GIANT
Yes, GIANT was the Wordle answer on February 12, 2023 (Wordle #603).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ənt//ˈd͡ʒaɪnt//ˈd͡ʒʌɪ.ənt/
- Noun
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A mythical human or humanoid of very great size.
- Noun
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Specifically:
- Adjective
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Very large.
Alternative forms: giaunt
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English geaunt, geant, from Old French geant, gaiant (Modern French géant) from Vulgar Latin *gagās, gagant-, from Latin gigās, gigant-, from Ancient Greek γίγας (gígas, “giant”). Cognate to giga- (“1,000,000,000”). Displaced native Old English ent, eoten, and þyrs. Compare Modern English ent (“giant tree-man”), ettin ("a giant"), and thurse ("a giant").
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it JYUHNT.
Related meanings
Synonyms monster WHALE hulk TITAN heavyweight JUMBO
Opposites little SMALL
In a sentence
She has giant man hands.
The sun is a giant ball of gas.
Use GIANT in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 93.9% 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: February 12, 2023 (#603).
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See what the public sample says →GIANT in Connections
8 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . Showing the 5 most recent. A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #918
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GIANT appeared in ENORMOUS (green group).
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· Puzzle #774
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GIANT appeared in COLOSSAL (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #609
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GIANT appeared in MASSIVE (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #551
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GIANT appeared in FANTASY CREATURES (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #460
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GIANT appeared in FEATURED IN “JACK AND THE BEANSTALK” (blue group).
How GIANT performs as a guess
GIANT 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 82.2% of games, misses completely in 17.8%, and leaves about 145 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #825 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe GIANT 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 GIANT 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 GIANT in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
GIANT can come back 122 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 GIANT; 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.
Try next
Strategy after playing GIANT
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to GIANT.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing GIANT:
Research on GIANT
Game-tree analysis and word research for GIANT, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with GIANT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,352 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 GIANT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.59, 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
- GIANT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 42 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: 81 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.2 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).