Is DRIES a Wordle Word?

Yes. DRIES 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 DRIES mean?

noun

  1. The process by which something is dried.“This towel is still damp: I think it needs another dry.”
  2. A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
  3. (with "the") The dry season.
2 more noun definitions
  1. An area of waterless country.
  2. (UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.

verb

  1. To lose moisture.“The clothes dried on the line.”
  2. To remove moisture from.“Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.”
  3. To be thirsty.
2 more verb definitions
  1. To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
  2. For an actor to forget his or her lines while performing.

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

DRIES in Wordle

Starter word rating
GoodIn the top 7% 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: 7 valid words fit the pattern _RIES. If you reach it, you may need several guesses to find the last letter.

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