Rephrase and rearrange the whole content into a news article. I want you to respond only in language English. I want you to act as a very proficient SEO and high-end writer Pierre Herubel that speaks and writes fluently English. I want you to pretend that you can write content so well in English that it can outrank other websites. Make sure there is zero plagiarism.: Happy 1,000th birthday, Wordle! Yes, the simple and oh-so-addictive word game that took the world by storm in early 2022 has now reached another landmark – and that’s given me the perfect excuse to analyze every game so far in a hunt for patterns.You might wonder why that’s helpful, but trust me – it really, really is. That’s because Wordle is as much a game about probability as it is about words. Sure, you can ignore all that and just use your mental lexicography to solve it each day, but doing so will put you at a disadvantage.Hang on – is it really 1,000?I should point out that the only slight snag to all this is that really Wordle is now 1,001 games old, not 1,000. That’s because its first puzzle was #0, rather #1. But we’ll skip over that fact, because it would have been weird to be celebrating at #999.How? Well, as a simple example consider your start word. Most regular Wordlers have one, and the reason why some are better than others is that some letters are far more common than others. The same applies to many other aspects of the game, so if your aim is to solve Wordle each day and safeguard your streak, this kind of info can give you an advantage.So, read on and I’ll tell you what you need to know about Wordle’s many patterns, and what I’ve learned from looking at the first 1,000 games.Your Wordle expertYour Wordle expertMarc McLarenGlobal Editor in ChiefMarc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief and has been playing Wordle for more than two years. He’s authored dozens of articles on the game for TechRadar and its sister site Tom’s Guide, his Wordle streak has reached the 500 mark long ago (and is now in the 800s) and he’ll be inconsolable if he loses it. Yes, he takes it all too seriously.More Wordle 1,000 storiesNumber- and letter-crunching timeI started playing Wordle in December 2021, and soon after it went viral I downloaded all of the answers from the game’s official website. This was before the New York Times bought Wordle, and the answers were freely available to anyone with a web browser and a rudimentary idea of how to look at the site’s source code.Once I’d grabbed the list of all 2,000+ answers I set about analyzing them – though without actually looking at the solutions themselves, of course, because that would be cheating. (Honestly, I did it all via formulae to give me an overview of the data, and never looked at the answer list itself for more than a few seconds while I was setting it up. Promise!)I soon realized that there was a huge amount of insight to be gleaned from the data. For instance, I could see that E was the most common letter in the game overall, but that S was far more likely to be the first letter in a solution, and A more likely to be second.The deeper I dug, the more I learned, so I began using this info to inform my daily NYT Wordle today column. What follows is a combination of everything I found then, and what we can infer from the first 1,000 games.Note: the tables below can all be sorted by column, so you can easily see what’s top (or bottom) in any metric. Simply click the column to organize it. Some tables also have multiple screens, which you can scroll through by clicking the arrows below.Most common Wordle lettersMost common Wordle letters overallLet’s start with the first thing I looked at once I downloaded the Wordle data: how common each letter is.This is vital information, because it could guide everything from your choice of start word to whether you play HEAVE or WEAVE when presented with a 50/50 at a late stage.The table below details how likely each letter is to appear in a Wordle answer. I’ve split the data into two categories: first, how many games each letter features in and second, how many times each letter appears in total. Why the need for two figures? Well, some letters are repeated more than others; this doesn’t make much difference to the overall rankings, but you can see it have an effect here and there. For instance, look at L and I below: one occurs in more individual games, the other appears more times in total.As you’d imagine, some letters are far more likely to appear than others. At the top end, E features a massive 1,230 times across Wordle’s original 2,309 answers, which means that 10% of all letters in the game are an E. It features in 45% of all games. Seriously, put an E in your opener right away. Next in line are A, R, O, T, L, I and S, and the keen-eyed among you will notice that those letters also feature in many of the best Wordle start words.At the bottom, meanwhile, four letters stand out: J, X, Q and Z. This quartet only appear 133 in total, which is fewer than the number for any other individual letter. Yes, really – there are more Vs than there are Js, Xs, Qs and Zs combined. Conclusion: don’t play one of them unless you have to.Most common Wordle letters in the first 1,000 gamesCrunching the numbers for the 1,001 games so far tells a very similar story – for instance, the top eight letters are the same as the top eight overall (above).I’ve added another couple of columns here, though: ‘Vs games’ and ‘Vs appearances’. These show the percentage difference versus what you would have expected for each letter – for instance T has appeared in 2.8% more games than you’d have expected so far, whereas S has appeared in 2.8% fewer.Really, though, there’s not a lot in it. The most common letters overall have been the most common letters so far, exactly as you’d expect.Most common Wordle letters by positionMost common Wordle letters by position overallOf course, some letters are more common in some positions within an answer than others. The table below shows the number of appearances each letter makes in each of Wordle’s five slots, and there’s a lot of info to be gained from it.S, for instance, starts 365 of Wordle’s original 2,309 solutions, but ends only 36. So, if you end up with a yellow S in the middle of a word, it’s far more likely to turn green if you put it at the start. Y is almost the exact opposite, starting a mere six answers, but ending 364.Pro tip: I find column three to be arguably the most useful of all. Starting and ending letters are usually quite easy to find, but it’s the second letter that often determines the structure of a word. If there’s an L there, for instance, you know two things right away: one, that only a vowel or a few consonants (P, G, F, S, B, C) can go before it, and two – it will definitely be followed by vowel if it wasn’t preceded by one.Most common Wordle letters by position in the first 1,000 gamesI ran the numbers for the 1,001 games so far, too, but again there’s not a lot of movement here. Order the first column by frequency, for instance, and you’ll see that S, C and B are still the top three most common starting letters. That said, fourth in that list was A, showing that it’s appeared more often than you’d expect at the start of an answer (it’s only sixth in the overall rankings above).Most common Wordle combinationsMost common Wordle combinations overallCombinations play a huge role in Wordle, because some letters sit more easily next to others. So, if you find one of them, it may well give you good information about what the other one is.This is a deep rabbit hole to venture down, because there are so many possible combos. For the first two letters alone, there are 214 different pairings, and that…
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