Is PAPER a Wordle Word?

Yes. PAPER is a valid Wordle word.

It was the Wordle answer on July 24, 2021 (#35).

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

What does PAPER mean?

/ˈpeɪpə/

noun

  1. A sheet material used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.
  2. A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
  3. Wallpaper.
13 more noun definitions
  1. Wrapping paper.
  2. (rock paper scissors) An open hand (a handshape resembling a sheet of paper), that beats rock and loses to scissors. It loses to lizard and beats Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
  3. A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper, term paper), in particular one written for the Government.
  4. A written document that reports scientific or academic research and is usually subjected to peer review before publication in a scientific journal (as a journal article or the manuscript for one) or in the proceedings of a scientific or academic meeting (such as a conference, workshop, or symposium).
  5. A scholastic essay.
  6. A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.
  7. Money.
  8. A university course.
  9. A paper packet containing a quantity of items.“a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc.”
  10. A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.“cantharides paper”
  11. A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.
  12. Free passes of admission to a theatre, etc.
  13. (by extension) The people admitted by free passes.

verb

  1. To apply paper to.“to paper the hallway walls”
  2. To document; to memorialize.“After they reached an agreement, their staffs papered it up.”
  3. To fill (a theatre or other paid event) with complimentary seats.“As the event has not sold well, we'll need to paper the house.”
5 more verb definitions
  1. To submit official papers to (a law court, etc.).
  2. To give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.
  3. To sandpaper.
  4. To enfold in paper.
  5. To paste the endpapers and flyleaves at the beginning and end of a book before fitting it into its covers.

adjective

  1. Made of paper.“paper bag; paper plane”
  2. Insubstantial (from the weakness of common paper)“paper tiger; paper gangster”
  3. Planned (from plans being drawn up on paper)“paper rocket; paper engine”
1 more adjective definition
  1. Having a title that is merely official, or given by courtesy or convention.“a paper baron; a paper lord”

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

PAPER in Wordle

Starter word rating
AverageIn the top 24% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels
A, E
Unique letters
4 of 5Repeats P
Common letters
A, E, R

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