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What’s your optimal 5-letter starting word? Mine is HOUSE. It has 3 vowels (including E which is the most frequent in the English language) and S which helps test for plurals.
The optimal starting word is ARISE, as it partitions the possible words most evenly across the different green/yellow/grey colour combinations
What’s your optimal 5-letter starting word? Mine is HOUSE. It has 3 vowels (including E which is the most frequent in the English language) and S which helps test for plurals.
What’s your optimal 5-letter starting word? Mine is HOUSE. It has 3 vowels (including E which is the most frequent in the English language) and S which helps test for plurals.
I coded some heuristics and ran them on a Scrabble dictionary: https://github.com/lalaithion/wordle
You are trying to use the word that once you get the match result back, it discards the most number of words.
These two are not the same thing.
What’s your optimal 5-letter starting word? Mine is HOUSE. It has 3 vowels (including E which is the most frequent in the English language) and S which helps test for plurals.
AROSE UNTIL DUCHY BLIMP GAWKS
What’s your optimal 5-letter starting word? Mine is HOUSE. It has 3 vowels (including E which is the most frequent in the English language) and S which helps test for plurals.
the optimal 5 letter starting work is SERAI (as computed by someone's AI)
Correction: a month ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29439191
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The optimal starting word is ARISE, as it partitions the possible words most evenly across the different green/yellow/grey colour combinations
ARISE is good, but AROSE is better, and SOARE is the best: On average it eliminates all but 2264 out of ~12000 5 letter words. https://github.com/lalaithion/wordle
What’s your optimal 5-letter starting word? Mine is HOUSE. It has 3 vowels (including E which is the most frequent in the English language) and S which helps test for plurals.
I coded a small program, and the sequence of words that I use (not interchangeable, you'd use them in sequence to gather more info) is: AROSE UNTIL DUCHY BLIMP GAWKS
- Fun - Simple - One puzzle a day, and everyone plays the same one so you can share and compare scores - No account creation, logins, ads, subscriptions, data mining All the right ingredients for going viral. I just hope the last point stays unchanged.