Is BATES a Wordle Word?
Yes. BATES is a valid Wordle word.
- Valid guess
- Not on the answer list
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 BATES mean?
/beɪts/
verb
- To reduce the force of something; to abate.
- To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
- (sometimes figurative) To cut off, remove, take away.
5 more verb definitions
- To leave out, except, bar.
- To waste away.
- To deprive of.
- To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
- To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
verb
- To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
- Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
verb
- To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.
verb
- To masturbate.“I could go out and take a walk in the park, but I'd rather stay home and bate all day.”
Definition from Wiktionary, available under the CC BY-SA license.
BATES in Wordle
- Starter word rating
- GoodIn the top 7% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
- Vowels
- A, E
- Unique letters
- 5 of 5
- Common letters
- A, T, E
Hard-mode trap: 13 valid words fit the pattern
_ATES. If you reach it, you may need several guesses to find the last letter.
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