Is SHINE a Wordle Word?
Yes. SHINE is a valid Wordle word.
- Valid guess
- Past answer #324 · May 9, 2022
It was the Wordle answer on May 9, 2022 (#324).
Since February 2026, Wordle sometimes reuses past answers, so it could be the answer again.
What does SHINE mean?
noun
- Brightness from a source of light.
- Brightness from reflected light.
- Excellence in quality or appearance; splendour.
6 more noun definitions
- Shoeshine.
- Sunshine.
- Moonshine; illicitly brewed alcoholic drink.
- The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
- A liking for a person; a fancy.“She's certainly taken a shine to you.”
- A caper; an antic; a row.
verb
- To emit light.
- To reflect light.
- To distinguish oneself; to excel.“My nephew tried other sports before deciding on football, which he shone at right away, quickly becoming the star of his school team.”
6 more verb definitions
- To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
- To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
- To be immediately apparent.
- To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).“I shone my light into the darkness to see what was making the noise.”
- To cause to shine, as a light.
- To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light.“in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them”
Definition from Wiktionary, available under the CC BY-SA license.
SHINE in Wordle
- Starter word rating
- AverageIn the top 18% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
- Vowels
- I, E
- Unique letters
- 5 of 5
- Common letters
- I, E
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