Summary
Puzzle gamers all over the world were stumped by the sudden arrival ofWordle, a guessing game where players check if they can guess a five-letter word in just six tries. The thing is, players only get oneWordlea day, and while players can always repeat their attempts, failing the entire set can get quite frustrating for fans.
Thankfully, word game savants can find a lot of creative ways to guess today’sWordlein as few tries as possible. With statistics, word frequencies, and smart guesswork, players can score theirWordleof the day much faster than their friends. However, what is an optimalWordlestrategy?
Updated July 29, 2025 by Rhenn Taguiam:With Wordle remaining quite the entertaining choice for a pastime for both puzzle fans and word game lovers, it’s no surprise that the game’s simple mechanics have maintained a steady stream of older and even newer players. In this regard, fans might be interested in effective strategies to secure the day’s current word without resorting to finding results online.
And while it’s perfectly possible to predict the word through sheer luck, certain strategies could make the puzzles easier - especially if players know how to execute them properly. Included among these strategies would be looking into solving patterns, relying on a word database, knowing what to do with gray tiles, and knowing which word types to avoid.
1Check Recent Statistics For Trends
Spice Things Up To Avoid Predictability
Players enjoying theirWordlepuzzle gameplaycan also spice things up by opting out of the words they tend to use across their sessions. This way, players remove the element of predictability at their end, and they can always approach sessions with a more open mind. Beyond this element, however, is the idea that checking in-game statistics (assuming players are logged in) can help players spot trends they can change if they’re having difficulty with their solving process.
Assuming players begin sessions by maximizing vowels with words like “Adieu,” knowing where they usually get stuck can encourage players to be more attentive to the words they use to guess. Players can also backtrack on how likely they are to guess a word and figure out trends they’ve used to accomplish this. For instance, if they tend to crack the code along the second or third word, it likely means their first word strategy works. However, if it’s taking more guesses to do so, then it might be time to change their initial guess.
2Skip Gray Tiles When Guessing
Try To Use Completely New Words
As with other guessing games,Wordlegameplaydoes give players hints on whether they got a letter right, wrong, or just close enough. However, sometimes players don’t immediately get the letter they need and end up with a yellow “maybe” and entirely useless gray letters. While players who are at their wit’s end might end up wanting to use the same grayed-out letters for a new combination, this is highly not recommended.
Even if players get a new yellow or even a green after reusing the gray letter, this still means one useless letter filled up the spot of a “blank” letter that needs another word to guess. A worse situation could happen if players use more gray letters, as this blocks out more sections that could’ve been used to eliminate more letters in the alphabet. This problem can be solved if players think of a completely different word without using their grayed letters, as this maximizes both the guess count and the existing knowledge players have on the word to be guessed.
3Avoid Repeat Letters For First Guesses
Maximize Letter Count When Using The First Guess
AsWordlepuzzles can take one word from thousands of potential 5-letter words in the English language, it’s easy to get scared of the prospect of aWordlepuzzle repeating two or even three letters. This instance is exactly what happened to unpopular words such as “Mummy” (June 04, 2025) and even “Knoll” (July 01, 2025). However, while more words with duplicate letters exist in 5-letter permutations, it’s highly unlikely for players to be able to guess them within the first submission. In turn, players should skip words they think of with two letters and instead maximize the space to cover five unique letters.
Similar to using grayed-out words, using the same letter within a guess can lead to even more confusion: a word with the right letter but the wrong position means at least two yellows will be filled, and not having a green letter means one spot remains an unknown variable. At worst, only one letter becomes yellow, meaning players only know they know one letter is somewhere in the word but are only aware of where it doesn’t belong.
4Get A Word List
Use A Website For Word References
One of the most efficient ways of solving aWordlepuzzle is to actuallyacquire a nifty list of five-letter words. That way, players will be able to have a more accurate resource of potential words they could use to solve the puzzle.
Websites such asBest Word Listare a reliable source of five-letter words, which players could use to make more reasonable word guesses. When paired with other clues such as smart starting words and the like, a word list can become a godsend and help players solve theirWordlepuzzles much faster.
5Stay Alert For Same Letters In A Word
Reserve Same-Letter Patterns As Last Resorts
One of the most annoying properties of aWordlepuzzle isn’t necessarily theword being complicated and confusing. Rather, some words tend to be difficult to solve because the answer to the puzzle uses one letter multiple times.
When players encounter an “O” or an “E” in a puzzle, there’s always a chance of that letter having a repeat. Likewise, consonants such as “S” and “L” may be victims of this tricky situation as well. Players need to stay sharp for potential words that use these letter combinations.
6Experiment With The Letter Order
Juggle Letters If Unsure
When players start getting the right letters but find them in the wrong order, there’s always the risk of wasting tries when using these letters improperly. However, players may be surprised to realize that there’s a way tomake use of these letter guesses more efficientlythrough the right letter order.
Essentially, players may want to try to position guessed consonants at the start and end of word guesses. Likewise, vowels almost always end up as second or fourth letters inWordlepuzzles. Knowing these intricacies can make solvingWordlepuzzles more practical.
7Type It, Write It Down
Use A Separate Reference When Guessing
Considering how players only have six guesses to solve aWordlepuzzle, players should be extra careful when solving puzzles. Instead of having a mental image of the words they’re using as guesses, they may have an easier timetyping or even writing down their guessesinstead.
At its core, it all has to do with being able to see one’s progress physically to free up processing space in the mind. After all, having a reliable list of words to choose from means that players can just think of words and type them down, and then only make a more decisive guess afterwards.
8Form Words With Commonly-Used Letters
Use Common Letters When Forming Guesses
The first guess is often the most important word in any round ofWordle, and it may help to apply a bit of strategy whenever thinking of the first word to use as a guess. Interestingly, it might help to apply some linguistics when thinking of such a word. Essentially, it may help to form a first guess using the most common letters in the English language.
Accordingto studies, when ranked, the order of the letters in the English language from most commonly used to least used are E, T, A, I, N, O, S, H, R, D, L, U, C, M, F, W, Y, G, P, B, V, K, Q, J, X, and Z. It’s important to note that this alphabet was the basis of Samuel Morse’s Morse code, who observed typesets used for printers. Players ofWordlemay want to form words using letters that are extremely common.
9Understand Letter Frequency In Word Games
Remember How Frequent Letters Are In Games
While players may already know the most frequently used letters in English print, statistics tend to be slightly different in thecontext of word games. In the sameLexico by Oxfordsource, it says word games may not focus on common words but rather letter frequency.
The 2004 version of the Concise Oxford Dictionary has this list of common letters in English words: E, A, R, I, O, T, N, S, L, C, U, D, P, M, H, G, B, F, Y, W, K, V, X, Z, J, Q.
10Eliminate Vowels First
Use A Word With Many Vowels
Considering the most common letters in the English language, one might notice that all the vowels are in the top half of the list. Moreover, save for U, all the other letters are in the Top 10, with E being the most commonly used letter in English words. Since there are five vowels in the alphabet, being able to determine whether they are used in aWordlepuzzle drastically gives players better odds.
As such,more experienced puzzle playersrealized it may help to find words that use as many vowels as possible as their first guess. This also explains why “ADIEU” makes for such a good first word, considering it already uses four of the five vowels.
