Is WINKS a Wordle Word?

Yes. WINKS 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 WINKS mean?

noun

  1. An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
  2. A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
  3. A brief time; an instant.
2 more noun definitions
  1. The smallest possible amount.
  2. A subtle allusion.“The film includes a wink to wartime rationing.”

verb

  1. To close one's eyes in sleep.
  2. To close one's eyes.
  3. Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.
3 more verb definitions
  1. To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.
  2. To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)“He winked at me. She winked her eye. He winked his assent.”
  3. To gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker.

noun

  1. A disc used in the game of tiddlywinks.

noun

  1. (Chiefly British) Periwinkle.

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

WINKS in Wordle

Starter word rating
WeakIn the top 83% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels
I
Unique letters
5 of 5
Common letters
I

Hard-mode trap: 14 valid words fit the pattern _INKS. If you reach it, you may need several guesses to find the last letter.

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