How to win at Wordle

Concise Oxford Dictionary THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR WORDLE 273, 19 MARCH 2022

Here's fun: search for Wordle on Google and look at the Google logo. Cool, huh?

Guess who's late to the party again. So Wordle is a worldwide phenomenon, and you can check it out here. The site explains the rules well, so I won't explain them here. Instead, lets get straight onto those tips:

Some sites would have you believe that it's best to find out what vowel(s) are in the word. They're right, but only to a certain extent.


Don't do this

Why not? Because you want to get to the actual answer as fast as possible, and that's probably the least efficient way to do so. Nearly all Wordle answers contain either one or two vowels, and even if it did contain more, it would probably be a duplicated letter. Therefore, instead, look at words using the most common letters in the English language. You can look this up scientifically:


Based on Concise Oxford Dictionary 2004, from https://www.lexico.com/explore/which-letters-are-used-most

However, I prefer to use Scrabble scores:


The lowest scores are for the most common letters



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