You’ve seen it, just not by itself. Metropolis, Annapolis, Indianapolis, etc. IMHO, someone who uses it as a word all by itself outside a scholarly publication is being seriously snooty.
Scoredle also had ‘pubis’ as a possibility, but it sounds like Wordlebot says that’s not on the list. Can’t say I’m surprised.
You are so right! And I never would have thought to use it as a standalone.
And yet yesterday they listed BUSTY as a possibility. I found it, but immediately rejected it as not Wordle-worthy.
Silly game!
I thought it was a borderline possibility, just not as good as MISTY which I went with instead as my 3rd guess.
And yet here we are, faithfully playing it every day. 
Wordle 1,054 3/6*
PLATE
PROUD
PIOUS
Wordle 1,054 5/6*
ALONE
SHORT
DOOMS
QUOPS
PIOUS
Wordle 1,054 3/6
SLATE
CHOIR
PIOUS
THU MAY 9th
Wordle 1,055 5/6*
ALONE
THEIR
MERCY
PERKY
JERKY
Wordle 1,055 5/6
RATIO
SURLY
MERCY
PERKY
JERKY
Wordle 1,055 4/6
STERN
CLOUD
GIMPY
JERKY
PIOUS → Three vowels already gone. Good second word, though!
LEARN → T is still out there. Thought about RETRY here but saw the duplicate R. (Hold that thought…) So I tried
RETCH → which was pretty useless. A second E? I’ll try
VERGE → which probably should have been MERGE, since that would have kept me from my fatal error…
MERRY → I double up the R and put it in 4th position! Dreadful! Just two possibles left and I tried
DERBY
instead of JERKY! Bad misplay. Scoredle found it in 4 - even better than when it got to start with SLATE. Probably my worst effort.
Wordle 1,055 6/6*
\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt J} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ \end{aligned}
Uh oh… my last three scores are 4,5,6 …
Wordle 1055 4/6
1,713
176
6
SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
JERKY → I’ve got no beef with this solution. 
Happy to get a 4.
Wordle 1,055 6/6
HEART
RESIN
LEERY
DERBY
PERKY
JERKY
A lot of us doin’ the perky jerky as we turn ourselves about
Wordle 1,055 4/6
RAISE
OUTER
MERCY
JERKY
Glad to see I’m not the only one.
Wordle 1,055 6/6
CRANE
POISE
QUERY
DERBY
GERMY
JERKY - I saw this early on, but it didn’t seem likely.
Wordle 1,055 6/6
TRAIL
NOSER
QUERY
MERCY
PERKY
JERKY
At least I’m not the only one who struggled with this one.
Didn’t get a chance to post yesterday. It was a mundane four - but if I hadn’t decided to switch up my starting word list on this go-round, PIOUS would have come up… today!
< sneaking in >
Lucky! And WordleBot made sure I knew it.
Wordle 1,055 3/6*
IRATE
SUPER
JERKY
Wordle 1,055 6/6*
LEAST
WEIGH
DECOY
BERRY
PERKY ← forgot to check the used word list
JERKY ← the only word left.
Wordle 1,055 5/6
PLANT
SCORE
FREED
RIVER
JERKY
Wordle beat me up pretty good today.
Wordle 1,055 5/6*
PLATE
DINER
CRESS
BERRY
JERKY
Phew! Grateful to get this one in 5.