Is STIFF a Wordle Word?

Yes. STIFF is a valid Wordle word.

It was the Wordle answer on February 9, 2024 (#965).

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

What does STIFF mean?

/stɪf/

An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education, often a working stiff or lucky stiff.“A Working Stiff's Manifesto: A Memoir of Thirty Jobs I Quit, Nine That Fired Me, and Three I Can't Remember was published in 2003.”
A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.“She convinced the stiff to go to her hotel room, where her henchman was waiting to rob him.”
A cadaver; a dead person.

5 more noun definitions

To fail to pay that which one owes (implicitly or explicitly) to another, especially by departing hastily.“Realizing he had forgotten his wallet, he stiffed the taxi driver when the cab stopped for a red light.”
To cheat someone
To tip ungenerously

(of an object) Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.
(of policies and rules and their application and enforcement) Inflexible; rigid.
(of a person) Formal in behavior; unrelaxed.

8 more adjective definitions

Harsh, severe.“He was eventually caught, and given a stiff fine.”
(of muscles or parts of the body) Painful as a result of excessive or unaccustomed exercise.“My legs are stiff after climbing that hill yesterday.”
Potent.“a stiff drink; a stiff dose; a stiff breeze.”
Dead, deceased.
(of a penis) Erect.
(of whipping cream or egg whites) Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their own.“beat the egg whites until they are stiff”
Of an equation: for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small.
Keeping upright.

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

Starter word rating: WeakIn the top 86% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels: I
Unique letters: 4 of 5Repeats F
Common letters: T, I

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