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TIGER

Yes, TIGER was the Wordle answer on January 5, 2022 (Wordle #200).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪɡə//ˈtaɪɡɚ/[ˈtʌɪɡɚ]

Noun

Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.

Noun

Other animals that resemble true tigers in appearance, pattern, colouration, etc.

Alternative forms: tigre, tyger, tygre

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From Middle English tygre, in part from Old English tigras (pl.), in part from Anglo-Norman tigre, both from Latin tigris, from Ancient Greek τίγρις (tígris), from Iranian (compare Avestan 𐬙𐬌𐬔𐬭𐬌 (tigri, “arrow”), 𐬙𐬌𐬖𐬭𐬀 (tiγra, “pointed”)). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”). Compare English stick.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it TYGUR.

In a sentence

That is not a tiger.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
This is not a tiger.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use TIGER in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 95.1% of possible answers.

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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: January 5, 2022 (#200).

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TIGER 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.

How TIGER performs as a guess

TIGER 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 85.9% of games, misses completely in 14.1%, and leaves about 117 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,706 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___R T in the 1st position and R in the 5th position T__E_ T in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__R I in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position TI_ER T in the 1st position, I in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TIGER 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.

5.25 Entropy (bits)
117 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TIGER 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#1,706 Rank among openers
Opening with TIGER left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It ranks #1,706 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
77
3 guesses
956
4 guesses
1,126
5 guesses
182
6 guesses
11

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
30%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
E N T E R
A G U E Y
T I G E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TIGER in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

TIGER can come back 119 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

336 answers
214 answers
165 answers
127 answers
121 answers
115 answers
97 answers
76 answers
72 answers
55 answers
53 answers
52 answers
48 answers
48 answers
47 answers
36 answers
30 answers
29 answers
28 answers
26 answers
26 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
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21 answers
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19 answers
19 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1I1G2E1R1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

SALON SLANE HOARD SHOUT CEASE SLAIN

Strategy after playing TIGER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TIGER:

14% chance
Suggested:
SALON
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
7% chance
Suggested:
HOARD

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.1% →
SALON 5.76 bits
9.0% →
SLANE 5.54 bits
6.9% →
HOARD 5.04 bits
5.3% →
SHOUT 5.15 bits
5.1% →
CEASE 4.77 bits
4.8% →
SLAIN 5.23 bits
4.1% →
SLATE 5.07 bits
3.2% →
SOAPY 3.59 bits
3.0% →
ALONE 4.05 bits
2.3% →
SLANE 4.47 bits

Research on TIGER

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

Optimal play

Opening with TIGER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #1,045 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 TIGER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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
TIGER sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 20 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 A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 95 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.5 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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).