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ANGER

Yes, ANGER was the Wordle answer on May 6, 2023 (Wordle #686).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈæŋɡə/[ˈæŋɡə] ~ [ˈaŋɡə]/ˈaŋɡə/

Noun

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

To cause such a feeling of antagonism in.

“He who angers you conquers you.”

Verb

To become angry.

“You anger too easily.”

Noun

Pain or stinging.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Wordle status

A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Possible answer

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: May 6, 2023 (#686).

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The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How ANGER performs as a guess

ANGER is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 87.1% of games, misses completely in 12.9%, and leaves about 115 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

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

A___R A in the 1st position and R in the 5th position A__E_ A in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _N__R N in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in ANGER.

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.

5.19 Entropy (bits)
115 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 92% of evaluated openers
0.75 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

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.

3.64 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#2,971 Rank among openers
Opening with ANGER solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #2,971 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
80
3 guesses
925
4 guesses
1,129
5 guesses
205
6 guesses
14
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AENR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
26%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G L E A M
E A G E R
A N G E R

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:

307 answers
197 answers
180 answers
144 answers
132 answers
110 answers
108 answers
93 answers
89 answers
73 answers
64 answers
56 answers
53 answers
44 answers
31 answers
31 answers
31 answers
31 answers
28 answers
28 answers
23 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

Base letter-value totals for ANGER; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.

Scrabble

A1N1G2E1R1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.

Try next

SOILY SLATY STILE COURT SLATE CHART

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:

13% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
8% chance
Suggested:
SLATY
8% chance
Suggested:
STILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

Ranked follow-up guesses for the 10 most common feedback patterns.

12.9% →
SOILY 5.64 bits
8.3% →
SLATY 5.16 bits
7.6% →
STILE 5.47 bits
6.1% →
COURT 5.24 bits
5.6% →
SLATE 5.23 bits
4.6% →
CHART 4.40 bits
4.5% →
TOISE 4.49 bits
3.9% →
COUNT 4.85 bits
3.7% →
SOILY 3.65 bits
3.1% →
SAINT 4.41 bits

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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it ANGGUR.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, ANGER is a kind of emotion or arousal.

Synonyms ira WRATH ire

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).

In a sentence

This one is me, in anger.
© tatoeba.org contributor AmarMecheri (CC BY 2.0 FR)
He said it out of anger.
© tatoeba.org contributor shekitten (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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).