We built the solvers first, then asked them questions: which first guess leaves the fewest Wordle answers, how many English words have an anagram, which letters really are the most common, and which words score the most with a real set of tiles. These guides are the answers.
The best Wordle starting words, tested on every five-letter word
We tested all 8,612 five-letter words as a first Wordle guess. RAISE leaves the fewest answers; SLATE wins over a full game. Full tables inside.
What is an anagram? Meaning, examples and how common they are
An anagram uses exactly the same letters in a new order. Examples, types, and what we found: 17.0% of English words have at least one anagram.
Letter frequency: the most common letters in English words
E is the most common letter in English words (11.5% of all letters), then S, I and A. Full table for all 26 letters, first and last letters, and 5 other languages.
The highest scoring Scrabble words, length by length
The highest scoring words at every length, checked against the real English tile set: one Z, one Q, one X, one J. Plus J, Q, X and Z words and Q without U.
Word records: the strangest words in English
The longest words with no vowels, no repeated letters, all five vowels in order, one keyboard row, and the longest palindromes, found in a 168,406 word list.
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