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Juju2bigdog
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10-26-2000
| Wednesday, July 15, 2026 - 7:22 am 
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And again a word I would not have said was an actual word.
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Egbok
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07-12-2000
| Wednesday, July 15, 2026 - 1:50 pm
Wordle 1,852 6/6
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Bzbee
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04-26-2004
| Wednesday, July 15, 2026 - 9:19 pm
Wordle 1,853 3/6
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Juju2bigdog
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10-26-2000
| Wednesday, July 15, 2026 - 11:41 pm
Bwahahaha, Eggie!!!
See you in the morning, Bzbee.
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Juju2bigdog
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10-26-2000
| Thursday, July 16, 2026 - 7:49 am
Wordle 1,853 4/6
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Egbok
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07-12-2000
| Thursday, July 16, 2026 - 11:51 am
Wordle 1,853 3/6
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Juju2bigdog
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10-26-2000
| Friday, July 17, 2026 - 7:17 am
Wordle 1,854 4/6
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Pamy
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01-01-2002
| Friday, July 17, 2026 - 9:09 am
I just started this. What is your fav starting word or is it a secret?
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Egbok
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07-12-2000
| Friday, July 17, 2026 - 9:53 am
Pamy, my two favorites are louie and miaou because they help eliminate vowels that are not in the word.
I hope you'll join us!! 
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Egbok
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07-12-2000
| Friday, July 17, 2026 - 12:30 pm
Wordle 1,854 4/6
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Bzbee
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04-26-2004
| Friday, July 17, 2026 - 9:45 pm
Wordle 1,855 5/6
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Juju2bigdog
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10-26-2000
| Saturday, July 18, 2026 - 7:46 am
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Egbok
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07-12-2000
| Saturday, July 18, 2026 - 12:37 pm
Wordle 1,855 4/6
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Pamy
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01-01-2002
| Saturday, July 18, 2026 - 3:04 pm
Cool Eggie! How do you guys get the little boxes that you post?
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Saturday, July 18, 2026 - 9:30 pm
Bwahahahaha!!! Eggie is using miaou!!! (I think Eggie laughed a bit when I told her I was using it for my first starter) Okay,I still sometimes use it too.
Yay, Pamy!!! Would love to have you join us.
To get the little boxes we all post, scroll down a bit after you get the puzzle solved, and there will be a SHARE button. You hit that, and it gets copied to your clipboard. Then you come to tvclubhouse, and paste it in here.
I will make another post after this one, giving you my compiled list of words to use for Wordle.
Welcome aboard.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Saturday, July 18, 2026 - 9:36 pm
FOR Pamy: The gibberish below is from a compiled Wordpad document I made a few years ago when I was trying to figure out to best play Wordle.
Sunday, March 29, 2026 - 11:00 pm
Yeah, it is so odd, I will share the words.
STARE
DOILY
CHUMP or PUNCH
STAIR
PEONY
LUNCH
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And I often use those same three starting words because they have all vowels and sometimes vowels and then common consonants.
Remember when I used miaou for my starting word? I may go back to that.
Egbok on TVCH 3-31-26 Thanks for sharing your starter words Juju. I have stuck with louie and miaou, arise and route. - in response to Juju2bigdog posting
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ADIEU and STORY
miaou and lyres
poise and gaudy
about and yield
about and liens or smile (missing y)
piety and aloud
saute or sauce and doily
raise and Young
Audio and pesty
Stare and doily OR crane and doily or STARE and DUMBO
avoid and rebuy or tuber
soare or arose and unity
Some good starting words are adieu, soare, arose, cutie, miaou or any with several vowels.
alien and yours
great and pious or opium
agile and buoys
Alone and juicy or unity or unify
12-24-22 - Rieann says - I usually use spare or spire for first word.
After checking all 12,972 words, the algorithm determined that the best starting options are:
SOARE
ROATE
RAISE
For reasons that are too complex to go into here, Glaiel concludes that ROATE is the best Wordle start word if you want to rule out possible answers as quickly as possible.
However, because ROATE doesn't actually feature in Wordle's possible answers list itself, you'll never get a 1/6 with it. For that reason, Glaiel recommends starting with RAISE.
Programmer Bertrand Fan took a similar approach(opens in new tab) and unsurprisingly came up with a very similar list:
SOARE
SAREE
SEARE
STARE
ROATE
Given that the top three don't feature in Wordle's possible answers list, that would make STARE the statistically best Wordle start word, based on Fan's analysis at least.
Coincidentally, Stare is the word independently picked by some of the Tom's Guide team months ago, without having seen that research, so that's the one we'd go for.
That decision was instead based on common sense; after all, S is the most common first letter among Wordle answers, A is the most common third letter and E the most common fifth letter. T and R, meanwhile, are the two most common consonants overall in the game.
So there you have it — for the Tom's Guide team at least, the best Wordle start word is STARE.
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The NYT's excellent WordleBot tool has its own list of the best Wordle start words — and it should know, given it's made by the people who now run Wordle.
The math behind it is based on how many of Wordle's 2,309 solutions are left, on average, after you play it, plus the average number of steps needed to solve it and a couple of other metrics. And by that measure, the best Wordle start word is apparently CRANE.
That's surprising to me — not least because STARE actually fares better in terms of average number of solutions, scoring 71.8 to CRANE's 78.7. But overall WordleBot awards CRANE a score of 99/100 and STARE only 97, and presumably it's better at math than I am, it being a computer and all that.
Here are WordleBot's 10 best Wordle start words:
CRANE
SLATE
CRATE
SLANT
TRACE
LANCE
CARTE
LEAST
TRICE
ROAST
STARE is at number 12 in this list — so pretty good, if not quite the best.
steal and unify (missing o)
buoys and alive
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Bzbee
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04-26-2004
| Saturday, July 18, 2026 - 9:51 pm
Wordle 1,856 3/6
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Juju2bigdog
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10-26-2000
| Sunday, July 19, 2026 - 7:57 am
Wordle 1,856 4/6
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Egbok
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07-12-2000
| Sunday, July 19, 2026 - 10:57 am
Wordle 1,856 3/6
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Juju, thanks for sharing more starter words.
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Bzbee
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04-26-2004
| Sunday, July 19, 2026 - 9:05 pm
Wordle 1,857 3/6
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I selected a word from your list.
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