Is SPANS a Wordle Word?

Yes. SPANS 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 SPANS mean?

The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; an eighth of a fathom.
(by extension) A small space or a brief portion of time.“He has a short attention span and gets bored within minutes.”
A portion of something by length; a subsequence.

6 more noun definitions

The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
The space of all linear combinations of something.
The time required to execute a parallel algorithm on an infinite number of processors, i.e. the shortest distance across a directed acyclic graph representing the computation steps.

To extend through the distance between or across.“The suspension bridge spanned the canyon.”
To extend through (a time period).“The novel spans three centuries.”
To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object.“to span a space or distance; to span a cylinder”

3 more verb definitions

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

Starter word rating: WeakIn the top 72% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels: A
Unique letters: 4 of 5Repeats S
Common letters: A

Hard-mode trap: 9 valid words fit the pattern SPA_S. If you reach it, you may need several guesses to find the last letter.

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