So what are the best words to start a game of Wordle? It all depends on your objective for the game. Many dream of the day they can get the answer in one. In this case, you start every game with the same word with the hope that one day you be right. Once you picked your word it feels like your personal lottery number you don’t dare change it just in case the day you decide to do, it will be the day that the word comes up. For this strategy, you have to choose a word that hasn’t been the answer before. For this, you go to lists of words that have already appeared on the game and make sure that your word hasn’t appeared until now.
What makes a good first word? The real objective of the game is to daily find the word within the 6 attempts. the fewer attempts the better. The first word is a total guess so with it you trying to find letters that will ultimately help you find the right answer. Many prefer to start with a word that is vowel heavy. As there are only 5 of them you can find which ones appear in a word within a couple of guesses.
There are many 5 letter words with 4 Vowles like : ADIEU, AUDIO, AULOI, AUREI, LOUIE, MIAOU, OUIJA, OURIE,URAEI. All these words have 4 different vowels so there is a high chance that you be able to lock on one of them as part of the word.
One step away is 5 letter words with 3 vowls: ABUSE, ALONE, ARGUE, ARISE, EARLY, GUIDE, HOUSE, JUICE, MEDIA, MOVIE, MAUVE, NAIVE, OCEAN, PIANO, QUAIL, QUIET, QUITE, RADIO, RAISE, RATIO, SAUCE, UNION, VIDEO etc. Notice like the words above these also have all different vowels. There are five-letter words with repeated vowels e.g. AURAE but in this case, you wasting a one letter guess.
Many will argue that consonants are more helpful than Vowels. e.g. you can guess that a word has an A and an E in it but there are many words that contain those two vowels. You can easily go through your guesses without getting any closer to the answer. Consonants are more informative. So a popular strategy is to start with words that have more of them. Some popular first 5 letter words with 2 vowels are: GOURD, PALER, ROAST, TEARS, TRAIL, TREAD, TABLE, PEARS, STEAK, STEAM, POETS etc
Finally, for the constant heavy strategy, 5 letter words with just one vowel are used. CLAMP, DRINK, LIGHT, MARCH, MONTH, NIGHT, NORTH, RIGHT, SCENT, THINK, TRUCK, WITCH, WORLD, WORTH are some of them
One more thing to take into consideration before choosing your first word is letter frequency. The most commonly used letters of the English language are e, t, a, i, o, n, s, h, and r. The letters that are most commonly found at the beginning of words are t, a, o, d, and w. The letters that are most commonly found at the end of words are e, s, d, and t.