Is COUPS a Wordle Word?

Yes. COUPS 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 COUPS mean?

/kuːz/

A quick, brilliant, and highly successful act.
(of Native Americans) A blow against an enemy delivered in a way that shows bravery.
A coup d'état.

3 more noun definitions

(by extension) A takeover of one group by another.
A single roll of the wheel at roulette, or a deal in rouge et noir.
One of various named strategies employed by the declarer to win more tricks, such as the Bath coup.

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

Starter word rating: WeakIn the top 65% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels: O, U
Unique letters: 5 of 5
Common letters: O

Hard-mode trap: 7 valid words fit the pattern _OUPS. If you reach it, you may need several guesses to find the last letter.

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