Word Game Guides
Strategy with the numbers behind it.
What These Are
Short pieces on playing word games better. Every number in them is computed from the same dictionary the tools on this site run on, at the moment the page is built, so nothing here is an estimate and nothing goes stale while the list stays current.
How To Open In Wordle, Measured Instead Of GuessedMeasured across 12,578 five letter words, not guessed at.
The Same Word, Three Different Scores34 percent of words score the same in both games. The rest do not.
The 124 Two Letter Words That Decide Close GamesAll 124 of them, and what they are actually for.
How To Play All Seven Tiles More Often26,732 racks spell a seven letter word. Most racks do not.
Why Your Word Game Rejects A Word You Know Is RealIt is not a bug. There is no single official word list.
Finding The Pangram First In Spelling BeeThe seven point bonus is usually the whole game.