Is WAXES a Wordle Word?

Yes. WAXES 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 WAXES mean?

Beeswax.
Earwax.“What role does the wax in your earhole fulfill?”
Any oily, water-resistant substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.

4 more noun definitions

Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
The phonograph record format for music.
A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil

To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply.
To defeat utterly.

2 more verb definitions

To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
To grow.
(of the moon) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.

1 more verb definition

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

Starter word rating: WeakIn the top 46% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels: A, E
Unique letters: 5 of 5
Common letters: A, E
Rare letters: X

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

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