Is SCABS a Wordle Word?

Yes. SCABS 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 SCABS mean?

noun

  1. An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
  2. The scabies.
  3. The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
6 more noun definitions
  1. Any of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by streptomyces bacteria (but formerly believed to be caused by a fungus).
  2. Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.
  3. Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
  4. (founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
  5. A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
  6. A worker who acts against trade union policies, especially a strikebreaker.

verb

  1. To become covered by a scab or scabs.
  2. To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.
  3. To remove part of a surface (from).
2 more verb definitions
  1. To act as a strikebreaker.
  2. To beg (for), to cadge or bum.“I scabbed some money off a friend.”

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

SCABS in Wordle

Starter word rating
WeakIn the top 81% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels
A
Unique letters
4 of 5Repeats S
Common letters
A

Hard-mode trap: 8 valid words fit the pattern SCA_S. If you reach it, you may need several guesses to find the last letter.

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