ANGER
Yes, ANGER was the Wordle answer on May 6, 2023 (Wordle #686).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈæŋɡə/[ˈæŋɡə] ~ [ˈaŋɡə]/ˈaŋɡə/
- Noun
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A strong and unpleasant feeling of displeasure, hostility, or antagonism, usually combined with an urge to yell, curse, damage or destroy things, or harm living beings, often stemming from perceived provocation, hurt, threat, insults, unfair or unjust treatment, or an undesired situation.
“vent one's anger”
- Verb
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To cause such a feeling of antagonism in.
“He who angers you conquers you.”
- Verb
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To become angry.
“You anger too easily.”
- Noun
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Pain or stinging.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English anger (“grief, pain, trouble, affliction, vexation, sorrow, wrath”), from Old Norse angr, ǫngr (“affliction, sorrow”) (compare Old Norse ang, ǫng (“troubled”)), from Proto-Germanic *angazaz (“grief, sorrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ- (“narrow, tied together”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it ANGGUR.
Related meanings
Synonyms ira WRATH ire
In a sentence
This one is me, in anger.
He said it out of anger.
Use ANGER in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 95.2% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: May 6, 2023 (#686).
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1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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ANGER appeared in BASIC EMOTIONS (yellow group).
How ANGER performs as a guess
ANGER is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 87.0% of games, misses completely in 13.0%, and leaves about 116 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,971 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe ANGER used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How ANGER performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches ANGER in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
ANGER can come back 120 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for ANGER; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing ANGER
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to ANGER.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing ANGER:
Research on ANGER
Game-tree analysis and word research for ANGER, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with ANGER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,409 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with ANGER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.64, because the two figures score different answer lists.
These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- ANGER sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 26 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Learner level
- Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 5, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 63 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with internal bodily sensation (4.1 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).