Wordle letter frequency

The most common letter in Wordle answers is E, in 1,056 of 2,315 words.

Counts for all five positions are below.

Counts come from the 2,315 words in Wordle's original answer list. "Words containing" counts each word once, even if the letter repeats.

Letter	Words containing	Share	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
E	1,056	45.6%	72	242	177	318	424
A	909	39.3%	141	304	307	163	64
R	837	36.2%	105	267	163	152	212
O	673	29.1%	41	279	244	132	58
T	667	28.8%	149	77	111	139	253
L	648	28.0%	88	201	112	162	156
I	647	27.9%	34	202	266	158	11
S	618	26.7%	366	16	80	171	36
N	550	23.8%	37	87	139	182	130
U	457	19.7%	33	186	165	82	1
C	448	19.4%	198	40	56	152	31
Y	417	18.0%	6	23	29	3	364
H	379	16.4%	69	144	9	28	139
D	370	16.0%	111	20	75	69	118
P	346	14.9%	142	61	58	50	56
G	300	13.0%	115	12	67	76	41
M	298	12.9%	107	38	61	68	42
B	267	11.5%	173	16	57	24	11
F	207	8.9%	136	8	25	35	26
K	202	8.7%	20	10	12	55	113
W	194	8.4%	83	44	26	25	17
V	149	6.4%	43	15	49	46	0
X	37	1.6%	0	14	12	3	8
Z	35	1.5%	3	2	11	20	4
Q	29	1.3%	23	5	1	0	0
J	27	1.2%	20	2	3	2	0

Vowels carry the second and third positions, S is by far the most common first and last letter, and E, A and R show up in more than a third of the answers each. Pick guesses that use these letters first and the rest of the alphabet only when you need to break a tie.

Wordle letter frequency

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