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Not directly related to the article, but I was just wondering what the best word to start wordle with is - and I think it is ATONE. I arrived there by looking
by wolframhempel 5y ago
Not directly related to the article, but I was just wondering what the best word to start wordle with is - and I think it is ATONE.
I arrived there by looking at the most frequent letters in english from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency and putting them into an anagram solver at https://www.thewordfinder.com/anagram-solver/ https://www.thewordfinder.com/anagram-solver/
There is no five letter word from ETAOI (the five most frequent letters) but there are some from ETAOIN (the top six), namely atone, eatin, entia, oaten, tenia and tinea.
Wordle doesn't recognize most of these, but it does recognize atone
- shrx 5y agoYou can improve this guess by calculating the letter frequency for the 5-letter words only. With the dictionary that I use, the optimal word to start with is AROSE.
- CamelCaseName 5y agoRecently I watched two videos on how to solve Wordle using information theory by ThreeBlues1Brown https://youtu.be/v68zYyaEmEA https://youtu.be/v68zYyaEmEA https://youtu.be/fRed0Xmc2Wg https://youtu.be/fRed0Xmc2Wg
- dubbel 5y agoATONE is a good one based on letter frequency - I wonder if letter position might lead you to another word, for example one that ends with "ed", "er" or "es". Or has an "e" as the second to last character? Edit: I just read in a comment, plural or past tense words seem to be less common in the Wordle word set, so my example wouldn't make as much sense.
- unfocussed_mike 5y agoI use STARE or TASER. Then UNLID and CHOMP :-)
- RegBarclay 5y agoI try to use words that hit the Wheel of Fortune RSTLNE letters - BEAST, RUSTY, ROAST. It's served me pretty well. I haven't had to go beyond the 5th guess yet and commonly solve it in 4.