Is ZONKS a Wordle Word?

Yes. ZONKS 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 ZONKS mean?

To hit hard .
To make (someone) sleepy or delirious, to put into a stupor .
(usually followed by “out”) To become exhausted, sleepy or delirious.“After two hours of studying, I zonked out.”

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

Starter word rating: WeakIn the top 88% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels: O
Unique letters: 5 of 5
Common letters: O
Rare letters: Z

Hard-mode trap: 11 valid words fit the pattern _ONKS. If you reach it, you may need several guesses to find the last letter.

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