Is RIVEL a Wordle Word?

Yes. RIVEL is a valid Wordle word.

It is not on the Wordle answer list, so it is unlikely to be a daily answer.

What does RIVEL mean?

/ˈɹɪvəl/

To shrivel, wrinkle (up).
To cause to be wrinkled, to shrivel.“they crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many anatomies […]”

A wrinkle; a rimple.“It wanteth the due parching and ripening against the sunne: and by that meanes commeth short of the rivels and blacknesse that the outlandish pepper hath.”
A kind of small dumpling made from egg and wheat flour, often eaten in soup, especially among the Pennsylvania Dutch and other Germans.

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

Starter word rating: AverageIn the top 14% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels: I, E
Unique letters: 5 of 5
Common letters: R, I, E, L

Hard-mode trap: 6 valid words fit the pattern RIVE_. If you reach it, you may need several guesses to find the last letter.

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