IMAGE
Yes, IMAGE was the Wordle answer on February 29, 2024 (Wordle #985).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈɪm.ɪdʒ//ˈɪm.ədʒ//ˈɘm.ɘdʒ/
- Noun
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A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.
“The Bible forbids the worship of graven images.”
- Noun
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A mental picture of something not real or not present.
- Verb
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To represent by an image or symbol; to portray.
- Verb
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To reflect, mirror.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English ymage, borrowed from Old French image, from Latin imāgō (“a copy, likeness, image”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym-; the same PIE root is the source of imitari (“to copy, imitate”); see imitate. Doublet of imago.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it IHMUHJ.
Related meanings
Synonyms see project picture RANGE figure double
In a sentence
What image do you have of me?
What can I do for my image?
Use IMAGE in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 94.0% 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 29, 2024 (#985).
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4 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #1015
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IMAGE appeared in PICTURE TAKEN FROM A FILM (green group).
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· Puzzle #730
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IMAGE appeared in THINGS YOU CAN INSERT IN A DOCUMENT (green group).
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· Puzzle #689
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IMAGE appeared in REPUTATION (blue group).
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· Puzzle #515
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IMAGE appeared in PUBLIC STANDING (green group).
How IMAGE performs as a guess
IMAGE 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 87.1% of games, misses completely in 12.9%, and leaves about 142 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
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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.
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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
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:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for IMAGE; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
Try next
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:
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.
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).
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).