TILDE
Yes, TILDE was the Wordle answer on November 27, 2021 (Wordle #161).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈtɪldə//ˈtɪldi/
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A diacritical mark ⟨˜⟩ placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation.
- Noun
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A symbol ⟨~⟩, with various names and uses, also known as swung dash or wave dash. In the computer industry, various other names may be used, such as squiggle and twiddle.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish tilde, from Latin titulus (“superscript”) or from tildar. Doublet of titer/titre, title, titlo, tittle, and titulus. Compare Portuguese til.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it TIHLDUH.
In a sentence
The tilde is used in math to denote equivalence.
Use TILDE in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 95.3% 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: November 27, 2021 (#161).
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1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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TILDE appeared in TYPOGRAPHICAL SYMBOLS (blue group).
How TILDE performs as a guess
TILDE 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 86.2% of games, misses completely in 13.8%, and leaves about 112 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #866 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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 TILDE 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 TILDE 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 TILDE in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
TILDE can come back 117 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 TILDE; 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 TILDE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to TILDE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing TILDE:
Research on TILDE
Game-tree analysis and word research for TILDE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with TILDE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.61 guesses and ranks #358 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 TILDE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.61, 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
- TILDE sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
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).