Is CRABS a Wordle Word?

Yes. CRABS 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 CRABS mean?

/kɹæbz/

noun

  1. A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
  2. The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat
  3. A bad-tempered person.
5 more noun definitions
  1. (in plural crabs) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).“Although crabs themselves are an easily treated inconvenience, the patient and his partner(s) clearly run major STD risks.”
  2. A playing card with the rank of three.
  3. A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
  4. A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
  5. An unsold book that is returned to the publisher.

verb

  1. To fish for crabs.
  2. To ruin.
  3. To complain.
5 more verb definitions
  1. To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
  2. To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
  3. To move (a camera) sideways.
  4. (World War I), to fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk.
  5. To back out of something.

noun

  1. The crab apple or wild apple.
  2. The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
  3. A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
4 more noun definitions
  1. A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
  2. A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
  3. A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
  4. A claw for anchoring a portable machine.

verb

  1. (obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour
  2. To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
  3. (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick

noun

  1. The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.

noun

  1. Short for carabiner.

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

CRABS in Wordle

Starter word rating
AverageIn the top 28% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels
A
Unique letters
5 of 5
Common letters
R, A

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