Unusual Wordle Words

A collaboration between @Documentalista and @Dez, now with new contributions from @Wordler and friends

See also: https://rentry.co/wordle-meta-list

for inspirations see also:
words included in Heterograms: https://rentry.co/W5W25L742
Onomatopaeic Wordles https://rentry.co/Echoic_Words
Palindromes https://rentry.co/all-wordle-palindromes
VWXYZ https://rentry.co/wordle-vwxyz

@Wordler's Wacky Words of Wordle aka Weirdles - May 2025

Wordler post on April 17: https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/46tr73
@Wordler post April 25 https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/474aef

May 1: CWTCH @Rad
May 2: YIPPY @Rufer
May 3: QUASH @Janet
May 4: WOOZY @SamplesDriscolll
May 5: JAMBU @Jn
May 6: SYLPH @Jay
May 7: QUAWK @Kenny includes more animals named for their cry - add to Echoic words list
May 8: RHYME @Anita,Sydney
May 9: MYRRH @U-Roy
May 10: WHORL @YoDawg
May 11: KOALA @Peter, Mount Compass, Australia
May 12: GALAH @Martin - Sydney
May 13: FEOFF [@Neil Heywood] did not findhis post
May 14: DINGO suggested in a chat between @Pete, @Anita and @DI
May 15: HERTZ @BigFatCat
May 16:COATI @Quite Contrary
May 17: ENOKI @VMMP id not actually used their starter;@VMMP May 18
May 18:LEXIS @Dez
May 19:FLANE @Rosie
May 20 - May 29: PALINDROMES
May 20: 2 word palindrome: ELFIN-NIFLEor ALULA both choices sponsored by @Couchpumpkin who however played instead a full five word palindrome + solution EMONG STRAW CIVIC WARTS GNOME
May 21: ROTOR Palindrome @Monika
May 22: DELED Palindrome @WT
May 23: SHAHS Palindrome @Martin, Sydney
May 24: ANANA Palindrome @Myle
May 25: RADAR Palindrome [@Rachel] could not find post
May 26: STATS Palindrome @Miss Sunshine
May 27: CIVIC Palindrome [@Me] did not find a post
May 28: KAYAK Palindrome @Linda
May 29: MINIM Palindrome NESB is Still Thinking
END OF PALINDROMES
May 30NIDUS @Documentalista
May 31: QAJAQ @Wordler

Summer 2023

Aug 11 ASHET - @Dez ; @Documentalista
Aug 12 BROCK -@Dez ; @Documentalista
Aug 13 COMPT - @Dez; @Documentalista
Aug 14 DUCES TECUM - @Dez; @Documentalista
Aug 15 ETYMA - @Dez; @Documentalista
Aug 16 - FLANE @Dez; @Documentalista
Aug 17 - GARTH @Dez; @Documentalista
Aug 18 - HAPAX @Dez; @Documentalista
Aug 19 - INDEW @Dez; @Documentalista
Aug 20 - JAMBU @Dez; @Documentalista
Aug 21 - KNAWE @Dez; @Documentalista
Aug 22 - LOWEN @Dez; @Documentalista
Aug 23 - MESIC @Dez; @Documentalista
Aug 24 - NEMPT @Dez; @Documentalista
Aug 25 - OXLIP @Dez; @Documentalista
Aug 26 - PAWKY @Dez; @Documentalista
Aug 27 - QUIRE @Dez; @Documentalista
Aug 28 - ROSTI @Dez; @Documentalista
Aug 29 - SHENT @Dez; @Documentalista
Aug 30 - THOLE @Dez ; @Documentalista
Aug 31 - UDYOG @Dez; @Documentalista
Sept 1 - VATJE ; @Dez; @Documentalista
Sept. 2 - WHAUP @Dez ; @Documentalista
Sept 3 - XYLAN @Dez ; @Documentalista
Sept 4 - YRNEH @Dez; @Documentalista
Sept 5 - ZORRO @Dez; @Documentalista

The List

AGONE (ago, poetic / archaic)
ANANA (pineapple, alt. form of ananas)
ASHET (N. dialect, from assiette: a platter)
BARBE (barb; more interesting: a term of respect derived from the Latin for "bearded" and borrowed from French where it was connected to a very particular period / use / community: the Vaudois)
BEWET (wet; belled strap round a hawk's leg < beuette)
BLART (bleat, bellow, cry)
BORAK (Australian slang: to poke borak: to make fun, nonsense)
BOTHY (hut; body)
BREES, BRIES, BROOS (pl. of bree, brie, broo: brew)
BROCH, BROGH, BRUGH (prehistoric circular stone fort)
BROCK (badger or one who stinks like one; 2nd year hart; BRUCK larva; etc)
BRUCK (a kind of locust; rubbish)
BURSE, BIRZE (crush, < bruise)
CANTY (gladsome)
CARON (a diacritic mark: inverted circumflex)
CETYL (chem. radical C16H33, cf. ETHAL)
CHYLE ([gross - it doesn't mean gross, the definition is gross])
CHYME (chime)
CLOKE (clutch; cloak; clock; to claw/scratch)
CLOYE (cloy; accloy - prick, clog up)
COLIN (American quail aka bobwhite)
COMBY (comb-like)
COMPT (count; elegant, polished)
COURE (cower)
CRAIG (crag; neck)
CRONK, CRUNK (echoic: a raven's or wild goose's cry; cf. Icelandic krúnk)
CROUT (croak)
CWTCH (a cuddle, a hug, also a cubby-hole, a hiding place)
DERNY (cycle-racing motorized pace bike)
DERTH (dearth)
DIDOS (dido: a prank or caper; a thrice-told tale)
DROIL (drudge)
DROUK (drench)
DUCES (see DUCES TECUM)
ENDEW, ENDUE (see INDEW, INDUE)
EPHOD (a certain priestly cloak)
ERGOT (related to ARGOT sense of a cock's spur for the shape of the growth)
ESTOC (sword)
ETHAL (obs. for CETYL alcohol)
ETUIS (etui: case for cosmetic / surgical instruments)
ETYMA (pl. of etymon)
FEOFF (Law. obs. v transitive. To put in legal possession; also In wider sense: To present (a person) with anything)
FICOS (fico, fig esp. as in "couldn't give a fig")
FILON (mineral or metal vein; geologic dike)
FLANE (an arrow; to laze)
FLOCS (floc,flocculus) 
FLUYT (nautical flute, a kind of sailing vessel)
FOULE (var. of about every f**l word! (except feel))
FROOM (var. frum: strictly orthodox)
GARTH (< Norse: yard, usu. combined eg kirk-garth = churchyard)
GLEED (sideyed;glow)
GLUME (the husk of a grain)
HAPAX (_ legomenon: used once only in the corpus)
HAULM (helm, lay hay for thatching)
INDEW, INDUE (introduce; digest; instruct; clothe; invest—also ENDEW, ENDUE)
ISTLE, IXTLE (certain fiber used for nets, carpet, etc)
JAMBO, JAMBU (Rose Apple, Java Plum, or Malay Apple)
JAMUN (fruit of Eugenia jambolana < Hindi)
JOCKY (jockey)
JOURS (US colloq.: journeymen; pl. jour)
KERVE (carve)
KNAWE (knave)
KREEP (1971–A substance found on the moon as glassy fragments and as a constituent of fines and breccias, characterized by a high content of potassium, phosphorus, and rare-earth elements and unusually little iron. used by [@Shawm May 23, 2025](https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/47nn3l) in all caps in OED)
LEXIS see [@Dez](https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/473p47)
LOCHE (loch; loach)
LOURE (louvre)
LOWND, LOWNE, LOWEN (lown, calm)
LUCES (luce: pike, hake (fish))
MATHE (grub)
MESIC (medium moisture)
NEMPT (named)
NIDUS (infection reservoir)
NIQAB (see burqa, hijab)
NOMIC (conventional)
NOTUM (insect's tergum-did that help?)
OLEUM (fuming sulphuric acid)
ORLOP (lowest deck of a ship over the cargo hold: also a type of joint -from overlap)
OSMOL (chem. var. osmole)
OXLIP (oxslip, intermediate btw. cowslip & primrose)
PANIM (loosely: land of the pagans or heathens)
PAWKY (wry, arch, roguish < pawk (Puck?))
PEART (lively, cheerful)
PELON (< Spanish, bald; also var. PILÓN)
PILÓN (< Spanish, a little something extra with a purchase)
PLOMB (plum; plumb; plombe)
PODGY (pudgy)
POENA (penalty)
POIND (seize & sell assets; var. pound)
POSTE (post)
PRASE (praise; also a leek-green quartzite; see prasine < Greek praso)
PRENT (print; prink)
PRINK (blink, wink (an eye))
PYRUS (pear tree genus)
QUIRE (choir; pamphlet; queer; query)
QUIST (wood pigeon)
RAITH (quarter-year; rate; wreath)
RATHE (quickly, early)
RIVES (verb rive: to cleave, cf. riven)
ROATE (rote)
ROIST, ROYST (roister: behave boisterously)
RÖSTI (Swiss latke)
ROOSE (var. rise, rose, ruse, rouse; (make —) praise)
RUGAE (anat. deep folds (sing. ruga))
SCART, SCRAT (scratch; see also SKART)
SCOBE (Irish slang: a deplorable one)
SCRAG (a lean one & not in a nice way; neck; scraggly)
SEELY (silly, but much more too)
SEPOY (borrowed from Urdu; a kind of Indian mercenary under English command)
SETER (setter; outfield < saeter)
SHENT SHEND (disgraced,shamed,ruined. See https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2013/02/telling-truth.html)
SKART (var. scart: cormorant)
SKYRE (var. of SKIRE not accepted)
SMALT (deep blue pulverized glass pigment)
SPANE (variant SPAIN = weaning a lamb, corn yellowing and taking root)
SPULE (animal shoulder; spool)
STICH (stitch; also a line of prose or verse (pronounced "stick" in this use and < Greek))
STIME, STYME (glimmer, glimpse)
STOEP (stoop; borrowed fr. Dutch to S. African English)
STOOK (standard conical drying arrangement of corn stalks or similar)
STOUR (dust cloud; stiff; var. store; punt-pole stower)
SWIVE (copulate)
SWOLL (swollen; swivel)
SYTHE (sieve; scythe)
TAKHI (Przewalski's horse)
TECUM (see DUCES TECUM)
TENCH (a carp-like freshwater fish; penitentiary)
TENGE (monetary unit; possibly hapaxic var. of tench: "nym luyss or tenge, or other manere fish")
THOLE (peg; oarlock)
TOMAN, TOMEN (myriad: 10K men/monies < Persian)
TRAVE (two STOOKs of corn)
TRODE (archaic: trod)
UDYOG (udyoga: Indian English for "enterprise")
UNODE (obscure old geometry or new cryptogrammery)
VAIRY (heraldry: varied or variegated)
VAKIL (envoy, agent)
VARIX (a varicose vein)
VATJE (small cask or keg, from Afrikaans)
VIVDA, VIFDA (unsalted dried meat)
WADDY (Aus. aboriginal war club; U.S. slang: rustler, temp. cowhand)
WAMUS (a knit jacket < Dutch wammes)
WATAP (tree roots that can be woven into watertight containers among other uses)
WHAUP (the larger curlew)
WHISS (whistle, whizz; lash w/ something pliant)
WITHE (a tie of flexible twig or several twisted together; also to tie or snare with such material)
WOMBY (obs. carnal; hollow, womb-like)
WRICK (sprain, strain; jerk side to side; to exert for definite purpose)
XERIC (scant moisture)
XYLAN (tree-gum, wood-gum)
XYSTI (pl. of xystus: gymnasium portico for Greco/Roman exercise in bad weather)
YCLAD (clad, clothed)
YODLE (yodel)
YOURT (yurt)
YRNEH (inverse impedance: henry reversed)
YSAME (together)
ZAIRE (currency)
ZAMIA (genus similar to dwarf palm)
ZIBET (a variant of civet)
ZOOID (resembling an animal)
ZORRO (borrowed from Spanish: fox)
ZYMIC (pertaining to fermentation)
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Pub: 02 Sep 2023 23:02 UTC

Edit: 31 May 2025 17:52 UTC

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