Is GAGES a Wordle Word?

Yes. GAGES 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 GAGES mean?

Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).
Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.

A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
An act of measuring.
An estimate.

12 more noun definitions

Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things
A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes.
The distance between the rails of a railway.
A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.“A vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee gauge when on the lee side of it.”
The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
(plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be had from one pound of lead; 12 gauge is roughly equivalent to .75 caliber.
(by extension) A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns).
A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.

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

Starter word rating: WeakIn the top 41% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels: A, E
Unique letters: 4 of 5Repeats G
Common letters: A, E

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