Is WIVES a Wordle Word?

Yes. WIVES 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 WIVES mean?

/waɪvz/

A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse.
The female of a pair of mated animals.“A new wife for the gander is introduced into the pen.”

An adult female human.
(collective) All females collectively; womankind.
A female person, usually an adult; a (generally adult) female sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.

3 more noun definitions

A wife (or sometimes a fiancée or girlfriend).
A female who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.)
A female attendant or servant.

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

Starter word rating: WeakIn the top 56% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels: I, E
Unique letters: 5 of 5
Common letters: I, E

Hard-mode trap: 10 valid words fit the pattern _IVES. If you reach it, you may need several guesses to find the last letter.

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