Marc is TechRadar’s UK Editor in Chief, the latest in a long line of senior editorial roles he’s held in a career that started the week that Google launched (nice of them to mark the occasion). Well, so long as you don't start with OUIJA. Of course not everyone takes it as seriously as me, so ultimately you should do what you enjoy. Sure, this can shake things up and make the game fresh - but just imagine how devastated you'll be if you play CRANE one day, then switch to SLANT the next only for the answer to be… CRANE. S doesn't feature very often at the end of an answer, either, so you'll most likely have to move it if it does appear.įinally, I'd personally advise against choosing a different starting word for each day. Yes, it is a way to get an S into a word - but Wordle doesn't feature plurals among its answers, so you'll never score a 1/6 that way. You want to get as much information as possible from your first guess, so putting two of the same letter in your word won't be as useful as having five different letters. Including duplicate letters in a Wordle start word is generally a bad idea. Best Wordle starting words - things to avoid J is actually the least common letter in the game, featuring in just 27 answers - so that's pretty much just a waste of a letter. Yes, they all contain three or four vowels, but they all also have very uncommon letters such as Q or J in them. In fact, the MIT researchers call out AUDIO specifically, stating that it uncovers only 1.320 colored tiles in the first move, whereas SALET typically reveals 1.683 of them.Įither way, please don't start with OUIJA, EQUAL or QUEUE. However, mathematically there are better options. On the one hand this makes sense, as almost all Wordle answers contain at least one of A, E, I, O or U, and identifying them early can help point you in the right direction for what the solution might be.ĪUDIO, ADIEU and CANOE are all common favorites with the vowel-heavy approach in mind, and none are terrible choices. Best Wordle starting words - vowelsĪnother popular approach is to pack your Wordle start word with vowels. With all that in mind, maybe the best Wordle starting words are SLANT and CRANE: both score a 99 from WordleBot and neither has yet been an answer. Oh, and CARTE isn't an actual answer either. Likewise, CRATE, SLATE and TRACE have all been past Wordle answers, so you might want to avoid them for the same reason. That said, if you start with SALET each day you'll definitely never score a fabled 1/6, because it's not among Wordle's 2,309 answers. In fact, they say someone starting with SALET will solve Wordle in an average of 3.421 guesses. SALET performs 1% better than SLATE when it comes to narrowing down the options in Wordle, the researchers say, which gives you a better chance of solving it in your six guesses. Apparently it's a 15th-century helmet, but more importantly Wordle does accept it as a guess. If you're not sure what SALET means then you're in good company, because I didn't either. I'm no mathematical genius, though, so to get a real insight into the best words to start Wordle you could see what the real experts say.įor instance, researchers at MIT have published a paper (opens in new tab) that they say definitively confirms the best Word to start Wordle as… SALET. The same logic would apply to CARTE and TRACE, which are anagrams of CRATE.ĭoes it work? Well, yes - after all, my streak is currently at nearly 400! Best Wordle starting words - the MIT verdict While the C is slightly less common than a S at the start, an R is a far more common letter overall than L, so including it makes sense. Personally, though, I prefer a word that starts with C - with my current favorite being CRATE.ĬRATE keeps the ATE part from SLATE, but swaps in C and R. After all, S is the most common starting letter by far, and all of the other letters are very common throughout the game. You don't need to be good at math to see that it makes sense, either. By this method, SLATE has the highest overall score, of 1,432. The S gets 365, the L gets 200 and so on. Why? Well, you simply add up the number of times each letter appears in each position in an answer.
But once you discount made-up words you are indeed left with SLATE as your best choice. What does this tell us? Well, taking the top letter in each position doesn't help much, as that would give us the word SAAEE, which isn't a real word. Here are the top 5 letters for each of those categories: I also looked at the most common letters in position #2, #3, #4 and at the end of an answer. The most common starting letters, meanwhile, are S, C, B, T and P. E (appears in Wordle answers 1,230 times).Among my findings were that the most common letters in the game are (in order) E, A, R, O and T.
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