Wordle Statistics: What 1,875 Answers Reveal

This page breaks down every Wordle answer used so far, from the same verified archive that powers the rest of the site. You will find letter frequency overall, letter frequency by position, common starting and ending letters, vowel counts, and repeated-letter patterns. The numbers refresh with each daily update, so the charts stay current as new answers land rather than freezing at a single date.

Most common letters across every answer

E leads by a clear margin — it appears in 47% of all 1,875 Wordle answers. A follows at 40% and R at 36%, then O and T tie at 30%, and L and I both land at 28%. S, N and U round out the top ten. Together, these ten letters carry the bulk of the alphabet’s weight in Wordle’s answer pool.

At the other end, four letters barely register. Q and J each appear in only 1% of answers, and Z and X in 2%. The next-lowest group — V at 7%, W at 8%, K and F both at 9% — is far ahead of those four but still uncommon.

This is exactly why good openers lean on the top letters and skip the rare ones. A starting word built from E, A, R, O and T tests roughly a fifth of the alphabet’s total answer coverage in a single guess. A word built from Q, J, Z and X, by contrast, would only rule in or out four answers in a hundred no matter what colours came back.

One caveat matters here. These counts come from Wordle’s curated answer list, not English as a whole. The list favours everyday five-letter words, so the picture tilts toward common everyday spellings and away from the obscure ones the game will still accept as a guess.

Letter frequency by position

Overall letter counts hide where each letter actually lands, and that positional bias is where openers earn their keep. The next chart on the page breaks it down slot by slot.

The first letter is dominated by consonants. S is far ahead of the field with 277 answers, followed by C at 164, B at 140, T at 124 and A at 121. Vowel openers are rarer than most players expect — A is the only vowel in the top five, and O, I, U and E each open fewer than 65 answers.

The second slot flips completely. O leads with 236, followed by A at 234, R at 218, E at 198 and L at 163. Vowels hold four of the top five spots, with R and L the only strong consonant contenders.

The third slot is where vowels peak. A appears there 270 times, O 211, I 204, E 140 and U 133 — five vowels in the top six positions. If you know nothing else about the answer, betting on a vowel in the middle slot is the safest single call in the whole word.

The fourth slot swings back toward consonants, though E still leads it at 241 answers. N follows at 146, then L at 129, R at 128 and T at 112. Vowels retreat to the middle of the pack.

The last slot has the sharpest concentration of any position. E closes 371 answers and Y another 262 — together, more than a third of every Wordle answer ends in one of those two letters. T follows at 209, R at 158 and L at 135. This is why strategy lists favour words like STARE, CRANE and SLATE: they match Wordle’s real positional bias rather than English’s overall. To see how the numbers feed the archive itself, the answer list that powers these figures sits on the homepage.

Vowels: how many, and where

Most Wordle answers hold two vowels — 62% of them, a clear majority rather than a narrow lead. Single-vowel answers make up 29%, three-vowel answers 9%, and answers with four or five vowels round to zero. E does most of the heavy lifting: it appears in 47% of all answers, more than any other letter, vowel or consonant.

Where those vowels sit matters as much as how many there are. The second and third slots carry the bulk of the vowel weight in the archive — the second slot alone holds well over a thousand vowels across O, A, E, I and U, and the third slot adds another thousand. An opener that puts two different vowels in the second and third slots will score at least one green or yellow more often than not, which is why AUDIO, ADIEU and RAISE keep coming up as popular second-guess candidates.

Double letters and words with none

Repeated letters inside a single word are more common than most players assume. Of the 1,875 answers so far, 586 — 31%, close to a third — contain at least one repeated letter. Only 1,289 answers are built from five distinct letters.

The practical effect is small but real. If your first two guesses use ten different letters and every colour comes back grey or wrong-position, you have not narrowed the field as much as you think. Almost a third of the remaining candidates still contain a doubled letter somewhere. If a word looks like it should fit but a letter seems to be missing, try doubling one of the letters already confirmed before reaching for a new one.

Repeat patterns from the archive

This page focuses on the letter patterns inside the answers themselves, but one figure belongs here because it shapes how the statistics behave over time. Since 2 February 2026, Wordle has begun reusing past answers — 22 have come back so far — which changes how the archive grows. Words already used are no longer removed from the future pool, so the total number of entries now climbs slightly faster than the number of distinct answers.

The effect on the frequency numbers themselves is small, since one repeat barely nudges a letter’s percentage. Over time, though, the mix will shift as classic first-year answers cycle back through. For the full picture, see the full list of repeated Wordle answers.

What this means for a good opening word

Pull all the numbers together and a strong Wordle opener does four things at once. It covers the top three or four letters overall — E, A, R, O and T. It puts at least one vowel in the second or third slot, since that is where vowels concentrate. It uses one of the common closers, most often E or Y. And it avoids doubling letters, since a doubled letter wastes a slot for coverage on the first guess.

Words like CRANE, SLATE, STARE, TRACE and CRATE tick every box, which is why they perform well as first guesses across large samples of games. No single opener is mathematically best, and any word meeting those four rules is a reasonable choice. Test your own candidate in the coverage tool above — the higher the coverage number, the more information the guess reveals. A strong second guess uses letters the opener did not, so pairing STARE with CLOUD or POINT covers a wide slice of the alphabet in two moves.

Where the numbers come from

Every figure on this page is calculated from the full archive of 1,875 distinct answers across 1,897 total entries, spanning puzzles #0 to #1892. The underlying answer list is cross-checked daily against a second independent source, and the charts refresh automatically with each new puzzle, so a number here today is the same one your own count would produce from the archive.

The counts include all four split-answer days, since both answers on those days count as real answers. If a figure ever looks wrong, there is a way to report it, and any correction is made in the open with the change dated.