Is STRAW a Wordle Word?

Yes. STRAW is a valid Wordle word.

It was the Wordle answer on June 30, 2023 (#741).

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

What does STRAW mean?

/stɹɔː/

noun

  1. A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
  2. Such dried stalks considered collectively.
  3. A drinking straw.
2 more noun definitions
  1. A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
  2. Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.

verb

  1. To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.
  2. To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.

adjective

  1. Made of straw.“straw hat”
  2. Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
  3. Imaginary, but presented as real.“A straw enemy built up in the media to seem like a real threat, which then collapses like a balloon.”

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

STRAW in Wordle

Starter word rating
AverageIn the top 19% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels
A
Unique letters
5 of 5
Common letters
T, R, A

Hard-mode trap: 7 valid words fit the pattern STRA_. If you reach it, you may need several guesses to find the last letter.

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