Is COOKS a Wordle Word?

Yes. COOKS 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 COOKS mean?

/kʊks/

A person who prepares food.“I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners.”
The head cook of a manor house
The degree or quality of cookedness of food

3 more noun definitions

One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.“Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.”
A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.

To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.“I'm cooking bangers and mash.”
To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.“He's in the kitchen, cooking.”
To be cooked.“The dinner is cooking on the stove.”

7 more verb definitions

To be uncomfortably hot.“Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there.”
To execute by electric chair.
To hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
To concoct or prepare.
To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)“Crank up the Coltrane and start cooking!”
To play music vigorously.“On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!”

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

Starter word rating: WeakIn the top 92% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels: O
Unique letters: 4 of 5Repeats O
Common letters: O

Hard-mode trap: 14 valid words fit the pattern _OOKS. If you reach it, you may need several guesses to find the last letter.

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