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-NIFLE
or 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
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 | 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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