So starting words like “ratio,” “irate,” “stain,” or “stare” that include those commonly used letters are great options. There are more English-language words that start with S than any other letter, so a starting word that begins with S is also a good first guess.
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.
Start with a word that has a lot of vowels.
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.
Most common Wordle starting words
ADIEU — ADIEU was the most common response, with a total of 21 submissions.
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.
EUNOIA is the shortest word in English which has all five vowels.
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.
Every 5-letter word has at least one vowel, so include as many vowels as possible in your first guess to narrow down the word. The most common letters that appear in 5-letter words are E, A, R, O, T, L, I, S, & N. Some of the best Wordle starting words are Irate, Saute, Arose, Alert, Trace, and Cater.
Crwth and cwtch are Welsh words that English has adopted. Grrrl and grrls are slang words, and phpht is a commonly accepted onomatopoeic word.
Many statistically-minded people like to make the absolute most out of their starting two guesses by squeezing in all of the top 10 most common letters. That means you need two words that include all of E, T, A, O, I, N, S, R, H, and L.
The shortest word is a. Some might wonder about the word I since it consists of one letter, too. In sound, a is shorter because it is a monophthong (consists of one vowel), while I is a diphthong. Both do consist of one letter in the English writing system, and in most fonts I is the narrowest letter.
The words without vowels are why, hmm, hymn, xlnt, wynd, myths, thy, dry, cyst, etc.
Oceania, oogonia, and oxyopia, each seven letters long, are the shortest five syllable English words.
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.
The objective of Wordle is to guess the secret word in six tries, using a series of hints to figure it out - the objective of Lewdle is exactly the same, but instead of just normal words, all the words are rude.
Name: Lewdle.
You may intuitively know that the most common starting letter for a daily Wordle is "S". What you may not know is how common it is. Roughly 18% of the possible Wordle answers start with "S".