten merits.”
- Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward.“His reward for his merit was a check for $50.”
3 more noun definitions
- The sum of all the good deeds that a person does which determines the quality of the person's next state of existence and contributes to the person's growth towards enlightenment.“to acquire or make merit”
- Usually in the plural form the merits: the substantive rightness or wrongness of a legal argument, a lawsuit, etc., as opposed to technical matters such as the admissibility of evidence or points of legal procedure; (by extension) the overall good or bad quality, or rightness or wrongness, of some other thing.“Even though the plaintiff was ordered by the judge to pay some costs for not having followed the correct procedure, she won the case on the merits.”
- The quality or state of deserving retribution, whether reward or punishment.
verb
- To deserve, to earn.“Her performance merited wild applause.”
- To be deserving or worthy.“They were punished as they merited.”
- To reward.
Definition from Wiktionary, available under the CC BY-SA license.
MERIT in Wordle
- Starter word rating
- GoodIn the top 7% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
- Vowels
- E, I
- Unique letters
- 5 of 5
- Common letters
- E, R, I, T
Letter ratings use how often each letter appears in Wordle answers.
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