Mendel
6 lettersnounmoderateUpdated June 2026
Definition
Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian friar and botanist whose 19th-century experiments with garden peas established the foundational principles of heredity and genetics.
“Mendel's work on inheritance was not widely recognised until long after his death.”
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men·del
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Wordle
No repeated letters. The ENDEL suffix is distinctive. Worth noting the EL ending for Wordle.
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Worth 9 points as a proper noun, but proper nouns are not valid in standard Scrabble.
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