Improve error message for DataFrame.from_dict when wrong orient is provided

doc/source/whatsnew/v1.4.3.rst

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Bug fixes
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 - Bug in :meth:`pd.eval`, :meth:`DataFrame.eval` and :meth:`DataFrame.query` where passing empty ``local_dict`` or ``global_dict`` was treated as passing ``None`` (:issue:`47084`)
 - Most I/O methods do no longer suppress ``OSError`` and ``ValueError`` when closing file handles (:issue:`47136`)
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+- Fixed unintuitive error message in :meth:`DataFrame.from_dict` that didn't list 'tight' as an acceptable parameter
 
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pandas/core/frame.py

@@ -1720,7 +1720,7 @@ def from_dict(
  if columns is not None:
  raise ValueError(f"cannot use columns parameter with orient='{orient}'")
  else: # pragma: no cover
- raise ValueError("only recognize index or columns for orient")
+ raise ValueError("only recognize 'index', 'columns', or 'tight' for orient")
 
  if orient != "tight":
  return cls(data, index=index, columns=columns, dtype=dtype)