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TITLE

Yes, TITLE was the Wordle answer on October 4, 2024 (Wordle #1203).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪ̯.təl/[ˈtʰaɪ̯.tʰəl] ~ [ˈtʰaɪ̯.tʰl̩]/ˈtaɪ̯.ɾəl/

Noun

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

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

To assign a title to; to entitle.

Interjection

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.

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: October 4, 2024 (#1203).

See the full page for that puzzle: October 4, 2024 (#1203).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How TITLE performs as a guess

TITLE 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 83.0% of games, misses completely in 17.0%, and leaves about 149 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

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

T___E T in the 1st position and E in the 5th position T__L_ T in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _I__E I in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

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.

4.89 Entropy (bits)
149 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 77% of evaluated openers
1.05 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#8,288 Rank among openers
Opening with TITLE left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,288 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
831
4 guesses
1,167
5 guesses
268
6 guesses
22
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EILT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
39%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S H I L Y
T I T L E

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:

403 answers
236 answers
186 answers
158 answers
132 answers
123 answers
99 answers
74 answers
55 answers
53 answers
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38 answers
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28 answers
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16 answers
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Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1I1T1L1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

ARSON SONAR CAIRN SNORT RENAL SPAER

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:

17% chance
Suggested:
ARSON
10% chance
Suggested:
SONAR
8% chance
Suggested:
SONAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.0% →
ARSON 5.70 bits
9.9% →
SONAR 5.20 bits
7.8% →
SONAR 4.92 bits
6.7% →
SONAR 5.16 bits
5.6% →
CAIRN 5.21 bits
5.2% →
SNORT 5.27 bits
4.2% →
RENAL 4.57 bits
3.1% →
SPAER 4.58 bits
2.3% →
SNARY 3.82 bits
2.2% →
SONAR 3.85 bits

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.

How it sounds

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

Rhymes with VITAL

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TITLE is a kind of head or name.

Synonyms STYLE CLAIM championship deed

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).

In a sentence

It says in the title.
© tatoeba.org contributor Opiejay888 (CC BY 2.0 FR)
You can see that from the title.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).