Is SLUGS a Wordle Word?

Yes. SLUGS 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 SLUGS mean?

noun

  1. Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
  2. A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.
  3. A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.
15 more noun definitions
  1. A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.
  2. A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
  3. A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
  4. A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use.
  5. (rarely used) the Imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.
  6. A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
  7. A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
  8. An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors but lacks a prime mover.
  9. (television editing) A black screen.
  10. A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug.
  11. A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
  12. (District of Columbia) A hitchhiking commuter.
  13. The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
  14. A hindrance, an obstruction.
  15. A ship that sails slowly.

verb

  1. To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
  2. To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
  3. (of a bullet) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
3 more verb definitions
  1. To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
  2. To load with a slug or slugs.“to slug a gun”
  3. To make sluggish.

noun

  1. A hard blow, usually with the fist.

verb

  1. To hit very hard, usually with the fist.“He insulted my mother, so I slugged him.”

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SLUGS in Wordle

Starter word rating
WeakIn the top 90% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels
U
Unique letters
4 of 5Repeats S
Common letters
L

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