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”. The most frequently used letter in the fourth or fifth position is “e”. One strategy for our initial guess is to use a word that contains the most frequently used letters.
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.
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.
Three of the most common consonants of the English language are R, S and T. Every answer today is a word, name or phrase that contains each of the letters R, S and T exactly once, along with any number of vowels.
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.
Many users have complained about the lack of vowels in today's Wordle. The answer to Wordle 281 is “nymph”.
The rarest letters in English are j, q, x, and z.
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.
What is the most common letter? According to the data, the most common letter in the English language is the letter E.
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.
Sweden is the world's best country at Wordle, with an average of 3.72. The US is ranked #18 in the world for Wordle, with a national average of 3.92.
This European Country Has The Best Wordle Score In The World, Study Shows. According to the study by word site Word Tips, Sweden comes out on top being able to get the right answer in 3.72 guesses. (For anyone unfamiliar with how Wordle works, when it comes to scoring, the lower the better.)
The research found 'parer' took the top spot as the hardest, 'foyer' came in second, ending over 30,000 streaks and, perhaps surprisingly, 'catch' was third.
The three most common are NUMBER, PEOPLE, and BEFORE. These are good words to use to make get rid of hard-to-use letters, such as both Ps, a B and an F, and a U and a B.
"Derby, flank, ghost, winch, jumps." After typing in the magic words, Myles had one chance to solve the puzzle.
Crwth and cwtch are Welsh words that English has adopted. Grrrl and grrls are slang words, and phpht is a commonly accepted onomatopoeic word.
EUNOIA is the shortest word in English which has all five vowels.