Is YIKES a Wordle Word?
Yes. YIKES is a valid Wordle word.
- Valid guess
- Not on the answer list
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 YIKES mean?
/jaɪks/
interjection
- Expression of shock and alarm.“Then she told me I was ‘beautiful, for a black girl’. —Yikes!”
- Expression of empathy with unpleasant or undesirable circumstances.“John has lost his job and can't pay his mortgage; yikes!”
Definition from Wiktionary, available under the CC BY-SA license.
YIKES in Wordle
- Starter word rating
- AverageIn the top 37% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
- Vowels
- I, E
- Unique letters
- 5 of 5
- Common letters
- I, E
Hard-mode trap: 11 valid words fit the pattern
_IKES. If you reach it, you may need several guesses to find the last letter.
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