Is YEAST a Wordle Word?

Yes. YEAST is a valid Wordle word.

It was the Wordle answer on May 10, 2025 (#1421).

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

What does YEAST mean?

/iːst/

noun

  1. An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
  2. A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
  3. A frothy foam.

verb

  1. To ferment.
  2. (of something prepared with a yeasted dough) To rise.
  3. To exaggerate

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

YEAST in Wordle

Starter word rating
GoodIn the top 4% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels
E, A
Unique letters
5 of 5
Common letters
E, A, T

Hard-mode trap: 6 valid words fit the pattern _EAST. If you reach it, you may need several guesses to find the last letter.

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