The two best words to start Wordle depend on your strategy, but top choices often use common vowels and consonants: "SLATE" or "CRANE" (high WordleBot scores) are excellent first words, followed by a second word like "ARISE," "OUIJA," or "AUDIO" to cover more vowels, or a completely different set like "CLINT" and "SOARE" to maximize letter coverage for a high chance of winning in three guesses.
Playing hard mode, the second or third words will almost always depend on the greens and yellows revealed using the start word. The current best start word for hard mode according to WordleBot is LEAST or SALET. If that fails to turn over anything, CRONY is a highly rated second go.
The best second Wordle word depends on your first guess, aiming to cover new common letters like R, S, T, L, N, and vowels (A, E, O, I, U) for maximum information; popular choices after vowel starters are words like THORN, COUNT, or SPIKE, while after consonant-heavy starts (like SLATE), IRONY or OPIUM are strong to find vowels, maximizing hits for a fast solve.
For a one seed strategy the best word is 'tales'. Using this word leads to success in over 95% of games with an average game length of 3.66 rounds. For a two seed word strategy; start with 'cones' and follow with 'trial'.
No perfect single word, but best practice: choose a 5-letter word with high-frequency, distinct letters combining vowels and common consonants. ADIEU, SOARE, CRANE, and SLATE are among the most effective first guesses.
There isn't one single set of "5 magic words" for Wordle, but popular suggestions aim to use common letters like RAISE, TONES, LURID, or DERBY, FLANK, GHOST, WINCH, JUMPS, to cover many letters, helping you find the solution quickly by eliminating rare letters (Q, X, V, Z) and maximizing letter discovery in the first few guesses, though you still need to solve the actual puzzle. Different sets exist, like one from a CBS 8 segment using FIGHT, CLOMP, BRAND, JUKES, WOOZY, all designed to maximize letter discovery.
A popular 3-word Wordle trick involves using words that cover common letters and vowels to quickly narrow down possibilities, with examples including RATIO, MENDS, LUCKY or LEARN, HOIST, DUCKY, aiming to eliminate most letters by the third guess, making the final solution much easier to find. The core idea is to maximize information from early guesses, often focusing on diverse letters like common consonants and multiple vowels.
ROATE is the mathematically optimal first guess in Wordle. RAISE is very slightly less good, but gives you a chance of a hole-in-one. Wordle is solved!
Here are all possible 5 word combinations that cover 25 letters of the alphabet:
Try four starting words where no letters are shared with the four words. You often end up identifying all 5 letters, and hit a few that are green. Guessing the word is now easy, and you have two guesses so you almost always win. My words are DARES, BOTCH, FLUMP, and ZINGY.
It did not. No Worlde answer has (yet) repeated - that's a list of every word so far and there are no repeats dating all the way back to June 19th, 2021. I double checked the date you posted your comment, April 19th, 2022 and the answer that day was FOYER.
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I like to start with a word that contains lots of vowels, like AUDIO or OUNCE. ADIEU is a good one too. From there, it's a little like doing a Sudoku, where there's a chain of logic. It helps to think about which consonants can go next to each other.
Burner words are words that you know are not the final word, but are used simply to find/eliminate as many of the remaining possible letters. (Note: Can't be used in Hard Mode). For example, say you have SHA_E (4 letters in the correct place) and you are on your 4th guess. Possible last letters are DKMPRV.
How to crack Wordle: 5-letter words to use first
6-Letter Words Starting with F
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The best second Wordle word depends on your first guess, aiming to cover new common letters like R, S, T, L, N, and vowels (A, E, O, I, U) for maximum information; popular choices after vowel starters are words like THORN, COUNT, or SPIKE, while after consonant-heavy starts (like SLATE), IRONY or OPIUM are strong to find vowels, maximizing hits for a fast solve.
The Best Starting Words for Wordle
Yup, STARE was the Wordle solution on 30 December 2024.
Wordle doesn't have a public "banned words list," but The New York Times, which owns the game, removes obscure, offensive, or potentially sensitive words (like slurs or certain COVID-related terms) from its solution list to keep it accessible and appropriate, while also removing words that are too hard to guess or have confusing secondary meanings. Some words removed include agora, lynch, slave, wench, and fetus, while many common curse words remain in the dictionary of possible guesses but aren't solution words.
Yes, DADDY is a valid five-letter word that has appeared as a past Wordle answer and is in the game's dictionary, fitting its criteria of being a common noun, though it uses repeated letters which can make it tricky to guess.
Luck is part of Wordle, so it's always possible to solve faster than the bot. But the bot's reliance on math instead of intuition means in the long run its paths to the answer are hard to top. There's a lot to be learned from the way the bot plays, similar to the way top chess players train by using chess programs.