Is CRIES a Wordle Word?

Yes. CRIES 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 CRIES mean?

/kɹaɪ̯z/

A shedding of tears; the act of crying.“After we broke up, I retreated to my room for a good cry.”
A shout or scream.“I heard a cry from afar.”
Words shouted or screamed.“a battle cry”

6 more noun definitions

A clamour or outcry.
A group of hounds.
(by extension) A pack or company of people.
(of an animal) A typical sound made by the species in question.“"Woof" is the cry of a dog, while "neigh" is the cry of a horse.”
A desperate or urgent request.
Common report; gossip.

4 more verb definitions

To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.“Tonight I'll cry myself to sleep.”
To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, etc.“to cry goods”
Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.

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

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

Hard-mode trap: 9 valid words fit the pattern CRI_S. If you reach it, you may need several guesses to find the last letter.

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