Is WAILS a Wordle Word?

Yes. WAILS 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 WAILS mean?

noun

  1. A prolonged cry, usually high-pitched, especially as of grief or anguish.“She let out a loud, doleful wail.”
  2. Any similar sound as of lamentation; a howl.“A bird's wail in the night.”
  3. A sound made by emergency vehicle sirens, contrasted with "yelp" which is higher-pitched and faster.

verb

  1. To cry out, as in sorrow or anguish.
  2. To weep, lament persistently or bitterly.
  3. To make a noise like mourning or crying.“The wind wailed and the rain streamed down.”
2 more verb definitions
  1. To lament; to bewail; to grieve over.“to wail one's death”
  2. To perform with great liveliness and force.

verb

  1. To strike the skin in such a way as to produce a wale or welt.
  2. To give a surface a texture of wales or welts.

verb

  1. To choose, select.

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

WAILS in Wordle

Starter word rating
AverageIn the top 32% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels
A, I
Unique letters
5 of 5
Common letters
A, I, L

Hard-mode trap: 13 valid words fit the pattern _AILS. If you reach it, you may need several guesses to find the last letter.

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