Is RAKES a Wordle Word?

Yes. RAKES 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 RAKES mean?

/ɹeɪks/

noun

  1. A walk, or a journey taken (especially on foot); the act of taking a walk or journey.
  2. The movement of animals while grazing.
  3. The pastureland over which animals graze; a range, a stray.
1 more noun definition
  1. A journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported.

verb

  1. To walk; to roam, to wander.
  2. Of animals (especially sheep): to graze.
  3. To roam or wander through (somewhere).

noun

  1. A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
  2. (by extension) A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.

noun

  1. The act of raking.
  2. Something that is raked.

verb

  1. To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.“She is raking the gravel path to keep it even.”

noun

  1. A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
  2. A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
  3. (originally Northern England) A series, a succession; specifically a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.“The train was formed of a locomotive and a rake of six coaches.”
1 more noun definition
  1. (systems theory) In cellular automata: a puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.

noun

  1. Rate of progress; pace, speed.

verb

  1. To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
  2. Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.

noun

  1. A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
  2. (specifically) In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
  3. The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
2 more noun definitions
  1. Senses relating to watercraft.
  2. (roofing) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.

verb

  1. To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.“A mast rakes aft.”
  2. Senses relating to watercraft.

noun

  1. A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.

verb

  1. To behave as a rake; to lead a hedonistic and immoral life.

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

RAKES in Wordle

Starter word rating
GoodIn the top 4% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels
A, E
Unique letters
5 of 5
Common letters
R, A, E

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