In the English language, there are approximately 12,500 five-letter words, which means there are roughly that many opportunities to win at Wordle, the wildly popular online word game that’s become a daily obsession for millions of people around the world.
Despite the simplistic nature of the game, and the total lack of community built around it, discussing Wordle wins and displaying them on social media (without spoiling the daily word puzzle), is almost as popular as playing the word game itself.
But how do you win? How do you ensure that you don’t waste your six precious chances to guess the right word? First, a reminder about the game mechanics:
The game, which you can find here, opens as a gird of five-by-six empty squares. There’s a virtual keyboard below where you type in your five-letter guess and hit enter. You can also backspace before you hit enter. You cannot enter letters out of sequence or drag and drop them.
This is a simple game. For the record, we’re only talking about the basic level here, not ‘Hard Mode,” which requires that you use any reveals in subsequent guesses.
Once you enter the letters, the game immediately color codes your entries:
Gray: Letter is not in the word.
Orange: It’s in there but in the wrong place.
Green: Right letter, right place.
To win, you have to guess the word in six attempts.
How you do that is not as simple as it seems, especially if you want to win, and not just in six tries, but in as few attempts as possible for ultimate Wordle street cred.
Virtually every world has vowels in it, and they can define the open sound of the word (just as consonants can define the plosives or hard sounds). Find a word that can use as many of the AEIOU (and sometimes Y) letters as possible. Even if
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