Is SHIVS a Wordle Word?

Yes. SHIVS 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 SHIVS mean?

A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush).
A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp.

To stab someone with a shiv.
(by extension) To stab someone with anything not normally used as a stabbing weapon.

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

Starter word rating: WeakIn the top 96% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels: I
Unique letters: 4 of 5Repeats S
Common letters: I

Hard-mode trap: 7 valid words fit the pattern SHI_S. If you reach it, you may need several guesses to find the last letter.

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