Is SKEWS a Wordle Word?

Yes. SKEWS 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 SKEWS mean?

/skjuːz/

noun

  1. Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
  2. An oblique or sideways movement.
  3. A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
2 more noun definitions
  1. A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
  2. A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.

verb

  1. To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
  2. To bias or distort in a particular direction.“A disproportionate number of female subjects in the study group skewed the results.”
  3. To hurl or throw.
3 more verb definitions
  1. To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
  2. To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
  3. To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.

noun

  1. A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
  2. The coping of a gable.
  3. One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.

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

SKEWS in Wordle

Starter word rating
WeakIn the top 89% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels
E
Unique letters
4 of 5Repeats S
Common letters
E

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