TANGO
TANGO is on the solver's possible-answer list and has no appearance in our globally completed Wordle history.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈtæ̞ŋɡəʊ̯/[ˈtʰæ̞ŋɡəʊ̯]/ˈtæ̝ŋɡoʊ̯/
- Noun
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A standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango.
- Noun
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A Spanish flamenco dance with different steps from the Argentine.
- Verb
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To dance the tango.
- Verb
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To mingle or interact (with each other).
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
Two main origins: * Borrowed from Italian Tango, probably a patronymic surname from a Germanic personal name. * Borrowed from Japanese 丹後 (Tango), the name of an old province of central Japan.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it TANGGOH.
Rhymes with MANGO
In a sentence
It takes two to tango.
Can you dance the tango?
Use TANGO in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 93.6% 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
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.
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See what the public sample says →TANGO in Connections
2 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #179
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TANGO appeared in IN THE NATO ALPHABET (blue group).
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· Puzzle #56
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TANGO appeared in DANCES (green group).
How TANGO performs as a guess
TANGO 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 83.0% of games, misses completely in 17.0%, and leaves about 152 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,086 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe TANGO 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 TANGO 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 TANGO in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
TANGO can come back 110 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 TANGO; 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 TANGO
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to TANGO.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing TANGO:
Research on TANGO
Game-tree analysis and word research for TANGO, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with TANGO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,729 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.77 guesses at best and is rank #719 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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
- TANGO sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 4 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 9, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 82 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.1 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).