Is HANKS a Wordle Word?

Yes. HANKS 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 HANKS mean?

A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope.
A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down.
Doubt, difficulty.

4 more noun definitions

Mess, tangle.
A rope or withe for fastening a gate.
Hold; influence.
A throw in which a wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, twines his left leg about his opponent's right leg from the inside, and throws him backward.

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

Starter word rating: WeakIn the top 57% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels: A
Unique letters: 5 of 5
Common letters: A

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

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