Is SHIRE a Wordle Word?
Yes. SHIRE is a valid Wordle word.
- Valid guess
- Past answer #212 · Jan 17, 2022
It was the Wordle answer on January 17, 2022 (#212).
Since February 2026, Wordle sometimes reuses past answers, so it could be the answer again.
What does SHIRE mean?
/ʃaɪə(ɹ)/
noun
- Physical area administered by a sheriff.
- Former administrative area of Britain; a county.“Yorkshire is the largest shire in England.”
- The general area in which a person lives or comes from, used in the context of travel within the United Kingdom.“When are you coming back to the shire?”
2 more noun definitions
- A rural or outer suburban local government area of Australia.
- A shire horse.
verb
- To (re)constitute as one or more shires or counties.“County Longford was shired in 1586”
Definition from Wiktionary, available under the CC BY-SA license.
SHIRE in Wordle
- Starter word rating
- GoodIn the top 6% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
- Vowels
- I, E
- Unique letters
- 5 of 5
- Common letters
- I, R, E
Letter ratings use how often each letter appears in Wordle answers.
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