Is SHARD a Wordle Word?

Yes. SHARD is a valid Wordle word.

It was the Wordle answer on February 3, 2022 (#229).

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

What does SHARD mean?

/ʃaːd/

noun

  1. A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
  2. (by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
  3. A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
3 more noun definitions
  1. An instance of an MMORPG that is one of several independent and structurally identical virtual worlds, none of which has so many players as to exhaust a system's resources.
  2. A component of a sharded distributed database.
  3. (singular or plural) A piece of crystal methamphetamine.

verb

  1. To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.
  2. To break (something) into shards.
  3. To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.

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

SHARD in Wordle

Starter word rating
AverageIn the top 26% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels
A
Unique letters
5 of 5
Common letters
A, R

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