Is PEELS a Wordle Word?

Yes. PEELS 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 PEELS mean?

/piːlz/

noun

  1. A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin.

noun

  1. (usually uncountable) The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
  2. The action of peeling away from a formation.
  3. A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.

verb

  1. To remove the skin or outer covering of.“I sat by my sister's bed, peeling oranges for her.”
  2. To remove something from the outer or top layer of.“I peeled (the skin from) a banana and ate it hungrily.”
  3. To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.“I had been out in the sun too long, and my nose was starting to peel.”
2 more verb definitions
  1. To remove one's clothing.“The children peeled by the side of the lake and jumped in.”
  2. To move, separate (off or away).“The scrum-half peeled off and made for the touchlines.”

noun

  1. A stake.
  2. A fence made of stakes; a stockade.
  3. A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.

noun

  1. A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.
  2. A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
  3. The blade of an oar.

noun

  1. An equal or match; a draw.
  2. A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.

verb

  1. To play a peel shot.

verb

  1. To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).

verb

  1. To plunder; to pillage, rob.

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PEELS in Wordle

Starter word rating
WeakIn the top 56% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels
E
Unique letters
4 of 5Repeats E
Common letters
E, L

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