Is KINKY a Wordle Word?

Yes. KINKY is a valid Wordle word.

It is on the original Wordle answer list and has not been an answer yet, so it could be a future answer.

What does KINKY mean?

Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl.“kinky hair”
Marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior, as fetishism, sadomasochism, and other sexual practices.
Queer; eccentric; crotchety.

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

Starter word rating: WeakIn the top 95% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels: I
Unique letters: 4 of 5Repeats K
Common letters: I

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

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