If you're not obsessed with Wordle, chances are you know someone who probably is. It's the latest internet sensation that pits the user against the English language, tasked with guessing a five-letter word with no hints, clues, or starting points.
You're essentially left to your own devices, and many have pondered just what the ideal word to being your game with is. Well, one PhD student may have answered that question for all of us.
A PhD student on TikTok named Zeb developed a computer program to find the absolute best word to start with on Worlde, with his finding concluding that it is "IRATE."
Apparently, "irate" uses the most letters that appear the most frequently in English, according to Zeb via The Philadelphia Inquirer.
According to Zeb, an initial guess of "irate" leaves the player with 64 possible guesses.
Happy Wordling!
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