Is TAPES a Wordle Word?

Yes. TAPES 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 TAPES mean?

Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.“Hand me some tape. I need to fix a tear in this paper.”
Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.“After the party there was tape all over the place.”
Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race.“Jones broke the tape in 47.77 seconds, a new world record.”

6 more noun definitions

Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape.“Did you get that on tape?”
(by extension) Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it.
An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus.“Old couples will sometimes play tapes at each other during a fight.”
(from ticker tape) The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.“Don’t fight the tape.”
The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick“His pass was right on the tape.”
A strong flexible band rotating on pulleys for directing the sheets in a printing machine.

To bind with adhesive tape.“Be sure to tape your parcel securely before posting it.”
To record, particularly onto magnetic tape.“You shouldn’t have said that. The microphone was on and we were taping.”
(passive) To understand, figure out.“I've finally got this thing taped.”

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

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

Hard-mode trap: 11 valid words fit the pattern TA_ES. If you reach it, you may need several guesses to find the last letter.

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