Is CITES a Wordle Word?

Yes. CITES is a valid Wordle word.

It is not on the Wordle answer list, so it is unlikely to be a daily answer.

Plurals ending in S are almost never chosen as Wordle answers.

What does CITES mean?

/saɪts/

To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.

A citation“We used the number of cites as a rough measure of the significance of each published paper.”

Definition from Wiktionary, available under the CC BY-SA license.

Starter word rating: GoodIn the top 10% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels: I, E
Unique letters: 5 of 5
Common letters: I, T, E

Hard-mode trap: 12 valid words fit the pattern _ITES. If you reach it, you may need several guesses to find the last letter.

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