Few Wordle Players Use Consistent Starting Words, but When They Do, It’s ADIEU (Published 2022) (2024)

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Few Wordle Players Use Consistent Starting Words, but When They Do, It’s ADIEU (Published 2022)? ›

(“Consistent” was defined as using the same word 90 percent of the time.) The favorite starting word among players during that time was ADIEU, the French word for “farewell.” It was used by an average of 5 percent of users each day, which still included millions of people.

I'm going to teach the controversy here. The argument in favor of ADIEU is that it contains four vowels, and you know the solution will have to contain at least one vowels. Thus, knocking out four of them in your first guess is pretty smart. (O and sometimes-vowel Y are the only ones not included.)

Picking your favorite and best Wordle starting word, and using a combination of them, will help you win the daily Wordle game time and time again. Also, keep in mind that the game's list of words was deliberately designed to use common words.

Everyone gets the same word every day, and those words come from a curated list. Players can share their results, with the coveted goal of finding the correct word quickly. Using mathematical analysis of the Wordle data, we share some advice that can help you win more quickly!

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.

According to a study, 97.08% of people who play Wordle every day pass the level using a maximum of six attempts.

As I mentioned above, a burner word is a word you guess in Wordle (that you know is not the right answer) that you use to eliminate, or guess, several letters at a time.

The best Wordle starting words overall

WordleBot rates SLATE as 99/100 for skill, the highest score it awards. However, it gives the same ranking to CRANE, CRATE, SLANT, TRACE and CARTE, so any of those six would be a great choice of Wordle starting word.

What is the very first Wordle word? ›

When did Wordle start? Wordle started as a humble independent game played only among friends and family of developer Josh Wardle in June 2021 (the first answer was "Cigar").

But knowing what's gone before is important, because Wordle answers don't repeat – so you could easily be wasting guesses.

So far Wordle solutions haven't repeated. Does the bot take that into account? No, it does not. This is a disadvantage for the bot against players who keep track of which words have already appeared as Wordle solutions, but presumably solutions will repeat at some point.

There are some other telltale signs, too, such as unlikely words suddenly spiking in popularity on the days where they also happened to be the answer. “What serious Wordle player would choose NANNY as a first guess? You'd be testing only 2 vowels and 1 consonant!” Dilger observes.

In comparison, the least-common letter in the Wordle dictionary is the letter “J”. If the letter “J” is not present in a term, just 1.20% of all answers can no longer be the solution. Removing the two most-common letters together, “E” and “A”, takes out 69.20% of potential answers.

For human Wordle players, the most popular opening word by some margin is ADIEU. AUDIO, another four-vowel word, is the fourth-most popular. The strategy seems to make sense: Figure out the vowels, and the other letters will fall into place.

"Of the 30 most popular Wordle openers, ADIEU performed the worst," the analysis stated.

In comparison, the least-common letter in the Wordle dictionary is the letter “J”. If the letter “J” is not present in a term, just 1.20% of all answers can no longer be the solution. Removing the two most-common letters together, “E” and “A”, takes out 69.20% of potential answers.

Most people should, on average, get it in at least 4, even on days where it is harder. Especially if you aren't making risky moves, four guesses should supply you with enough information to make a correct guess.