The Daily Wordle Thread

spool32

Hey everyone it's the daily wordle! The place where we post inscrutable squares and try to not spoil one another while also talking about our guesses.

https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

Math, statistics, blind guesswork - tell us your strategy!

How to Share Your Wordle Grid
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If you close the results box or lose it, you can safely refresh the page, or return to the link, from the same browser and it'll give you the share button again.

Hard Mode
On the page settings, you can turn on Hard Mode, which requires you use successful guesses in your subsequent attempts. Hard mode does make it harder! Observe puzzle 200 (pg1) or 209 (pg19-20) for great examples of why.


Thread Meta / Etiquette
If you're posting your guess sequence, please put it in spoilers! Likewise comments on the day's puzzle.
Wordle rolls over at 00:00 local time, and those of you who live in the future have been very kindly double-spoilering your puzzles. The US players thank you for that!

W O R D L !

spool32

2-3 was a really strong attempt, but line four was 50/50 and I guessed wrong...

Wordle 200 5/6

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Tumin

My strategy is to wait for chanus to finish counting the words and coming up with a strategy

jungleroomx

Boom
Wordle 200 4/6

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Athenor

Throwing this out there early:

Many people on the forum are color-blind, and cannot easily differentiate yellow from green.

Even if you do it normal, consider flipping to color-blind mode before hitting the "Share" button so you get the blue/orange layout.

Chall

Wordle 200 4/6

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Captain Carrot

I got an excellent starter this time, but after the first round my followup was bad (including repeating a terminal letter without noticing it was marked wrong), so 6 tries total.

I've been liking 'stain' and 'orate' as openings, since common letters help narrow things down.

spool32

Honestly I had a shot at guessing this one in 3

Actual game 200 spoiler underneath:

syndalis

Captain Carrot wrote: »

I got an excellent starter this time, but after the first round my followup was bad (including repeating a terminal letter without noticing it was marked wrong), so 6 tries total.

I've been liking 'stain' and 'orate' as openings, since common letters help narrow things down.

TRULY
SMOKE/SPOKE depending on my mood.

Usually pull quite a few letters off those first two.

spool32

Captain Carrot wrote: »

I got an excellent starter this time, but after the first round my followup was bad (including repeating a terminal letter without noticing it was marked wrong), so 6 tries total.

I've been liking 'stain' and 'orate' as openings, since common letters help narrow things down.

I'm going to stick with with STERN or RENTS for that strong Wheel of Fortune opener. Until I get burned completely on it...

RandomEncounter

Wordle 200 3/6

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nexuscrawler

Sticking with BUTTS as my opener

Winky

You know what aren't the answer?

Fiver, Dimer, and Biker

honovere

Wordle 200 3/6

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I think I got lucky

BloodySloth

Wordle 200 3/6

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Definitely luck, but still, eat it

I haven't tried it yet, but I've been thinking about what starting word to go with and I might see how far "rages" gets me.

Edit: didn't even see there was a color blind option, good callout

Weaver

Wordle 200 4/6

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Aioua

Pulling in a bunch of analysis and discussion from chat:

Aioua wrote: »

ronya wrote: »

Aioua wrote: »

ok can't stop thinking on wordle

doing some analysis to try and improve my game using a list of all 5-letter scrabble words

there are 9330 words in this list, i wish i could be getting word frequency data but that seems a lot harder to come by for free
this should at least cover all likely wordle answers

top 5 most frequent letters are s, e, a, o, and r
followed by i, l, t, n, u, d, c, y

'AROSE UNLIT' would be quite the start

if you want to hit up consonants first (which might be a better choice as its easier to guess at vowels) you could do 'TIRLS' or 'ROTLS' to start, followed by 'CANDY' which gets you the first 8 consonants and a few vowels

however, true players play hard mode so you can't blast off two unrelated words, and you might want to shoot for start or end letters

s is by far the most common ending letter: it has 2900 to second-place y at 988, but I suspect these are mainly plurals and are unlikely as a wordle answer... I can't find a list of past answers to analyze. this is fine though, because s is also the most common starting letter at 1112 vs 708 for c (of all letters)

so if you want to quick check for s and y, while keeping the other top consonants, the ultimate starting guess is 'SURLY'
then just prioritize t, n, and d probably... 'ANTED' if you completely whiff on surly.

my count data:

total letter freq:
[('s', 4829), ('e', 4756), ('a', 4188), ('o', 3130), ('r', 3025), ('i', 2761), ('l', 2517), ('t', 2402), ('n', 2120), ('u', 1797), ('d', 1781), ('c', 1556), ('y', 1481), ('p', 1465), ('m', 1413), ('h', 1277), ('g', 1172), ('b', 1142), ('k', 1022), ('f', 816), ('w', 717), ('v', 505), ('z', 271), ('x', 221), ('j', 200), ('q', 86)]

starting letter:
[('s', 1112), ('c', 708), ('b', 647), ('p', 616), ('t', 602), ('a', 534), ('d', 484), ('m', 484), ('r', 453), ('g', 452), ('f', 447), ('l', 430), ('h', 360), ('w', 311), ('k', 238), ('n', 220), ('e', 210), ('o', 193), ('v', 178), ('j', 145), ('u', 132), ('i', 125), ('y', 112), ('z', 65), ('q', 59), ('x', 13)]

ending letter:
[('s', 2900), ('y', 988), ('e', 979), ('d', 608), ('r', 549), ('t', 507), ('a', 423), ('n', 392), ('l', 360), ('h', 276), ('o', 254), ('k', 196), ('i', 180), ('m', 134), ('p', 125), ('c', 101), ('g', 100), ('f', 58), ('x', 50), ('b', 41), ('w', 41), ('u', 39), ('z', 24), ('q', 3), ('v', 2)]

quoting because it's cool

hmm

I don't know that consonants-first makes sense; there's a lot more consonants than vowels, and getting position information earlier in Wordle is relatively more valuable (green much more than yellow). A lot of consonants to cover.

AUDIO, ADIEU, or OUTIE first and then freeforming the second word based on the response may be good

maybe RULES, LURES, LEIUS, ALOES, EUROS, or UREAS to quickly lock in an ending S, over AROSE (for that reason I am also leaning toward RENTS over STERN)

Data-wise I suppose the optimization is the speed of reducing the space when identifying if a letter exists or if a letter exists at that position

discussion including today's answer:

yeah I almost struck out because I spent the first three guesses fishing for consonants

SURLY
SATED
SCONE
SIEVE
SIEGE

though going vowel first also kind of sucks on this one, you pull out an I and an E and you're not any closer to finding SIEGE

anyways I biffed today's, that blue in space 2 was the same letter each time cause I wasn't paying attention

Wordle 200 4/6*

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Peccavi

Changing my Wordle strategy. Rather than starting with common letters, I'm trying to burn through all the weird ones first.

Tumin

Ive started using ACRES and I feel that it is pretty strong

The S last feels critical to me in eliminating a huge amount of words and the E also feels good (for -ED and -ER). Id probably prefer a different letter than C but having A in the mix is good and A as a first letter is fine, I am not sure I can do better without writing a program to tell me what to do.

If I could change the A to an O maybe that would give me better options than C, I could do AR- or OR-

I just wanna play ARIES ffs

ronya

greetings from the world of tomorrow

Wordle 201 4/6

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third row just scrambling for consonants

my previous was (ft. discussion on the terminal s)

ronya wrote: »

Aioua wrote: »

ronya wrote: »

Aioua wrote: »

ok can't stop thinking on wordle

doing some analysis to try and improve my game using a list of all 5-letter scrabble words

there are 9330 words in this list, i wish i could be getting word frequency data but that seems a lot harder to come by for free
this should at least cover all likely wordle answers

top 5 most frequent letters are s, e, a, o, and r
followed by i, l, t, n, u, d, c, y

'AROSE UNLIT' would be quite the start

if you want to hit up consonants first (which might be a better choice as its easier to guess at vowels) you could do 'TIRLS' or 'ROTLS' to start, followed by 'CANDY' which gets you the first 8 consonants and a few vowels

however, true players play hard mode so you can't blast off two unrelated words, and you might want to shoot for start or end letters

s is by far the most common ending letter: it has 2900 to second-place y at 988, but I suspect these are mainly plurals and are unlikely as a wordle answer... I can't find a list of past answers to analyze. this is fine though, because s is also the most common starting letter at 1112 vs 708 for c (of all letters)

so if you want to quick check for s and y, while keeping the other top consonants, the ultimate starting guess is 'SURLY'
then just prioritize t, n, and d probably... 'ANTED' if you completely whiff on surly.

my count data:

total letter freq:
[('s', 4829), ('e', 4756), ('a', 4188), ('o', 3130), ('r', 3025), ('i', 2761), ('l', 2517), ('t', 2402), ('n', 2120), ('u', 1797), ('d', 1781), ('c', 1556), ('y', 1481), ('p', 1465), ('m', 1413), ('h', 1277), ('g', 1172), ('b', 1142), ('k', 1022), ('f', 816), ('w', 717), ('v', 505), ('z', 271), ('x', 221), ('j', 200), ('q', 86)]

starting letter:
[('s', 1112), ('c', 708), ('b', 647), ('p', 616), ('t', 602), ('a', 534), ('d', 484), ('m', 484), ('r', 453), ('g', 452), ('f', 447), ('l', 430), ('h', 360), ('w', 311), ('k', 238), ('n', 220), ('e', 210), ('o', 193), ('v', 178), ('j', 145), ('u', 132), ('i', 125), ('y', 112), ('z', 65), ('q', 59), ('x', 13)]

ending letter:
[('s', 2900), ('y', 988), ('e', 979), ('d', 608), ('r', 549), ('t', 507), ('a', 423), ('n', 392), ('l', 360), ('h', 276), ('o', 254), ('k', 196), ('i', 180), ('m', 134), ('p', 125), ('c', 101), ('g', 100), ('f', 58), ('x', 50), ('b', 41), ('w', 41), ('u', 39), ('z', 24), ('q', 3), ('v', 2)]

quoting because it's cool

hmm

I don't know that consonants-first makes sense; there's a lot more consonants than vowels, and getting position information earlier in Wordle is relatively more valuable (green much more than yellow). A lot of consonants to cover.

AUDIO, ADIEU, or OUTIE first and then freeforming the second word based on the response may be good

maybe RULES, LURES, LEIUS, ALOES, EUROS, or UREAS to quickly lock in an ending S, over AROSE (for that reason I am also leaning toward RENTS over STERN)

Data-wise I suppose the optimization is the speed of reducing the space when identifying if a letter exists or if a letter exists at that position

discussion including today's answer:

yeah I almost struck out because I spent the first three guesses fishing for consonants

SURLY
SATED
SCONE
SIEVE
SIEGE

though going vowel first also kind of sucks on this one, you pull out an I and an E and you're not any closer to finding SIEGE

(mild spoilers for Wordle 200)

and, lo and behold, featuring even more guessing-the-consonant today:

Wordle 200 5/6

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spool32

ronya wrote: »

greetings from the world of tomorrow

Wordle 201 4/6

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third row just scrambling for consonants

my previous was (ft. discussion on the terminal s)

ronya wrote: »

Aioua wrote: »

ronya wrote: »

Aioua wrote: »

ok can't stop thinking on wordle

doing some analysis to try and improve my game using a list of all 5-letter scrabble words

there are 9330 words in this list, i wish i could be getting word frequency data but that seems a lot harder to come by for free
this should at least cover all likely wordle answers

top 5 most frequent letters are s, e, a, o, and r
followed by i, l, t, n, u, d, c, y

'AROSE UNLIT' would be quite the start

if you want to hit up consonants first (which might be a better choice as its easier to guess at vowels) you could do 'TIRLS' or 'ROTLS' to start, followed by 'CANDY' which gets you the first 8 consonants and a few vowels

however, true players play hard mode so you can't blast off two unrelated words, and you might want to shoot for start or end letters

s is by far the most common ending letter: it has 2900 to second-place y at 988, but I suspect these are mainly plurals and are unlikely as a wordle answer... I can't find a list of past answers to analyze. this is fine though, because s is also the most common starting letter at 1112 vs 708 for c (of all letters)

so if you want to quick check for s and y, while keeping the other top consonants, the ultimate starting guess is 'SURLY'
then just prioritize t, n, and d probably... 'ANTED' if you completely whiff on surly.

my count data:

total letter freq:
[('s', 4829), ('e', 4756), ('a', 4188), ('o', 3130), ('r', 3025), ('i', 2761), ('l', 2517), ('t', 2402), ('n', 2120), ('u', 1797), ('d', 1781), ('c', 1556), ('y', 1481), ('p', 1465), ('m', 1413), ('h', 1277), ('g', 1172), ('b', 1142), ('k', 1022), ('f', 816), ('w', 717), ('v', 505), ('z', 271), ('x', 221), ('j', 200), ('q', 86)]

starting letter:
[('s', 1112), ('c', 708), ('b', 647), ('p', 616), ('t', 602), ('a', 534), ('d', 484), ('m', 484), ('r', 453), ('g', 452), ('f', 447), ('l', 430), ('h', 360), ('w', 311), ('k', 238), ('n', 220), ('e', 210), ('o', 193), ('v', 178), ('j', 145), ('u', 132), ('i', 125), ('y', 112), ('z', 65), ('q', 59), ('x', 13)]

ending letter:
[('s', 2900), ('y', 988), ('e', 979), ('d', 608), ('r', 549), ('t', 507), ('a', 423), ('n', 392), ('l', 360), ('h', 276), ('o', 254), ('k', 196), ('i', 180), ('m', 134), ('p', 125), ('c', 101), ('g', 100), ('f', 58), ('x', 50), ('b', 41), ('w', 41), ('u', 39), ('z', 24), ('q', 3), ('v', 2)]

quoting because it's cool

hmm

I don't know that consonants-first makes sense; there's a lot more consonants than vowels, and getting position information earlier in Wordle is relatively more valuable (green much more than yellow). A lot of consonants to cover.

AUDIO, ADIEU, or OUTIE first and then freeforming the second word based on the response may be good

maybe RULES, LURES, LEIUS, ALOES, EUROS, or UREAS to quickly lock in an ending S, over AROSE (for that reason I am also leaning toward RENTS over STERN)

Data-wise I suppose the optimization is the speed of reducing the space when identifying if a letter exists or if a letter exists at that position

discussion including today's answer:

yeah I almost struck out because I spent the first three guesses fishing for consonants

SURLY
SATED
SCONE
SIEVE
SIEGE

though going vowel first also kind of sucks on this one, you pull out an I and an E and you're not any closer to finding SIEGE

(mild spoilers for Wordle 200)

and, lo and behold, featuring even more guessing-the-consonant today:

Wordle 200 5/6

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Wordle 200

consonant guessing
L?
M?
G?!?! fk u wordle

ronya

spool32 wrote: »

ronya wrote: »

greetings from the world of tomorrow

Wordle 201 4/6

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third row just scrambling for consonants

my previous was (ft. discussion on the terminal s)

ronya wrote: »

Aioua wrote: »

ronya wrote: »

Aioua wrote: »

ok can't stop thinking on wordle

doing some analysis to try and improve my game using a list of all 5-letter scrabble words

there are 9330 words in this list, i wish i could be getting word frequency data but that seems a lot harder to come by for free
this should at least cover all likely wordle answers

top 5 most frequent letters are s, e, a, o, and r
followed by i, l, t, n, u, d, c, y

'AROSE UNLIT' would be quite the start

if you want to hit up consonants first (which might be a better choice as its easier to guess at vowels) you could do 'TIRLS' or 'ROTLS' to start, followed by 'CANDY' which gets you the first 8 consonants and a few vowels

however, true players play hard mode so you can't blast off two unrelated words, and you might want to shoot for start or end letters

s is by far the most common ending letter: it has 2900 to second-place y at 988, but I suspect these are mainly plurals and are unlikely as a wordle answer... I can't find a list of past answers to analyze. this is fine though, because s is also the most common starting letter at 1112 vs 708 for c (of all letters)

so if you want to quick check for s and y, while keeping the other top consonants, the ultimate starting guess is 'SURLY'
then just prioritize t, n, and d probably... 'ANTED' if you completely whiff on surly.

my count data:

total letter freq:
[('s', 4829), ('e', 4756), ('a', 4188), ('o', 3130), ('r', 3025), ('i', 2761), ('l', 2517), ('t', 2402), ('n', 2120), ('u', 1797), ('d', 1781), ('c', 1556), ('y', 1481), ('p', 1465), ('m', 1413), ('h', 1277), ('g', 1172), ('b', 1142), ('k', 1022), ('f', 816), ('w', 717), ('v', 505), ('z', 271), ('x', 221), ('j', 200), ('q', 86)]

starting letter:
[('s', 1112), ('c', 708), ('b', 647), ('p', 616), ('t', 602), ('a', 534), ('d', 484), ('m', 484), ('r', 453), ('g', 452), ('f', 447), ('l', 430), ('h', 360), ('w', 311), ('k', 238), ('n', 220), ('e', 210), ('o', 193), ('v', 178), ('j', 145), ('u', 132), ('i', 125), ('y', 112), ('z', 65), ('q', 59), ('x', 13)]

ending letter:
[('s', 2900), ('y', 988), ('e', 979), ('d', 608), ('r', 549), ('t', 507), ('a', 423), ('n', 392), ('l', 360), ('h', 276), ('o', 254), ('k', 196), ('i', 180), ('m', 134), ('p', 125), ('c', 101), ('g', 100), ('f', 58), ('x', 50), ('b', 41), ('w', 41), ('u', 39), ('z', 24), ('q', 3), ('v', 2)]

quoting because it's cool

hmm

I don't know that consonants-first makes sense; there's a lot more consonants than vowels, and getting position information earlier in Wordle is relatively more valuable (green much more than yellow). A lot of consonants to cover.

AUDIO, ADIEU, or OUTIE first and then freeforming the second word based on the response may be good

maybe RULES, LURES, LEIUS, ALOES, EUROS, or UREAS to quickly lock in an ending S, over AROSE (for that reason I am also leaning toward RENTS over STERN)

Data-wise I suppose the optimization is the speed of reducing the space when identifying if a letter exists or if a letter exists at that position

discussion including today's answer:

yeah I almost struck out because I spent the first three guesses fishing for consonants

SURLY
SATED
SCONE
SIEVE
SIEGE

though going vowel first also kind of sucks on this one, you pull out an I and an E and you're not any closer to finding SIEGE

(mild spoilers for Wordle 200)

and, lo and behold, featuring even more guessing-the-consonant today:

Wordle 200 5/6

🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜
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🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩
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Wordle 200

consonant guessing
L?
M?
G?!?! fk u wordle

feeling coronvironically-minded, and mindful of the tricksy double letters, I put T first

was really staggered when it failed and I contemplated just how many letters could be in there

Gilgaron

My kids are going to love this game, they already love the same concept with 'guess the number'... they call it ace jumble zilch.

mittens

I had a quiet morning so I did some crunching on 8900+ Scrabble-legal five letter words and then put together a table showing their frequency in the first through fifth spot on the board. I think from my analysis the best first word to play (hoping for a direct hit on letters) is CORES. That being said, my strategy over the last week has been to try to eliminate all vowels and as many "wheel of fortune" consonants, but maybe I'll poke around with my list when I try to solve today's puzzle. Also, I find myself self-imposing Hard Mode even though I have the option turned off and I have no idea why.





Also for reference, the most common bigrams (2 letter pairs) in the English language are the following in descending order (caveat: this is for all words, not just 5 letter words): th, he, in, en, nt, re, er, an, ti, es, on, at, se, nd, or, ar, al, te, co, de, to, ra, et, ed, it, sa, em, ro.

edit: fixed some conditional formatting to only highlight top 5 hits

Bursar

Wordle 200 4/6

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I go with STARE or RATES for the first word, as it covers the most common letters. After guess 2 I got lucky, because there's at least one more word it could have been. At that point it's less "figure out the word" as it is "consider how devious the designers are feeling right now."

Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud

Oh noooo
Wordle 200 X/6

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Yilias

m!ttens wrote: »

I think from my analysis the best first word to play (hoping for a direct hit on letters) is CORES.

If A is ranked above O, wouldn't it be CARES?

I didn't realize S was more common than vowels are. AROSE would hit the top 5 letters but you're more likely to get yellows than greens, hmm.

Tumin

SEARS // SOARS looks really good for hitting greens

TEARS probably better thoug

That 4th position E though

Ima be a BRIES man

Tumin

ugh editing hard

Evil Multifarious

spool32 wrote: »

Honestly I had a shot at guessing this one in 3

Actual game 200 spoiler underneath:

Spool your third guess made me laugh out loud

spool32

Evil Multifarious wrote: »

spool32 wrote: »

Honestly I had a shot at guessing this one in 3

Actual game 200 spoiler underneath:

Spool your third guess made me laugh out loud

I really wanted to use that letter apparently? WoF got me slippin

ArbitraryDescriptor

Peccavi wrote: »

Changing my Wordle strategy. Rather than starting with common letters, I'm trying to burn through all the weird ones first.

I was trying to come up with 5 words that test all the letters then making a hail mary for #6, maybe this is the key?

Squib
Xylem
Chord
Gnaws
...Ftzpj?

Alas.

I'm going to try hard mode tomorrow, I think it might have actually saved me a guess or two today.

Wordle 200 5/6

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If I was forced to play with the accumulated hits instead of ruling out as much as possible, I would have been forced on to a much more efficient path.

mittens

Yilias wrote: »

m!ttens wrote: »

I think from my analysis the best first word to play (hoping for a direct hit on letters) is CORES.

If A is ranked above O, wouldn't it be CARES?

I didn't realize S was more common than vowels are. AROSE would hit the top 5 letters but you're more likely to get yellows than greens, hmm.

Oh yeah, I'm dumb. CARES is probably the meta opener for direct hits. If you don't mind guessing double letters on your first word, SALES is pretty good too (the L in the 3 spot is ranked #6 and if an L is present in the word it is pretty likely to be in that spot) and the rest are all the number one occurrence.

Another insight, the 2nd letter is very frequently going to be a vowel (70% of the time), and if it isn't it'll most likely be an R.

Etiowsa

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spool32

Etiowsa wrote: »

I'm kinda mad I know this exists now. Now I'm contractually obligated to do this every day.

You're welcome and also post your squares for 200 lololol

TTODewback

now you can never not be doing it

Tumin

The thing about R second is that it tells you to guess a vowel for first letter and probably a vowel for third, youre trying to shrink the solution space as fast as possible, not necessarily find letters. Reducing the span of possibilities of a letter from 26 to 5 is a lot better than knowing a consonant exists somewhere in the word, I think, vowel positions are key.

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syndalis

Tumin wrote: »

The thing about R second is that it tells you to guess a vowel for first letter and probably a vowel for third, youre trying to shrink the solution space as fast as possible, not necessarily find letters. Reducing the span of possibilities of a letter from 26 to 5 is a lot better than knowing a consonant exists somewhere in the word, I think, vowel positions are key.

Tryst
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… like, lots of Xr combos here where the opener is a consonant.

Tcheldor

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