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Woods is not just a plural of "wood", it is its own words. Synonym of forest, "they played in the woods", "the town is cutting down their local woods".

Assuming this is referring to 6/2's puzzle (which there are spoilers for below)

I do sort of agree, but "means" has its own meaning beyond the plural of "mean". It's common to say "a means to an end" - it's clearly a singular word of its own. There are other words on the answer list like this too, where you figure it's plural and can't be the answer until you think, "well, maybe that word has enough of a meaning in its own to not just be a plural?"

I could go either way with this, honestly. It's a bit confusing but I don't think it's in any way wrong to leave them in.

It's probably just on the much less curated list of words that are accepted as guesses but not solutions. I highly doubt it's in the solutions list.

Given that Asian is always capitalized, it understandably never made it on either list. Proper nouns/adjectives are easy to remove.

Looks like it's spelled "laud". "Laude" is only used in the Latin phrases like "magna cum laude", so not really an English word.

Did you press enter?

The game isn't "guess these five letters", but genuinely is "guess this word". Until you actually guess the correct word, you haven't made a correct guess.

It'd be like if I gave you two chances to answer a question where the answer was "egg white" and you said "egg yolk" and "off white". You never answered correctly.