Is YIPES a Wordle Word?

Yes. YIPES 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 YIPES mean?

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.

Starter word rating: AverageIn the top 27% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels: I, E
Unique letters: 5 of 5
Common letters: I, E

Hard-mode trap: 8 valid words fit the pattern _IPES. If you reach it, you may need several guesses to find the last letter.

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