What Every Wordle Answer So Far Reveals

The numbers at a glance

Wordle does repeat answers

A lot of advice says yesterday’s answer can never come back. It can. 30 words have now been the answer twice or more, so a used word is less likely, not impossible.

• CIGAR#0, #1689
• SQUAD#296, #1704
• AWAKE#4, #1708
• LINEN#51, #1718
• GRADE#15, #1730
• IVORY#59, #1742
• COMET#122, #1745
• SANDY#1226, #1750
• STAND#57, #1765
• BRING#164, #1778
• CLOCK#160, #1788
• AGREE#70, #1797
• SMILE#830, #1806
• THUMB#115, #1814
• BREAK#172, #1819
• ACUTE#190, #1833
• BATON#183, #1840
• STOUT#65, #1850
• FLUME#68, #1867
• GRIPE#187, #1874
• FEIGN#19, #1875
• TRACE#179, #1889
• CLICK#134, #1893
• FOCUS#267, #1912
• FORTH#55, #1922
• PROVE#163, #1936
• MAJOR#20, #1938
• STINK#14, #1948
• MOTOR#111, #1958
• FIRST#56, #1968

Double letters are far more common than you think

Guides often say about one Wordle in six has a repeated letter. In the real answers it is 31%, about 1 in 3. That works out to roughly 2.2 puzzles a week. The letters that double most often are E, O, L, A and T, and a few answers use one letter three times, such as DADDY, EERIE, EMCEE and ERROR.

Our double-letter guide shows how to spot them early.

Where the letters fall

S is the most common first letter by a wide margin, and E and Y are the most common last letters.

The rarest letters are rare indeed: Q, Z, X and J each turn up in no more than 1.7% of answers.

Which opening word works best?

We played ten popular openers against every possible answer. The vowel-heavy favourites do worst.

Each word was played as the first guess against all 2,392 words that are or have been Wordle answers (through #1971). "Answers left" is how many answers would still fit the colours you get back, averaged over every possible answer. Lower is better.

More on choosing an opener in our starting words guide.

New words the original list never had

77 answers were not on the original 2,315-word answer list. These are the most recent:

• PRATE#1967
• DRECK#1966
• PARCH#1965
• SCOOT#1962
• YAHOO#1960
• GRIST#1957
• HOLEY#1953
• TRILL#1952
• PSYCH#1943
• YODEL#1941
• UNCAP#1940
• BUMPY#1939
• STREW#1937
• PEEVE#1932
• USURY#1931
• RITZY#1930
• MESSY#1923
• PAGER#1920
• WAKEN#1918
• NIFTY#1911
• ASTER#1910
• LIVEN#1907
• BEIGE#1905
• SOUPY#1904

The original answers still waiting

450 words from the original list have not been the answer yet. Because new words are added too, there is no telling which of these will come up, or when.

How we counted

The answers come from our past answers archive, which adds each puzzle automatically once it is over in every US time zone. This page is rebuilt from that archive every day, so every number above is current to the latest puzzle.

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