Is WIDES a Wordle Word?

Yes. WIDES 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 WIDES mean?

A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score

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

Starter word rating: WeakIn the top 41% of all valid Wordle words for testing common letters.
Vowels: I, E
Unique letters: 5 of 5
Common letters: I, E

Hard-mode trap: 10 valid words fit the pattern _IDES. If you reach it, you may need several guesses to find the last letter.

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