Best Wordle Words Mathematically

Best Wordle Words Mathematically

TLDR: Best Wordle Words

AROSE

UNTIL

DUCHY

BLIMP

GAWKY

How to select the best words to guess in Wordle?

Here's my strategy:

1.  Find the frequency of letters in words for five letter words:

AESORILTNUDCYMPHBGKFWVQJXQ

2. Now going left to right find words that contain the most frequently used letters.

AESOR ILTNU DCYMPHBGKFWVQJXQ

How to find what words contain AESOR?

We can use the tool "grep" on unix with something like this which finds all five letters words with AESOR.

[Trigger warning: actual unix tools code😱:]

grep "^[a-z]\{5\}$" /usr/share/dict/words | grep a | grep e | grep s | grep o | grep r

One word pops out: “AROSE”.

2. Now look at the letters that are next:

ILTNU DCYMPHBGKFWVQJXQ

Fortunately one word fits the bill, "UNTIL"

3. Looking at the next letters, we don't have a word that contains "DCYMP", so we get as many as we can and then get the next most frequently used letters:

DCYMPHBGKFWVQJXQ

Which produces "DUCHY".

Then the next word is "GAWKY".

Enjoy.

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PS: A bonus graphic showing probability of letter distribution within a word.

So when you get a "w", it's usually in the first two letters, and a "y" is near the end.