Wordle guides
Choose a topic: opening words, second guesses, scores or Wordle answer history. Each guide starts with its main advice and includes a short note on the test.
Choose an opening word
Compare strong starters, understand the rankings and decide whether a tiny statistical edge is worth changing your routine.
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The Best Wordle Starting Words, by Three Different Measures
Compare screened opening words by six-turn solve rate, successful-game length, first-turn information and shortlist size.
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Wordle Openers: Win Rate, Average and Volatility
Rounded win rates barely separate strong openers. Volatility, the standard deviation of simulated game length, shows how consistent each opener is.
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Is an Obscure Wordle Opener Worth Memorizing?
Compare the measured gap between an unfamiliar top-ranked opener and familiar strong alternatives.
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Make better moves
Read feedback, choose a second guess, handle trap families and put your score in perspective.
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Wordle in the Classroom: Five-Letter Word Games for Teachers
A practical classroom lesson with word bands, printable activities and guidance for choosing five-letter words for different learners.
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What's a Good Wordle Score? A Solver Benchmark
See how a consistent solver's scores are distributed, and why its average is useful context rather than a target every player must beat.
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10 Common Wordle Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Ten habits worth reconsidering, including vowel-heavy openers, rare-letter fishing, premature guesses and accidental reuse of grays.
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How a Strong Wordle Solve Unfolds, Turn by Turn
Worked solver examples show why a second guess that separates the remaining answers can be more useful than an immediate answer attempt.
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Why Wordle Trap Families Are So Difficult
Families such as -OUND, -ATCH and -AUNT share four letters. Learn when to stop guessing candidates and use a separating word instead.
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How to Choose Your Second Wordle Guess
Five CRANE examples show when to test fresh letters, when to keep a confirmed one and why the size of the candidate list matters.
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Review Wordle answers
Find letter patterns, repeats, answer-history totals and the origins of words that have appeared.
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The Hardest and Easiest Wordle Words, Measured
Every past Wordle answer ranked by a reproducible solver-difficulty percentile, with the factors behind the hardest and easiest ranks.
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The Most Common Letters in Past Wordle Answers
Past Wordle answers show which letters start, end and appear most often, and why rare letters are usually poor early targets.
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Has Wordle Ever Repeated an Answer? Records, Repeats and Oddities
A dated look at repeated answers, words without A, E, I, O or U, scarce-letter answers, hard-day streaks and per-year records from the archive.
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How Many Wordle Answers Have Been Used?
Count the published answers, repeats and words on this site's possible-answer list that have not appeared in the dated archive.
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Nine Wordle Answers and Where Their Words Came From
From KHAKI and SALSA to QUARK and GECKO, nine short etymologies with a source link for every word.
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