I’m still playing Wordle. My statistics show that I played 180 times until today. So that’s quite a long time for me. It seems that the hype is declining already and less and less people are still playing it.

One of the common mistakes that I need myself to remind me again and again is not to ‘guess’ the next word when I’ve several letters correct in Wordle. A good example is ‘unny’, which could match ‘bunny’, ‘funny’, ‘gunny’, ‘punny’, ‘runny’, ‘sunny’ and ‘tunny’. But you only have six tries in Wordle at all, right? In total you have 6 x 5 = 30 guesses. So choose wisely.

To improve my Wordle success, I tried to find better start words which matches the English language. The Internet came up with the following:

The frequency of the letters of the alphabet in English

The inventor of Morse code, Samuel Morse (1791-1872), needed to know this so that he could give the simplest codes to the most frequently used letters. He did it simply by counting the number of letters in sets of printers’ type. The figures he came up with were:

 
12,000 	E 	2,500 	F
9,000 	T 	2,000 	W, Y
8,000 	A, I, N, O, S 	1,700 	G, P
6,400 	H 	1,600 	B
6,200 	R 	1,200 	V
4,400 	D 	800 	K
4,000 	L 	500 	Q
3,400 	U 	400 	J, X
3,000 	C, M 	200 	Z

So I used this sorted list to form my three words: “adieu”, “storm” and “lynch”. I resolve most Wordles with four tries. But from time to time I still suck and ruin my streak.