# Have you learned any new words from wordle?

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**Created:** [February 24, 2022, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-learned-any-new-words-from-wordle/960029 "2022-02-24T03:55:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-learned-any-new-words-from-wordle/960029/1 "2022-02-24T03:55:38Z")

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I’m going through the archive, and have taken quite a few stab in the dark answers, thus adding new words to my vocabulary.

Pronk - that sproingy movement that the antelope-type critters you see in nature shows use to escape the lions.

Rownd - to speak softly

And grogy is valid, fut flowy is not.

Have y’all run into any words you didn’t know?

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-learned-any-new-words-from-wordle/960029/2 "2022-02-24T13:38:03Z")

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Interesting. I don’t generally play words that I know cannot be the answer (i.e. what I call “Scrabble words.”) So, for me, no. But those are interesting ones. I would never even have thought to try “rownd” as a possible valid word.

ETA: Wait – I thought you were joking at first, as I tried out “rownd” and it was not a word in any dictionary I could find, but “pronk” was. So, where did you find “rownd”?

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**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-learned-any-new-words-from-wordle/960029/3 "2022-02-24T14:30:50Z")

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I googled it, as well as pronk.

Rownd might be from Welsh since they use W as a vowel.

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-learned-any-new-words-from-wordle/960029/4 "2022-02-24T14:38:40Z")

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Yeah, the only thing I could find was in wiktionary, where it claims it as Welsh. Fun word. It’s not even in the official Scrabble words dictionary or the tournament word list, but it is in SOWPODS (I forget what it stands for), so pretty darned obscure and I’m surprised it’s allowed.

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**Author:** ![tim-n-va](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim-n-va/32/3001_2.png) [@tim-n-va](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim-n-va)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-learned-any-new-words-from-wordle/960029/5 "2022-02-24T19:07:46Z")

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Indirectly. An article about the game suggested maximum potential information from REAST. I had never heard that word before.

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**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-learned-any-new-words-from-wordle/960029/6 "2022-02-26T05:45:52Z")

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Another one -

suder - cork or the layer of the tree’s trunk that produces it