PLUSH

Meaning

A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet.

• adjectiveVery extravagant.

PLUSH as a word-puzzle answer

PLUSH is a 5-letter word with 1 vowel (U) and 4 consonants (P, L, S, H). Every letter is distinct, so it rarely punishes a clean opening guess.

It leans on high-frequency letters (S), so a strong vowel-and-common-consonant opener tends to light up quickly. There are no rare letters here, so it is a fair, mid-difficulty answer for the daily Classic puzzle.