Wordle First Guess Evaluator
Test Word
Want to know how well any specific word performs as a first guess in Wordle? Enter it here and we'll let you know how it holds up.
Letters By Frequency
- E: in 1,056 answers (46%)
- A: in 909 answers (39%)
- R: in 837 answers (36%)
- O: in 673 answers (29%)
- T: in 667 answers (29%)
- L: in 648 answers (28%)
- I: in 647 answers (28%)
- S: in 618 answers (27%)
- N: in 550 answers (24%)
- U: in 457 answers (20%)
- C: in 448 answers (19%)
- Y: in 417 answers (18%)
- H: in 379 answers (16%)
- D: in 370 answers (16%)
- P: in 346 answers (15%)
- G: in 300 answers (13%)
- M: in 298 answers (13%)
- B: in 267 answers (12%)
- F: in 207 answers (9%)
- K: in 202 answers (9%)
- W: in 194 answers (8%)
- V: in 149 answers (6%)
- X: in 37 answers (2%)
- Z: in 35 answers (2%)
- Q: in 29 answers (1%)
- J: in 27 answers (1%)
Letters By Position
- 1: S (16%), C (9%), B (7%)
- 2: A (13%), O (12%), R (12%)
- 3: A (12%), I (11%), O (9%)
- 4: E (10%), N (7%), S (6%)
- 5: Y (15%), E (15%), T (10%)
First Guess: STARE
STARE has been a previous Wordle answer.
STARE is an allowed Wordle guess.
We compared STARE to 2,315 previous Wordle answers.
2,088 (90%) answers matched a letter in any position.
887 (38%) answers matched a letter in the correct position.
Letter Data
S is the 8th most common letter overall and is the 1st most popular first letter, appearing there 16% of the time.
T is the 5th most common letter overall and is the 10th most popular second letter, appearing there 3% of the time.
A is the 2nd most common letter overall and is the 1st most popular third letter, appearing there 12% of the time.
R is the 3rd most common letter overall and is the 7th most popular fourth letter, appearing there 6% of the time.
E is the 1st most common letter overall and is the 2nd most popular fifth letter, appearing there 15% of the time.