Unfortunately, there are no words in English that are made up entirely of vowels, so we will have to settle for the next best thing: a five-letter word containing four of them.
Sorry Bill Gates, but AUDIO isn't the best word to start with when you're playing Wordle. 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.
Some Wordle players have found success in starting with a word that has several vowels in it. “Adieu,” “audio” or “canoe,” for instance, may be good words to start with because at least three out of the five letters are vowels.
5 Letter Words
We found 54 five-letter words without vowels (a,e,i,o,u).
Shh, psst, and hmm do not have vowels, either vowel symbols or vowel sounds.
Therefore, the correct answer is equal to 1440.
"Derby, flank, ghost, winch, jumps." After typing in the magic words, Myles had one chance to solve the puzzle.
So RATIO first, then MENDS, then LUCKY. That's it. With those three choices, you'll have slimmed down the list of possible letters to the point that figuring out the solution with your final guesses becomes significantly easier.
This means the top most commonly used letters in 5-letter words (in terms of total frequency as well as average frequency) were the letters A, E, S, O, R, I, L, T, etc.
Many users have complained about the lack of vowels in today's Wordle. The answer to Wordle 281 is “nymph”.
mamma : alternative spelling of "mama", or a mammary gland. nanna : a word for a grandmother. pappa : a word for a father. susus : plural of "susu", a money sharing group.
Glyph, Tryst, Myrrh, Sylph, Gwynn, Psych, Crypt, Lynch, Lymph.
The most common letters used in Wordle are E R A O T, according to an analysis of 221 games from Christopher Ingraham, a former Washington Post reporter. Context: Invented by Josh Wardle, a software engineer in Brooklyn, to amuse his friends and partner, Wordle has become a daily obsession for many ( ?).
Over 15% of Wordle's words of the day start with S. Only six other starting letters appear in more than 5% of Wordle words. In order of frequency, they are C, B, T, P, A, and F. These starting letters might seem pretty surprising, but they are close to the order of general five-letter words.
The odds get marginally better every subsequent game (e.g., 1 in 2,314; 1 in 2,313) assuming the correct answer isn't a repeat of the previous days' solutions. With that in mind, it's highly unlikely that 1% of all players are guessing correctly on the first try — and much more likely that some folks are cheating.
The worldwide average number of guesses is 3.919 based on 139,940 tweets (of course, only tweeted results were counted).