Is WHACK a Wordle Word?
Yes. WHACK is a valid Wordle word.
- Valid guess
- Past answer #221 · Jan 26, 2022
It was the Wordle answer on January 26, 2022 (#221).
Since February 2026, Wordle sometimes reuses past answers, so it could be the answer again.
What does WHACK mean?
/wæk/
adjective
- Egregious.
- Bad (not good), inauthentic, of an inferior quality, contemptible, lacking integrity, lame, or strange.“Every record they ever made was straight-up wack.”
- Crazy, mad, insane.
1 more adjective definition
- Cool, bizarre, and potentially scary.
noun
- The sound of a heavy strike.
- The strike itself.
- The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact.
5 more noun definitions
- An attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something.“40 bucks a whack.”
- (originally Britain cant) A share, a portion, especially a full share or large portion.
- A whack-up: a division of an amount into separate whacks, a divvying up.
- A deal, an agreement.“It's a whack!”
- The backslash, ⟨ ⟩.
verb
- To hit, slap or strike.
- To kill, bump off.
- To share or parcel out; often with up.“to whack the spoils of a robbery”
2 more verb definitions
- To beat convincingly; to thrash.
- (usually in the negative) To surpass; to better.
Definition from Wiktionary, available under the CC BY-SA license.
WHACK in Wordle
- Starter word rating
- WeakIn the top 86% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
- Vowels
- A
- Unique letters
- 5 of 5
- Common letters
- A
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