Has This Word Been a Wordle Answer? Check Any Word
Type any five-letter word into the tool below and see whether it has been a Wordle answer. If it has, you get the puzzle number and the date it was used. If it has not, you get a plain not-yet line dated to yesterday’s puzzle. Today’s answer is never part of the check, so nothing you type can leak the current word.
How to read the result
Two outcomes are possible, and the exact wording of each matters.
A green result means the word has been a Wordle answer, and it gives you the puzzle number and the date. If the word has been used twice, both appearances are shown. Type CIGAR, for example, and you see two entries — puzzle #0 on 19 June 2021, when it opened the game, and puzzle #1,689 on 2 February 2026, when it became Wordle’s first ever repeat.
An amber result means the word has not been an answer through yesterday’s puzzle, and it says so in those bounded terms. It is not a claim that the word will never appear, only that it has not appeared up to and including the most recent puzzle in the archive. Today’s answer is deliberately left out of the check, which is why the wording is bounded rather than absolute.
That bound is why the tool never leaks today’s word. If today’s answer happened to be the word you typed, the amber line would still be true — it has not been an answer through yesterday — and no result on this page ever confirms or rules out the current puzzle by process of elimination.
If you type fewer than five letters, more than five, or something that is not a real word, the tool prompts you for a valid five-letter word before it will run the check.
Why this tool exists
People land on this exact question for a few reasons. Some are settling a friendly argument about whether a word has ever come up. Some are mid-puzzle, holding a promising guess and wanting to know if it has already been used before they spend a line on it. Some are chasing a memory that feels familiar and want to confirm it.
A dedicated lookup page beats scrolling a long archive for one reason: one keystroke resolves the question. There is no scrolling, no scanning, and no chance of accidentally reading past today’s answer on the way to the word you actually wanted to check.
The same word check is available on the homepage inside the wider tool, alongside the filters and the full complete archive of past Wordle answers. This page exists for readers who want the verdict on one word and nothing else.
What happens when a new answer drops
Today’s Wordle answer only enters the archive after the New York Times publishes it and the daily cross-check completes, shortly after midnight US Eastern. From that moment on, the tool recognises yesterday’s answer as used and returns its puzzle number and date on a green result.
In the gap between the reveal and the update, the tool continues to say today’s answer has not been used through the previous day, which is still true—the archive simply has not caught up yet. The line beneath the tool shows exactly when the last update landed and how many answers the check now runs against, so you can confirm the tool is current before relying on it.
Common single-word lookups
A handful of words come up in searches far more often than the rest. ADIEU gets asked about constantly because it packs four vowels into five letters, so people wonder if it has ever been an answer. STEAL, GREAT and LEAST come up because they use so many common letters that players expect them to have appeared. Each of those words has its own page, where the same verdict sits alongside the reasoning behind the assumption and any related trivia worth knowing.
You do not need to click through to any of them — the tool above returns the same verdict, faster. The individual pages exist mainly for readers arriving from search with one specific word already in mind.
FAQ
Does typing a word here reveal today’s Wordle answer?
No. The tool checks your word against every answer up to yesterday’s puzzle, and today’s answer is deliberately excluded. Whatever you type, the result never confirms or rules out today’s word, so you can check a candidate mid-game without any risk of a spoiler.
What does an amber result actually mean?
An amber result means the word has not been a Wordle answer through yesterday’s puzzle, with today’s answer left out of the check. It is a bounded statement rather than a claim the word will never appear, since any five-letter word remains a possible future answer.
Why does a green result sometimes show two dates?
Since 2 February 2026, Wordle has reused past answers. If the word you type has been used more than once, the tool returns every appearance with its puzzle number and date, so you see the full history rather than only the first or most recent time it came up.
How current is the check?
The archive updates automatically each day shortly after midnight US Eastern. The line beneath the tool shows how many past answers the check runs against and the date it covers through, so you can confirm the tool is up to date before you type your word.