TIGHT
TIGHT is on the solver's possible-answer list and has no appearance in our globally completed Wordle history.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /taɪt/
- Adjective
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Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
“a tight sponge; a tight knot”
- Adjective
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Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.
“The passageway was so tight we could barely get through.”
- Adverb
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Firmly, so as not to come loose easily.
“Hold on tight to the rope.”
- Adverb
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Soundly.
“Good night, sleep tight.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English tight, tyght, tyȝt, tiht, variants of thight, thiht, from Old English *þiht, *þīht (attested in meteþiht), from Proto-West Germanic *þį̄ht(ī), from Proto-Germanic *þinhtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *tenkt- (“dense, thick, tight”), from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, pull”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it TYT.
Rhymes with RIGHT MIGHT NIGHT WHITE LIGHT
Related meanings
Synonyms mean CLOSE fast wet closely loaded
Opposites LOOSE LEAKY open easy
In a sentence
It's going to be tight.
This is a tight election.
Use TIGHT in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 84.1% 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 →TIGHT in Connections
6 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . Showing the 5 most recent. A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #977
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TIGHT appeared in FIXED IN PLACE (green group).
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· Puzzle #948
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TIGHT appeared in FIXED (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #882
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TIGHT appeared in PACKED (green group).
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· Puzzle #562
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TIGHT appeared in BELOVED, AS A FRIEND (green group).
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· Puzzle #217
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TIGHT appeared in LEGWEAR, IN THE SINGULAR (purple group).
How TIGHT performs as a guess
TIGHT 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 64.1% of games, misses completely in 35.9%, and leaves about 380 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,251 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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.
First-turn measures
All four describe TIGHT 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 TIGHT 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 TIGHT in 5 guesses. See the trap-family guide for similar endgames.
Feedback distribution
TIGHT can come back 70 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 TIGHT; 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.
Try next
Strategy after playing TIGHT
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to TIGHT.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing TIGHT:
Research on TIGHT
Game-tree analysis and word research for TIGHT, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with TIGHT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.83 guesses and ranks #12,033 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 TIGHT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.79, at or below the proven-optimal 3.83, 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
- TIGHT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 37 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 5, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 63 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with touch (3.3 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).