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THIGH

Yes, THIGH was the Wordle answer on July 3, 2024 (Wordle #1110).

As an opener, it rules out about 83.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /θaɪ/

Noun

The upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee.

Noun

That part of the leg of vertebrates (or sometimes other animals) which corresponds to the human thigh in position or function; the tibia of a horse, the tarsus of a bird; the third leg-section of an insect.

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: July 3, 2024 (#1110).

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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 THIGH performs as a guess

THIGH 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 64.2% of games, misses completely in 35.8%, and leaves about 387 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,573 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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.

T___H T in the 1st position and H in the 5th position T__G_ T in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _H__H H in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe THIGH 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.

3.71 Entropy (bits)
387 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
83.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 12% of evaluated openers
2.23 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How THIGH 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#12,573 Rank among openers
Opening with THIGH left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.83 average. It ranks #12,573 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
699
4 guesses
1,269
5 guesses
328
6 guesses
20
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
29%
All gray
36%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S H U N T
T H I C K
T H I G H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches THIGH in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

THIGH can come back 66 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

851 answers
287 answers
217 answers
130 answers
123 answers
76 answers
73 answers
70 answers
58 answers
57 answers
43 answers
42 answers
34 answers
33 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1H4I1G2H4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

SOARE SALET LINER SLANE GLARE PORAE

Strategy after playing THIGH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing THIGH:

36% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
12% chance
Suggested:
SALET
9% chance
Suggested:
LINER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.8% →
SOARE 6.04 bits
12.1% →
SALET 5.72 bits
9.1% →
LINER 5.17 bits
5.5% →
SLANE 5.00 bits
5.2% →
GLARE 5.47 bits
3.2% →
PORAE 4.89 bits
3.1% →
SCRAE 5.01 bits
2.9% →
SIENT 4.18 bits
2.4% →
PLACE 4.52 bits
2.4% →
RANSE 4.88 bits

Research on THIGH

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

Optimal play

Opening with THIGH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #12,997 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 THIGH can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.83, at or below the proven-optimal 3.86, 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

One syllable Say it THY.

Rhymes with APPLY REPLY IMPLY DECRY RETRY

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, THIGH is a kind of limb or helping.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
THIGH sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 5 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 93 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.

In a sentence

He put his hand on my thigh.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Tom fell and broke his thigh.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (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).