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Wordle Letter Frequency Tool
Letter frequency is one of the simplest tools you can use to reason about Wordle without any solver at all: some letters simply appear far more often than others in common 5-letter English words, and some letters favor specific positions within a word.
This analyzer breaks down letter frequency across the local 5-letter word list, both overall and by position, so you can see for yourself which letters are worth prioritizing in an opening guess versus which are rare enough to save for later.
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Frequency by position, not just overall
A letter's overall frequency doesn't tell the whole story — position matters too. For instance, S is extremely common as the first letter of 5-letter words (think SLATE, STARE, SNAKE) but far less common as the last letter, since plural forms usually get filtered out of typical Wordle answer lists. Meanwhile, E shows up disproportionately often as the final letter of 5-letter words.
Common starting and ending letters
Words beginning with S, C, B, T, and P are especially common in English, which is part of why so many popular Wordle openers start with one of those letters. On the other end, words frequently end in E, S, Y, T, and N — noticing this pattern can help you weight later guesses toward likely endings once you've ruled a few letters out.
Using frequency to choose your next guess
Once you've locked in a few clues, use the frequency breakdown to prioritize your remaining guesses toward letters that are statistically more likely to appear, rather than defaulting to rare letters like Q, X, J, or Z unless a clue has already pointed you toward one of them specifically.
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