Is WAVER a Wordle Word?
Yes. WAVER is a valid Wordle word.
- Valid guess
- Past answer #1790 · May 14, 2026
It was the Wordle answer on May 14, 2026 (#1790).
Since February 2026, Wordle sometimes reuses past answers, so it could be the answer again.
What does WAVER mean?
/ˈweɪ.və(ɹ)/
noun
- An act of wavering, vacillating, etc.
- Someone who waves, enjoys waving, etc.“I felt encouraged by all the enthusiastic wavers in the crowd.”
- Someone who specializes in waving (hair treatment).
2 more noun definitions
- A tool that accomplishes hair waving.
- A sapling left standing in a fallen wood.
verb
- To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.“Flowers wavered in the breeze.”
- To flicker, glimmer, quiver, as a weak light.
- To fluctuate or vary, as commodity prices or a poorly sustained musical pitch.
3 more verb definitions
- To shake or tremble, as the hands or voice.“His voice wavered when the reporter brought up the controversial topic.”
- To falter; become unsteady; begin to fail or give way.
- To be indecisive between choices; to feel or show doubt or indecision; to vacillate.“Despite all the terrible things that happened to her, she never wavered from her beliefs.”
Definition from Wiktionary, available under the CC BY-SA license.
WAVER in Wordle
- Starter word rating
- AverageIn the top 24% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
- Vowels
- A, E
- Unique letters
- 5 of 5
- Common letters
- A, E, R
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