Is THORN a Wordle Word?

Yes. THORN is a valid Wordle word.

It was the Wordle answer on February 22, 2022 (#248).

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

What does THORN mean?

/θɔːn/

noun

  1. A sharp protective spine of a plant.
  2. Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn.“the cockspur thorn”
  3. That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.
1 more noun definition
  1. A letter of Latin script (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed from the futhark; today used only in Icelandic to represent the voiceless dental fricative, but originally used in several early Germanic scripts, including Old English where it represented the dental fricatives that are today written th (Old English did not have phonemic voicing distinctions for fricatives).

verb

  1. To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn

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

THORN in Wordle

Starter word rating
AverageIn the top 26% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels
O
Unique letters
5 of 5
Common letters
T, O, R

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