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TINGE

Yes, TINGE was the Wordle answer on November 13, 2025 (Wordle #1608).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.2% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /tɪnd͡ʒ/

Noun

A small added amount of colour; (by extension) a small added amount of some other thing.

Noun

The degree of vividness of a colour; hue, shade, tint.

Verb

To add a small amount of colour; to tint; (by extension) to add a small amount of some other thing.

Verb

To affect or alter slightly, particularly due to the actual or metaphorical influence of some element or thing.

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: November 13, 2025 (#1608).

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How TINGE performs as a guess

TINGE 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 83.3% of games, misses completely in 16.7%, and leaves about 138 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,256 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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First-turn measures

All four describe TINGE 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.

5.10 Entropy (bits)
138 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 88% of evaluated openers
0.85 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TINGE 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,256 Rank among openers
Opening with TINGE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #2,256 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
68
3 guesses
945
4 guesses
1,154
5 guesses
168
6 guesses
16
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EINT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
35%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TINGE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

TINGE can come back 115 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

396 answers
243 answers
156 answers
146 answers
123 answers
116 answers
90 answers
63 answers
49 answers
48 answers
44 answers
43 answers
41 answers
41 answers
41 answers
40 answers
34 answers
29 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1I1N1G2E1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing TINGE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TINGE:

17% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
10% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
7% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.7%
CAROL 6.01 bits
10.2%
SOLAR 5.25 bits
6.6%
SOLAR 4.84 bits
6.1%
SORAL 5.33 bits
5.2%
CLARY 4.93 bits
4.9%
SLART 5.04 bits
3.8%
SORAL 4.70 bits
2.7%
SORAL 4.23 bits
2.1%
ROAST 4.43 bits
2.0%
SADLY 4.12 bits

Research on TINGE

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

Optimal play

Opening with TINGE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,745 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 TINGE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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 TIHNJ.

Rhymes with BINGE HINGE SINGE MINGE WINGE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TINGE is a kind of amount or tone.

Synonyms COLOR TOUCH colour hint PINCH tint

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TINGE 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.3 of 5).

In a sentence

There is a tinge of red in the eastern sky.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (CC BY 2.0 FR)
An tinge of anxiety crosses my mind.
© tatoeba.org contributor urro (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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).