adult A₁D₂U₁L₁T₁

Adult has several related senses: a full-grown animal, a person who has reached the age of majority, and something intended for mature users rather than children. The shared idea is maturity, but the noun and adjective uses do different work. The word also appears as a Wordle answer and is an allowed guess, so its familiar spelling has game value beyond everyday reading.

ADULT at a glance

• ADULT has five letters and uses A, D, U, L, and T.
• Its Scrabble value is 6: D contributes 2, and each other tile contributes 1.
• ADULT is both a Wordle answer and an allowed guess.
• The exact anagrams are DAULT and TAULD; ADUST is its sole one-letter neighbor.

Adult meaning in noun and adjective form

Adult works as both a noun and an adjective. As a noun, it means a full-grown animal or a person who has reached the legal age of majority; as an adjective, it describes something made for adults or at a mature level. Those senses let the same spelling describe a person, an animal, or material intended for mature readers.

That broad meaning makes ADULT clear in context, but its noun and adjective uses do different jobs: “an adult animal” uses the full-grown sense, while “adult content” marks an audience restriction. A clue about maturity points toward the adjective; a definition of a person points toward the noun.

ADULT is included in Collins, NWL2023, and ENABLE. Game acceptance depends on the dictionary your table uses, so check that list before playing; a familiar everyday meaning does not guarantee every game uses the same lexicon.

How does ADULT score and connect to other words?

Six points is a modest total because only D is worth more than one point; A, U, L, and T are single-point tiles. On a blank board, those values add to 6. A premium square changes the turn's total, so judge ADULT by placement rather than its base score alone.

ADULT has two anagrams, DAULT and TAULD. Its only one-letter neighbor is ADUST, which changes the final letter from L to S. That narrow neighbor set gives a precise check when a rack or pattern leaves one tile uncertain.

Rhyme search returns 12 words around the -ult ending, including fault, vault, result, and insult. Pronunciation varies across accents, so treat the shared ending as a spelling clue rather than a guarantee of a perfect rhyme.