Is NAMES a Wordle Word?

Yes. NAMES 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 NAMES mean?

/neɪmz/

Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.“I've never liked the name my parents gave me so I changed it at the age of twenty.”
Reputation.
An abusive or insulting epithet.“Stop calling me names!”

5 more noun definitions

(ditransitive) To give a name to.“One visitor named Hou Yugang said he was not too concerned about climate change and Baishui’s melting.”
To mention, specify.“He named his demands.”
To identify as relevant or important“naming the problem”

3 more verb definitions

To publicly implicate.“The painter was named as an accomplice.”
To designate for a role.“My neighbor was named to the steering committee.”
(Westminster system politics) To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct.

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

Starter word rating: GoodIn the top 10% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels: A, E
Unique letters: 5 of 5
Common letters: A, E

Hard-mode trap: 13 valid words fit the pattern _AMES. If you reach it, you may need several guesses to find the last letter.

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