Is PAINS a Wordle Word?

Yes. PAINS 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 PAINS mean?

/peɪnz/

An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.“I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.”
The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress“In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.”
(from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.“Your mother is a right pain.”

2 more noun definitions

Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.“You may not leave this room on pain of death.”
(chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.

To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.“The wound pained him.”
To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.“It pains me to say that I must let you go.”
To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

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

Starter word rating: AverageIn the top 28% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels: A, I
Unique letters: 5 of 5
Common letters: A, I

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