Goethe
6 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the celebrated German poet, novelist, and playwright of the 18th and 19th centuries, best known for Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther.
“The professor opened the lecture by quoting Goethe on the nature of human ambition.”
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Syllables
goe·the
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Contains the TH digraph and three vowels (O, E, E), a proper noun so not valid in standard Wordle
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Scrabble
Not valid in standard Scrabble as a proper noun, its component letters G, O, E, T, H, E are individually versatile
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