Is HOKES a Wordle Word?

Yes. HOKES 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 HOKES mean?

/həʊks/

noun

  1. Something contrived or artificial.

verb

  1. To ascribe a false or artificial quality to; to pretend falsely to have some quality or to be doing something, etc.

verb

  1. To scrounge, to grub.

noun

  1. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
  2. A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
  3. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
20 more noun definitions
  1. The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
  2. The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
  3. A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
  4. A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
  5. A snare; a trap.
  6. (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
  7. Removal or expulsion from a group or activity“He is not handling this job, so we're giving him the hook.”
  8. A field sown two years in succession.
  9. (authorship) A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
  10. (authorship) A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
  11. A finesse.
  12. A jack (the playing card).
  13. A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
  14. A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.“The song's hook snared me.”
  15. A ship's anchor.
  16. Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.“We've added hooks to allow undefined message types to be handled with custom code.”
  17. (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
  18. A diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
  19. A háček.
  20. Senses relating to sports.

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

HOKES in Wordle

Starter word rating
AverageIn the top 38% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels
O, E
Unique letters
5 of 5
Common letters
O, E

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