Just booking myself a very special place in hell 🙂
Because I’m in isolation at the moment, I set to thinking what would be the best first word to use every time in Wordle.
Getting a good Wordle score is dependent on guessing the first word, then deriving the answer from there. It makes sense therefore that your first word should be a word with the highest probability of having the correct characters in it right from the start.
By looking through the frequency if alphabet characters in all of the 5 letter words in the English language, this can be easily achieved. I wrote a little program in PHP but you could do it in any language.
A little caveat, I got this list of 5 letter words from just googling it, most words are correct but there’s probably a few that are duffers.
<?php
$wordsArray = array(
"Aargh","Aback","Abaft","Aboon","About","Above","Abuse","Accel",
"Acute","Adieu","Adios","Admit","Adopt","Adown","Adult","Afoot",
"Afore","Afoul","After","Again","Agape","Agent","Agogo","Agone",
"Agree","Ahead","Ahull","Alack","Alcon","Alife","Alike","Aline",
"Alive","Allow","Aloft","Aloha","Alone","Along","Aloof","Aloud",
"Alter","Amiss","Among","Amply","Amuck","Anger","Angry","Apace",
"Apart","Apple","Apply","Aptly","Arear","Argue","Arise","Aside",
"Askew","Aught","Avast","Avoid","Award","Aware","Awful","Badly",
"Bakaw","Bally","Basic","Basis","Basta","Beach","Begad","Begin",
"Below","Birth","Black","Blame","Bless","Blige","Blind","Block",
"Blood","Board","Bothe","Brain","Brava","Brave","Bravo","Bread",
"Break","Brief","Bring","Broad","Brown","Build","Burst","Buyer",
"Canny","Carry","Catch","Cause","Chain","Chair","Cheap","Check",
"Chest","Chief","Child","China","Chook","Circa","Civil","Claim",
"Class","Clean","Clear","Climb","Clock","Close","Coach","Coast",
"Count","Court","Cover","Coyly","Crazy","Cream","Crime","Cross",
"Crowd","Crown","Cycle","Daily","Damme","Dance","Death","Depth",
"Dildo","Dimly","Dirty","Ditto","Doubt","Draft","Drama","Dream",
"Dress","Drily","Drink","Drive","Dryly","Dully","Early","Earth",
"Empty","Enemy","Enjoy","Enter","Entry","Equal","Error","Event",
"Exact","Exist","Extra","Faint","Faith","False","Fatly","Fault",
"Feyly","Field","Fifth","Fight","Final","First","Fitly","Floor",
"Focus","Force","Forte","Forth","Frame","Frank","Fresh","Frick",
"Front","Fruit","Fudge","Fully","Funny","Furth","Gaily","Gayly",
"Giant","Glass","Godly","Golly","Grand","Grant","Grass","Gratz",
"Great","Green","Gross","Group","Guess","Guide","Hallo","Haply",
"Happy","Harsh","Hasta","Havoc","Heart","Heavy","Hella","Hello",
"Hence","Henry","Horse","Hotel","Hotly","House","Howay","Howdy",
"Hullo","Human","Huzza","Icily","Ideal","Image","Imply","Index",
"Infra","Inner","Input","Issue","Japan","Jesus","Jildi",
"Joint","Jolly","Jones","Judge","Kapow","Knife","Large","Laugh",
"Laura","Laxly","Layer","Learn","Leave","Legal","Lento",
"Level","Lewis","Light","Limit","Local","Loose","Lordy","Lowly",
"Lucky","Lunch","Madly","Magic","Major","March","Marry","Match",
"Maybe","Mercy","Metal","Minor","Minus","Model","Money","Month",
"Moral","Motor","Mouth","Music","Naked","Nasty","Naval","Neath",
"Never","Newly","Night","Nobly","Noise","North","Novel","Nurse",
"Occur","Oddly","Offer","Often","Order","Other","Ought","Outer",
"Owner","Panel","Paper","Party","Peace","Peter","Phase","Phone",
"Piano","Piece","Pilot","Pitch","Place","Plain","Plane","Plant",
"Plate","Plonk","Plumb","Point","Pound","Power","Press","Price",
"Pride","Prime","Prior","Prize","Proof","Proud","Prove","Psych",
"Queen","Queer","Quick","Quiet","Quite","Radio","Raise","Ramen",
"Range","Rapid","Ratio","Reach","Ready","Redly","Refer","Relax",
"Reply","Right","River","Roman","Rough","Round","Route","Royal",
"Rugby","Rural","Sadly","Salve","Scale","Scene","Scope","Score",
"Secus","Selly","Sense","Serve","Shall","Shape","Share","Sharp",
"Sheep","Sheer","Sheet","Shift","Shily","Shirt","Shock","Shoot",
"Short","Shyly","Sight","Silly","Simon","Since","Sixth","Skill",
"Skoal","Slash","Sleek","Sleep","Slyly","Small","Smart","Smile",
"Smith","Smoke","Sniff","Solid","Solve","Sooey","Sorry","Sound",
"South","Space","Spang","Spare","Speak","Speed","Spend","Spite",
"Split","Sport","Squad","Srsly","Staff","Stage","Stand","Stark",
"Start","State","Steam","Steel","Steep","Stick","Still","Stock",
"Stone","Store","Stour","Study","Stuff","Style","Sugar","Super",
"Sweet","Table","Tally","Tanto","Taste","Teach","Terry","Thame",
"Thank","Theme","There","Thiam","Thick","Thine","Thing","Think",
"Third","Throw","Thwap","Tight","Title","Today","Tomoz","Total",
"Touch","Tough","Tower","Track","Trade","Train","Treat","Trend",
"Trial","Truly","Trust","Truth","Twice","Twirp","Uncle","Under",
"Union","Unity","Until","Upper","Upset","Urban","Usual","Utter",
"Vague","Valid","Value","Verry","Video","Viola","Visit","Vital",
"Vivat","Voice","Wacko","Wahey","Wanly","Waste","Watch","Water",
"Wetly","Where","Which","While","Whist","White","Whole","Whose",
"Whoso","Wilma","Wirra","Woman","Woops","World","Worry","Would",
"Wowie","Write","Wrong","Wryly","Yecch","Yeeha","Yeesh","Young",
"Yours","Youth","Yowch","Zowie");
$alphabet = array(
"a"=>0,"b"=>0,"c"=>0,"d"=>0,"e"=>0,"f"=>0,"g"=>0,"h"=>0,
"i"=>0,"j"=>0,"k"=>0,"l"=>0,"m"=>0,"n"=>0,"o"=>0,"p"=>0,
"q"=>0,"r"=>0,"s"=>0,"t"=>0,"u"=>0,"v"=>0,"w"=>0,"x"=>0,
"y"=>0,"z"=>0);
//echo count($wordsArray);
for ($i=0; $i<count($wordsArray); $i++)
{
// split word into individual characters and put those
// characters into an array
$splitWordToCharactersArray = str_split($wordsArray[$i]);
// examine each of these characters and increase characters
// in the alphabet array
for ($a=0; $a<count($splitWordToCharactersArray); $a++)
{
echo $splitWordToCharactersArray[$a]."<BR>";
// increase the count of the character detected in the alphabet array
// strtolower is needed to lower case first character of word so that
// $alphabet array will increase it's count for that first character
$alphabet[strtolower($splitWordToCharactersArray[$a])]++;
}
echo "----"."<BR>";
}
arsort($alphabet);
foreach ($alphabet as $key => $val) {
echo "$key = $val<BR>";
}
?>
The output for the last ‘foreach’ from a frequency sort of the letters is.
What is means is that the FIRST WORD that you should ALWAYS use in Wordle contains the letters a, e, r, l & t.
Open the gates of hell: 🙂
ALERT,
ALTER,
ALTRE,
ARTEL,
LATER,
RATEL,
TALER or
TELAR
🙂
(Ref on word search: https://www.dcode.fr/words-containing)
I knocked this code up, seems fairly logical, hope you enjoyed it 🙂
I would add that this could be improved a little bit by discounting counting where the same letter turns up twice in each word, to make it slightly more accurate… perhaps I’ll do that later 🙂
I just modified the code to not count repeats of the same character in the same word.
<?php
$wordsArray = array(
"Aargh","Aback","Abaft","Aboon","About","Above","Abuse","Accel",
"Acute","Adieu","Adios","Admit","Adopt","Adown","Adult","Afoot",
"Afore","Afoul","After","Again","Agape","Agent","Agogo","Agone",
"Agree","Ahead","Ahull","Alack","Alcon","Alife","Alike","Aline",
"Alive","Allow","Aloft","Aloha","Alone","Along","Aloof","Aloud",
"Alter","Amiss","Among","Amply","Amuck","Anger","Angry","Apace",
"Apart","Apple","Apply","Aptly","Arear","Argue","Arise","Aside",
"Askew","Aught","Avast","Avoid","Award","Aware","Awful","Badly",
"Bakaw","Bally","Basic","Basis","Basta","Beach","Begad","Begin",
"Below","Birth","Black","Blame","Bless","Blige","Blind","Block",
"Blood","Board","Bothe","Brain","Brava","Brave","Bravo","Bread",
"Break","Brief","Bring","Broad","Brown","Build","Burst","Buyer",
"Canny","Carry","Catch","Cause","Chain","Chair","Cheap","Check",
"Chest","Chief","Child","China","Chook","Circa","Civil","Claim",
"Class","Clean","Clear","Climb","Clock","Close","Coach","Coast",
"Count","Court","Cover","Coyly","Crazy","Cream","Crime","Cross",
"Crowd","Crown","Cycle","Daily","Damme","Dance","Death","Depth",
"Dildo","Dimly","Dirty","Ditto","Doubt","Draft","Drama","Dream",
"Dress","Drily","Drink","Drive","Dryly","Dully","Early","Earth",
"Empty","Enemy","Enjoy","Enter","Entry","Equal","Error","Event",
"Exact","Exist","Extra","Faint","Faith","False","Fatly","Fault",
"Feyly","Field","Fifth","Fight","Final","First","Fitly","Floor",
"Focus","Force","Forte","Forth","Frame","Frank","Fresh","Frick",
"Front","Fruit","Fudge","Fully","Funny","Furth","Gaily","Gayly",
"Giant","Glass","Godly","Golly","Grand","Grant","Grass","Gratz",
"Great","Green","Gross","Group","Guess","Guide","Hallo","Haply",
"Happy","Harsh","Hasta","Havoc","Heart","Heavy","Hella","Hello",
"Hence","Henry","Horse","Hotel","Hotly","House","Howay","Howdy",
"Hullo","Human","Huzza","Icily","Ideal","Image","Imply","Index",
"Infra","Inner","Input","Issue","Japan","Jesus","Jildi",
"Joint","Jolly","Jones","Judge","Kapow","Knife","Large","Laugh",
"Laura","Laxly","Layer","Learn","Leave","Legal","Lento",
"Level","Lewis","Light","Limit","Local","Loose","Lordy","Lowly",
"Lucky","Lunch","Madly","Magic","Major","March","Marry","Match",
"Maybe","Mercy","Metal","Minor","Minus","Model","Money","Month",
"Moral","Motor","Mouth","Music","Naked","Nasty","Naval","Neath",
"Never","Newly","Night","Nobly","Noise","North","Novel","Nurse",
"Occur","Oddly","Offer","Often","Order","Other","Ought","Outer",
"Owner","Panel","Paper","Party","Peace","Peter","Phase","Phone",
"Piano","Piece","Pilot","Pitch","Place","Plain","Plane","Plant",
"Plate","Plonk","Plumb","Point","Pound","Power","Press","Price",
"Pride","Prime","Prior","Prize","Proof","Proud","Prove","Psych",
"Queen","Queer","Quick","Quiet","Quite","Radio","Raise","Ramen",
"Range","Rapid","Ratio","Reach","Ready","Redly","Refer","Relax",
"Reply","Right","River","Roman","Rough","Round","Route","Royal",
"Rugby","Rural","Sadly","Salve","Scale","Scene","Scope","Score",
"Secus","Selly","Sense","Serve","Shall","Shape","Share","Sharp",
"Sheep","Sheer","Sheet","Shift","Shily","Shirt","Shock","Shoot",
"Short","Shyly","Sight","Silly","Simon","Since","Sixth","Skill",
"Skoal","Slash","Sleek","Sleep","Slyly","Small","Smart","Smile",
"Smith","Smoke","Sniff","Solid","Solve","Sooey","Sorry","Sound",
"South","Space","Spang","Spare","Speak","Speed","Spend","Spite",
"Split","Sport","Squad","Srsly","Staff","Stage","Stand","Stark",
"Start","State","Steam","Steel","Steep","Stick","Still","Stock",
"Stone","Store","Stour","Study","Stuff","Style","Sugar","Super",
"Sweet","Table","Tally","Tanto","Taste","Teach","Terry","Thame",
"Thank","Theme","There","Thiam","Thick","Thine","Thing","Think",
"Third","Throw","Thwap","Tight","Title","Today","Tomoz","Total",
"Touch","Tough","Tower","Track","Trade","Train","Treat","Trend",
"Trial","Truly","Trust","Truth","Twice","Twirp","Uncle","Under",
"Union","Unity","Until","Upper","Upset","Urban","Usual","Utter",
"Vague","Valid","Value","Verry","Video","Viola","Visit","Vital",
"Vivat","Voice","Wacko","Wahey","Wanly","Waste","Watch","Water",
"Wetly","Where","Which","While","Whist","White","Whole","Whose",
"Whoso","Wilma","Wirra","Woman","Woops","World","Worry","Would",
"Wowie","Write","Wrong","Wryly","Yecch","Yeeha","Yeesh","Young",
"Yours","Youth","Yowch","Zowie");
$alphabet = array(
"a"=>0,"b"=>0,"c"=>0,"d"=>0,"e"=>0,"f"=>0,"g"=>0,"h"=>0,
"i"=>0,"j"=>0,"k"=>0,"l"=>0,"m"=>0,"n"=>0,"o"=>0,"p"=>0,
"q"=>0,"r"=>0,"s"=>0,"t"=>0,"u"=>0,"v"=>0,"w"=>0,"x"=>0,
"y"=>0,"z"=>0);
//echo count($wordsArray);
for ($i=0; $i<count($wordsArray); $i++)
{
// REMOVE repeat characters from the word
// so that same characters are not counted twice
$stringWithDoubleCharactersRemoved = count_chars( $wordsArray[$i], 3);
// split word into individual characters and put those
// characters into an array
$splitWordToCharactersArray = str_split($stringWithDoubleCharactersRemoved);
// examine each of these characters and increase characters
// in the alphabet array
for ($a=0; $a<count($splitWordToCharactersArray); $a++)
{
echo $splitWordToCharactersArray[$a]."<BR>";
// increase the count of the character detected in the alphabet array
// strtolower is needed to lower case first character of word so that
// $alphabet array will increase it's count for that first character
$alphabet[strtolower($splitWordToCharactersArray[$a])]++;
}
echo "----"."<BR>";
}
arsort($alphabet);
foreach ($alphabet as $key => $val) {
echo "$key = $val<BR>";
}
$string = "aaarff";
$result = count_chars($string,3);
echo $result;
?>
The results are now:
This still means, for my list of words that contain 5 characters in the English language that the best first word to use in Wordle is still ALERT 🙂
….. however, I just came across a list of over 2000 5 letter words in English…
<?php
$wordsArray = array(
"aback","abase","abate","abaya","abbey","abbot","abets","abhor","abide","abode","abort","about","above","abuse","abuts","abyss","ached","aches","acids","acing","ackee","acorn",
"acres","acrid","acted","actin","actor","acute","adage","adapt","added","adder","addle","adept","adieu","adios","adits","adman","admin","admit","adobe","adobo","adopt","adore",
"adorn","adult","adzes","aegis","aeons","aerie","affix","afire","afoot","afore","after","again","agape","agate","agave","agent","aggro","agile","aging","aglow","agony","agora",
"agree","ahead","ahold","aided","aider","aides","ailed","aimed","aimer","aioli","aired","aisle","alarm","album","alder","aleph","alert","algae","algal","alias","alibi","alien",
"align","alike","alive","alkyd","alkyl","allay","alley","allot","allow","alloy","allyl","aloes","aloft","aloha","alone","along","aloof","aloud","alpha","altar","alter","altos",
"alums","amass","amaze","amber","ambit","amble","ambos","amend","amide","amine","amino","amiss","amity","amnio","among","amour","amped","ample","amply","amuse","ancho","angel",
"anger","angle","angry","angst","anima","anime","anion","anise","ankle","annas","annex","annoy","annul","anode","anole","antic","antis","antsy","anvil","aorta","apace","apart",
"aphid","apnea","apple","apply","apron","apses","apter","aptly","aquas","arbor","ardor","areal","areas","areca","arena","argon","argot","argue","argus","arias","arils","arise",
"armed","armor","aroma","arose","array","arrow","arses","arson","artsy","asana","ascot","ashen","ashes","aside","asked","asker","askew","aspen","aspic","assay","asses","asset",
"aster","astir","asura","atlas","atman","atoll","atoms","atone","atopy","attic","audio","audit","auger","aught","augur","aunts","aunty","aural","auras","autos","auxin","avail",
"avers","avert","avian","avoid","avows","await","awake","award","aware","awash","awful","awoke","axels","axial","axils","axing","axiom","axion","axles","axons","azide","azole",
"azure","babel","babes","babka","backs","bacon","baddy","badge","badly","bagel","baggy","bails","bairn","baits","baize","baked","baker","bakes","baldy","baled","baler","bales",
"balks","balky","balls","balms","balmy","balsa","banal","bands","bandy","banes","bangs","banjo","banks","barbs","bards","bared","barer","bares","barge","barks","barmy","barns",
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$alphabet = array(
"a"=>0,"b"=>0,"c"=>0,"d"=>0,"e"=>0,"f"=>0,"g"=>0,"h"=>0,
"i"=>0,"j"=>0,"k"=>0,"l"=>0,"m"=>0,"n"=>0,"o"=>0,"p"=>0,
"q"=>0,"r"=>0,"s"=>0,"t"=>0,"u"=>0,"v"=>0,"w"=>0,"x"=>0,
"y"=>0,"z"=>0);
//echo count($wordsArray);
for ($i=0; $i<count($wordsArray); $i++)
{
// REMOVE repeat characters from the word
// so that same characters are not counted twice
$stringWithDoubleCharactersRemoved = count_chars( $wordsArray[$i], 3);
// split word into individual characters and put those
// characters into an array
$splitWordToCharactersArray = str_split($stringWithDoubleCharactersRemoved);
// examine each of these characters and increase characters
// in the alphabet array
for ($a=0; $a<count($splitWordToCharactersArray); $a++)
{
echo $splitWordToCharactersArray[$a]."<BR>";
// increase the count of the character detected in the alphabet array
// strtolower is needed to lower case first character of word so that
// $alphabet array will increase it's count for that first character
$alphabet[strtolower($splitWordToCharactersArray[$a])]++;
}
echo "----"."<BR>";
}
arsort($alphabet);
foreach ($alphabet as $key => $val) {
echo "$key = $val<BR>";
}
$string = "aaarff";
$result = count_chars($string,3);
echo $result;
?>
The results are now:
So,
From a much bigger list; a, s, e, r, o are the most popular letters (and that is discounting like characters in the same word)
This means the very best word to start WORDLE with is:
AROSE
🙂
… even without ignoring repeat characters, the best starting word for Wordle is still AROSE 🙂