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What is the best 5 letter word for Wordle? ›

Sometimes it seems pretty easy and others not so much. Here are the 5 "Magic" Words that will help you solve Wordle more often than not. "Derby, flank, ghost, winch, jumps."

We see from Figure 1 that “e” is the letter that is most frequently used (1,233 times in total), followed by “a”, “r”, “o”, “t”, “l”, “i”, “s”, “n”, “c”. The most frequently used letter in the first position is “s”, while the most frequently used letter in the second or third position is “a”.

There are 2309 possible answers.

The best Wordle starting words overall

Officially, the best Wordle starting word is SLATE. I say 'officially', because SLATE is the choice of WordleBot, an AI tool designed by the New York Times to help you improve your Wordle game. WordleBot rates SLATE as 99/100 for skill, the highest score it awards.

For that I need to fill up the 5x5 matrix with 5 unique words that cover 25 unique alphabet of the English language. Contrary to Shian Liao's belief, there actually exist such words. They are: The 5 magic words for Wordle word coverage: brick, glent, jumpy, vozhd, waqfs.

Memorizing all of the past Wordle answers is nearly impossible – after all, there have now been more than 1,100 of them. But knowing what's gone before is important, because Wordle answers don't repeat – so you could easily be wasting guesses.

The least common letters in all words are the usual suspects: J, Q, Z, X, and it's unlikely any five-letter Wordle word would contain any of those characters. F, V, and K are also uncommon, but these letters have higher odds of being in one of the five possible Wordle positions.

Do Wordles ever have plural nouns? No. There are no plural nouns in the answer list.

3. More people solve Wordle on their first guess than can be explained by chance. In the list above, we excluded first guesses that were that day's Wordle solution. That's because, about one game in every 250, a reader gets the answer right on the first try.

How rare is Wordle in 1? ›

Since there are 2,315 possible target words in Wordle, the probability that you will guess the target in exactly one try is 1/2315 = 0.000432. In fact, it doesn't matter which of the 2,315 words in the dictionary you choose to use as your initial guess since the probability of success is always 1/2315.

On average, most people (almost a third) find the correct answer on their 4th guess, and 78% of people get it within 3 to 5 guesses, making that the sweet spot for solving. We've seen the average number of guesses change over time too – albeit not by much (a gradient of -0.000242).

The 5-letter words with the most vowels are words like queue, audio, eerie, aioli, adieu, ouija, aurei, and uraei. Each of these words contains four vowels and one consonant, which is the maximum possible number of vowels in a 5-letter English word.