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VIGOR

Yes, VIGOR was the Wordle answer on October 8, 2022 (Wordle #476).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈvɪɡɚ/

Noun

Alternative form of vigour.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

How it sounds

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

Rhymes with RIGOR

Related meanings

Synonyms energy zip

In a sentence

You have lost your vigor.
© tatoeba.org contributor anzart (CC BY 2.0 FR)
The city came back to life with more vigor.
© tatoeba.org contributor Dejo (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use VIGOR in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 90.1% of possible answers.

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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 8, 2022 (#476).

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VIGOR in Connections

1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How VIGOR performs as a guess

VIGOR 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 75.7% of games, misses completely in 24.3%, and leaves about 236 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,949 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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.

V___R V in the 1st position and R in the 5th position V__O_ V in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _I__R I in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position VI_OR V in the 1st position, I in the 2nd position, O in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe VIGOR 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.

4.36 Entropy (bits)
236 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How VIGOR 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#6,949 Rank among openers
Opening with VIGOR left 1 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 3.70 average. It ranks #6,949 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
822
4 guesses
1,225
5 guesses
236
6 guesses
6

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
IOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
23%
All gray
24%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G R I N D
V I G O R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches VIGOR in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

VIGOR can come back 97 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

579 answers
269 answers
233 answers
212 answers
115 answers
93 answers
93 answers
81 answers
61 answers
57 answers
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32 answers
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10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4I1G2O1R1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

SLATE LEAST CLOTE CONTE TRICE THALE

Strategy after playing VIGOR

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VIGOR:

24% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
11% chance
Suggested:
LEAST
10% chance
Suggested:
CLOTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.3% →
SLATE 6.41 bits
11.3% →
LEAST 5.55 bits
9.8% →
CLOTE 5.14 bits
8.9% →
SLATE 5.53 bits
4.8% →
CONTE 4.49 bits
3.9% →
TRICE 4.60 bits
3.9% →
THALE 4.13 bits
3.4% →
SAULT 4.24 bits
2.6% →
SALUE 4.99 bits
2.4% →
SLANT 4.54 bits

Research on VIGOR

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

Optimal play

Opening with VIGOR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,161 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 VIGOR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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
VIGOR sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with internal bodily sensation (4.0 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).