How to Improve Your Wordle Strategy

If you found today's puzzle challenging, here are some proven strategies to boost your Wordle success rate:

1. Consider letter frequency: The most common letters in English are E, A, R, I, O, T, N, and S – prioritize these in your guesses.
2. Start with vowel-rich words: Beginning with words like "ROAST," "RAISE," or "CRANE" helps identify vowels quickly and also use the most common letters in English.
3. Use your second guess strategically: Based on your first results, choose a word that uses entirely different letters to maximize letter discovery.
4. Watch for double letters: Words like "SWEET" or "HELLO" with repeated letters can be tricky to spot. The Wordle editors love using these kinds of words. Some of Wordle's previous answers have included: TALLY, HIPPO, AFFIX, HILLY, and TROOP.
5. Watch for two of the same vowels: "JEWEL" or "SEVEN" with the same vowel used twice are another favorite of Wordle editors.
6. Use our Wordle Helper tool: If you're truly stuck, our Wordle Solver can help you narrow down possibilities based on the clues you've already discovered.

Best Wordle Starting Words

Before we get to the hints and answers, let's make sure that you're starting off with the right Wordle start word.

Based on an analysis of Google Books, Peter Norvig determined that the most common letter used in books was E (12.5%) followed by T (9.3%), A (8.0%), O (7.6%), I (7.6%), N (7.2%), S (6.5%), and R (6.3%).

This analysis closely resembles the Wheel of Fortune freebie letters RSTLNE. So you want to make sure that your starting word for Wordle consists of as many of these letters as possible.

Therefore, these are some of the best Wordle starting words:

• ROAST
• RAISE
• NOTES
• CRANE
• RESIN
• TARES
• TEARS
• CRATE
• SLANT
• LEAST
• SLICE
• TRIED
• CLOSE
• TRACE
• TRAIN
• TRICE