The answer can still be plural like GEESE or FUNGI, but it will never be FOXES or SPOTS. Players can still guess words ending in "s" or "es" to narrow down the answer.
Never end a word with an "s." Spoiler alert: There are no plural words in the possible solutions list, Fan said.
The rules of Wordle are elegantly simple. Your objective is to guess a secret five-letter word in as few guesses as possible. To submit a guess, type any five-letter word and press enter. All of your guesses must be real words, according to a dictionary of five-letter words that Wordle allows as guesses.
When The New York Times purchased Wordle in 2022, six words were removed from this list: agora, pupal, lynch, fibre, slave, and wench.
Does Wordle not use proper nouns? No, but some words on the list are both common and proper nouns. For example, robin and bobby are on the list; they can be proper nouns (and indeed bobby is more often a proper noun than a common noun) but both are on the list in their contexts as common nouns.
A pair of MIT researchers recently set out to find the optimal starting word for the popular online puzzle, discovering that the statistically superior first guess is SALET, which is a 15th century helmet.
The best Wordle start word according to WordleBot
And by that measure, the best Wordle start word is apparently CRANE. That's surprising to me — not least because STARE actually fares better in terms of average number of solutions, scoring 71.8 to CRANE's 78.7.
The word that was the most difficult to guess in 2022 by a large margin was “parer,” according to the study. “Parer” is the name for a small, sharp knife used to cut fruits and vegetables, and it ended up causing 48% of players to not guess the word within six guesses, according to the study.
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.
You might have learned this already (and done so the hard way), but yes, absolutely letters can repeat in Wordle puzzles. This complication is actually one of the major sources of difficulty for many players.
Even if the word you're entering is real, this message means that the word isn't in Wordle's dictionary for use. You'll need to come up with a different guess.
Yes, a Wordle streak ends when you miss playing for a day, confirmed in this Reddit post. A 'streak' in Wordle is the number of consecutive times you have correctly guessed the word in a game of Wordle.
Or, start with a new word every time.
Mix it up and try something new each game. This is the strategy of the author John Green. “My Wordle strategy is to begin each puzzle with a word I have never previously used,” Mr. Green said in an email.
If you can consistently get Wordle in three guesses, you are pretty darn good. A score of three is solidly above average, and it is certainly nothing to frown at. Especially with harder words such as “cynic,” “vivid,” or “swill,” getting it in three is very good. Three takes skill, finesse, and intellect.
In both the second and third positions, vowels dominate. The following letters appear in more than 5% of Wordle words as the third letter: A, I, O, E, U, R, N, in order of frequency. The following letters appear in more than 5% of Wordle words as the fourth letter: E, N, S, A, L, I, R, C, T, O, in order of frequency.
Unfortunately, you're out of luck. The English language doesn't have any five-letter words that contain all vowels.
And the first result that popped up from Real Statistics Using Excel (which seemed credible) said: “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.
What is the best Wordle starting word? The New York Times' Wordlebot originally recommended Wordle users on regular mode start with the word CRANE. But, as of August 2022, Wordlebot now recommends the word SLATE. If you're on hard mode, the recommended word has gone from LEAST to DEALT.
The best word to start Wordle with is "STARE". A and E are the most commonly used vowels in English, while T and R are the most commonly used consonants. The most common first letter, on the other hand, is S.
Spencer Evans was the one whose accomplishment impressed me the most: 83 unbroken wins and counting. A wordsmith himself, Evans first discovered Wordle earlier this month.
The average published Wordle score is between 3.5 and 4.0, depending on the country.
One of the best ways to beat Wordle is to have a sheet of paper handy while you play. Draw 5 blank lines on the paper (one for each letter), and enter any letters you've already guessed correctly. Write down different words that have those letters to experiment on paper before inputting your guesses into Wordle.