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IMAGE

Yes, IMAGE was the Wordle answer on February 29, 2024 (Wordle #985).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɪm.ɪdʒ//ˈɪm.ədʒ//ˈɘm.ɘdʒ/

Noun

A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.

“The Bible forbids the worship of graven images.”

Noun

A mental picture of something not real or not present.

Verb

To represent by an image or symbol; to portray.

Verb

To reflect, mirror.

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: February 29, 2024 (#985).

See the full page for that puzzle: February 29, 2024 (#985).

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

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How IMAGE performs as a guess

IMAGE 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 87.2% of games, misses completely in 12.8%, and leaves about 141 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,126 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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.

I___E I in the 1st position and E in the 5th position _M__E M in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe IMAGE 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.

4.83 Entropy (bits)
141 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 74% of evaluated openers
1.11 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How IMAGE 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#6,126 Rank among openers
Opening with IMAGE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,126 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
827
4 guesses
1,243
5 guesses
201
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
3 vowels
Common:
AEI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
31%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U M P
A M A Z E
I M A G E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches IMAGE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

IMAGE can come back 96 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

305 answers
272 answers
214 answers
203 answers
119 answers
119 answers
115 answers
85 answers
73 answers
69 answers
63 answers
61 answers
47 answers
44 answers
37 answers
36 answers
34 answers
32 answers
29 answers
27 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

I1M3A1G2E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

SNORT SETER TALON SPILT CORSE ALTER

Strategy after playing IMAGE

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to IMAGE.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing IMAGE:

13% chance
Suggested:
SNORT
11% chance
Suggested:
SETER
9% chance
Suggested:
TALON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.8% →
SNORT 5.72 bits
11.5% →
SETER 5.48 bits
9.0% →
TALON 5.06 bits
8.6% →
SPILT 5.01 bits
5.0% →
CORSE 4.76 bits
5.0% →
ALTER 4.64 bits
4.8% →
CHART 4.65 bits
3.6% →
DINER 4.71 bits
3.1% →
NADIR 4.41 bits
2.9% →
TRINE 3.80 bits

Research on IMAGE

Game-tree analysis and word research for IMAGE, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with IMAGE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,404 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 IMAGE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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 IHMUHJ.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, IMAGE is a kind of representation or appearance.

Synonyms see project picture RANGE figure double

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
IMAGE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 87 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 7, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 53 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.9 of 5).

In a sentence

What image do you have of me?
© tatoeba.org contributor Nuel (CC BY 2.0 FR)
What can I do for my image?
© tatoeba.org contributor rokito (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).