Is LACKS a Wordle Word?

Yes. LACKS 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 LACKS mean?

/læks/

noun

  1. A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
  2. A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.

verb

  1. To be without, to need, to require.“My life lacks excitement.”
  2. To be short (of or for something).“He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money.”
  3. To be in want.
1 more verb definition
  1. To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.

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

LACKS in Wordle

Starter word rating
WeakIn the top 45% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels
A
Unique letters
5 of 5
Common letters
L, A

Hard-mode trap: 15 valid words fit the pattern _ACKS. If you reach it, you may need several guesses to find the last letter.

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