To get the daily Wordle, players have to be as efficient as possible, managing to scour the recesses of their brains to find the perfect word that gets that all green line and the daily serotonin boost. Perhaps to brag on Twitter, maybe just for personal brain activities. One thing's for sure: no one wants to lose their one-a-day shot. One Reddit user has done the digging and found a chart that can help others keep that overall score high.
Redditor H_G_Bells seemingly has found a chart that can help players use the most optimal letters and decrease the potential guesswork of the daily Wordle. The chart came from the website gwicks.net, according to the graphic, which has compiled as many known words as possible and made a graph for each letter and its most likely position in a word. The graphs list nine letter positions, but for easy comparison, look at the first five positions as per the rules of Wordle. The bottom of the graphic helps define what each color means, and every bar stands for a position of a letter in a given word.
The most common letter, unsurprisingly, is E, used in almost 11 percent of all words. An E is used most commonly later on in words but in the case of eligible Wordle words, it's more likely used as the 2nd letter in a word. This forms a pattern with all the vowels, except for I, to usually fall in the 2nd position after some hard consonant. A and O are more likely to be in the middle of a word. S, N, R, T, and L look to be the most popular consonants that can fall anywhere between the 2nd and 5th spots. These letters have some darker shades of blue in the list, meaning the likelihood of a word containing that letter is high. The chart is very close when looking at the letters that are more likely to fall as the 5th letter, with T and L leading the way as most likely candidates.
The least common letters in all words are the usual suspects: J, Q, Z, X, and it's unlikely any five-letter Wordle word would contain any of those characters. F, V, and K are also uncommon, but these letters have higher odds of being in one of the five possible Wordle positions. More often than not, a daily Wordle won't include these letters unless it's one of those tricky words that causes some Wordle-induced frustration.
The list is not a sure cheat sheet for narrowing down possible words. There is a considerable margin of error since the words that compiled these graphs use up to nine positions. As one commenter states, S is a popular letter that would come at the end of words, usually to make a word plural. Wordle words usually try to keep the singular form of words and don't end of S. Hopefully this chart can be an added tool in a player's arsenal to get that Wordle of the day.
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