Is BAKES a Wordle Word?

Yes. BAKES 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 BAKES mean?

/beɪks/

The act of cooking food by baking.
Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.

2 more noun definitions

(Barbadian, sometimes US and UK) A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten in Barbados and sometimes elsewhere, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or in some places sometimes roasted).
Any item that is baked.

(with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven.“I baked a delicious cherry pie.”
(with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.“The cake baked at 350°F.”
To be warmed to drying and hardening.“The clay baked in the sun.”

7 more verb definitions

To dry by heat.“They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture.”
To be hot.“I'm baking after that workout in the gym.”
To cause to be hot.
To smoke marijuana.
To harden by cold.
To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
(with "in" or "into") To incorporate into something greater.

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

Starter word rating: AverageIn the top 29% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels: A, E
Unique letters: 5 of 5
Common letters: A, E

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