Is TARDY a Wordle Word?
Yes. TARDY is a valid Wordle word.
- Valid guess
- Past answer #881 · Nov 17, 2023
It was the Wordle answer on November 17, 2023 (#881).
Since February 2026, Wordle sometimes reuses past answers, so it could be the answer again.
What does TARDY mean?
/ˈtɑːdi/
noun
- A piece of paper given to students who are late to class.“The teacher gave her a tardy because she did not come into the classroom until after the bell.”
- An instance of a student being marked as tardy by a teacher in his or her attendance sheet.
verb
- To make tardy.
adjective
- Late; overdue or delayed.“He yawned, then raised a tardy hand over his mouth.”
- Moving with a slow pace or motion; not swift.
- Ineffectual; slow-witted, slow to act, or dull.“His tardy performance bordered on incompetence.”
2 more adjective definitions
- Unwary; unready (especially in the phrase take (someone) tardy).
- Criminal; guilty.
Definition from Wiktionary, available under the CC BY-SA license.
TARDY in Wordle
- Starter word rating
- AverageIn the top 20% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
- Vowels
- A
- Unique letters
- 5 of 5
- Common letters
- T, A, R
Hard-mode trap: 8 valid words fit the pattern
_ARDY. If you reach it, you may need several guesses to find the last letter.
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