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Say Adieu to Adieu: Pick One of These Best Wordle Starter Words to Help You Win

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Last updated: 2025/07/11 at 6:02 AM
News Room Published 11 July 2025
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Is it just me, or has Wordle been awfully tough lately? (This one was a stumper.) I’ve had a couple days lately where I really thought I would run out of guesses before solving it. I’ve already shared my easy winning strategy for playing Wordle. Essentially, I begin with TRAIN and CLOSE, then look at any correct letters and try a word that uses them in numerous spots. When I need to picture possible winning words, I utilize Xs to spell out the correct letters I know so far. So far, the strategy is still working. 

And now there’s a new tool you can use. I call it my Wordle player cheat sheet. With help from the big brains at the Oxford English Dictionary, I’ve put together a list ranking all the letters in the alphabet, listed in the order they’re most used in English words. So as you might have guessed, E and A are great letters to throw into a Wordle guess. J and Q, not so much.

I also asked readers and friends to share their Wordle strategies. Hope you’ll find some tips to freshen up your game play here.

Be a CHAMP

“I used to use TRAIN as my first guess; now my first two words are always NOISE and TRULY. If the word isn’t apparent, I next use CHAMP. Those three words give me 15 letters that are most common, including all 6 vowels. If I’m still totally lost, I go with DEBUG, giving me three more consonants.”  —Dan Hughes

Use yesterday’s winner

“I always start with the previous day’s winning word. Continuity!”  —Marc Hirsh

The random method

“For a long time I used two starter words that gave a lot of vowels and common letters, which always made me a solid four-line winner and sometimes three. But then I branched out and just tossed in random words. Still made me a solid four line winner, sometimes three and a couple of twos.”  —Susan C. Young

Another vote for random

“I have almost no strategy. My wordle (and quordle) play is a random free for all. I get wordle in 4 guesses almost every time. I use whatever starter word pops into my head. I will use a second, random word to try to get more hits.”  —Debe Ashe Hoover

Importance of A and R

“I also always type out what I have correct with ‘X’ in the unknown spot(s). Often times a visual person like me can then see the correct answer right away. Also, if I have an ‘a’ and an ‘r’ in the wrong place, I almost always move them to the 3rd and 4th spots, so it (could spell) ‘are’ or ‘ard,’ etc. That’s where they belong a large percentage of the time, if I don’t already have it correct.”  —Christine Eberhard Minor

Get those vowels

“My strategy is starting with AUDIO to target four vowels.”  —Vanessa Bloy

Did we mention vowels?

“ALOUD or OCEAN are my usual.”  —Juli Jansen Pelletier

‘Stare’ at the puzzle

“I stopped playing — but my starter word was always STARE.”  —Scott Lerman

Use a ‘straw’

“(My starter word) is STRAW…”. —Stefan Myslicki

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