Is RIVER a Wordle Word?
Yes. RIVER is a valid Wordle word.
- Valid guess
- Past answer #1929 · Sep 30, 2026
It was the Wordle answer on September 30, 2026 (#1929).
Since February 2026, Wordle sometimes reuses past answers, so it could be the answer again.
What does RIVER mean?
/ˈɹɪvə/
noun
- A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.“Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods.”
- Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.“a river of blood”
- The last card dealt in a hand.
1 more noun definition
- A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.
verb
- To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.“Johnny rivered me by drawing that ace of spades.”
Definition from Wiktionary, available under the CC BY-SA license.
RIVER in Wordle
- Starter word rating
- WeakIn the top 55% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
- Vowels
- I, E
- Unique letters
- 4 of 5Repeats R
- Common letters
- R, I, E
Hard-mode trap: 11 valid words fit the pattern
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