TITLE
Yes, TITLE was the Wordle answer on October 4, 2024 (Wordle #1203).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪ̯.təl/[ˈtʰaɪ̯.tʰəl] ~ [ˈtʰaɪ̯.tʰl̩]/ˈtaɪ̯.ɾəl/
- Noun
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The name of a film, musical piece, painting, or other work of art.
“I know the singer's name, but not the title of the song.”
- Noun
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The name of a writing such as a book, which identifies it and usually describes its subject, with a short phrase that often summarizes its topic.
- Verb
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To assign a title to; to entitle.
- Interjection
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Used in the body of a post to indicate that the title has already said all that needs to be said.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it TYTUHL.
Rhymes with VITAL
Related meanings
Synonyms STYLE CLAIM championship deed
In a sentence
It says in the title.
You can see that from the title.
Use TITLE in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 93.7% 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: October 4, 2024 (#1203).
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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 #958
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TITLE appeared in CHAMPIONSHIP (green group).
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· Puzzle #952
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TITLE appeared in FOUND ON A BOOK JACKET (blue group).
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· Puzzle #744
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TITLE appeared in SEEN IN OPENING CREDITS (blue group).
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· Puzzle #612
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TITLE appeared in DOCUMENTS OF OWNERSHIP (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #515
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TITLE appeared in INFO ON A MUSEUM PLACARD (blue group).
How TITLE performs as a guess
TITLE 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 82.9% of games, misses completely in 17.1%, and leaves about 150 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,288 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe TITLE 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 TITLE 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 TITLE in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
TITLE can come back 100 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 TITLE; 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.
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Strategy after playing TITLE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to TITLE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing TITLE:
Research on TITLE
Game-tree analysis and word research for TITLE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with TITLE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,871 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 TITLE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.73; proven optimal play reaches 3.71. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.
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
- TITLE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 126 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 A2); among the first words English learners study.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.4 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; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).