Wordle statistics · 1,968 puzzles

Every Wordle Answer, Counted

These figures are computed from the complete run of answers — puzzle #0 on June 19, 2021 through puzzle #1967 onNovember 7, 2026 — taken from the game's own published data. They update as new answers join the archive.

1,968Answers analysed

EMost common letter (10.8% of all letters)

31%Answers with a repeated letter

1.79Average vowels per answer

Letter frequency across all answers

Counted over all 9,840 letters in the archive. This is the table behind every "best starting word" debate: E stands alone at the top, followed by A and R — which is why openers built from those letters reveal so much (see the starting words guide).

E10.8%

A8.5%

R7.6%

O6.7%

T6.5%

L6.2%

I5.7%

S5.6%

N5.0%

C4.1%

U4.0%

H3.5%

D3.4%

Y3.3%

P3.1%

M2.8%

G2.7%

B2.4%

F2.0%

K1.8%

W1.6%

V1.4%

Z0.4%

X0.3%

Q0.3%

J0.2%

First letters

S opens more answers than any other letter by a wide margin —294 of 1,968 puzzles (14.9%).

First letter	Answers	Share
S	294	14.9%
C	170	8.6%
B	148	7.5%
T	130	6.6%
A	125	6.4%
P	122	6.2%
F	107	5.4%
G	105	5.3%
M	97	4.9%
D	92	4.7%

The most common letter in each position

Position 1

S14.9%

C8.6%

B7.5%

T6.6%

A6.4%

Position 2

O12.6%

A12.3%

R11.8%

E10.5%

L8.7%

Position 3

A14.1%

O11.2%

I11.0%

E7.6%

U7.3%

Position 4

E13.2%

N7.8%

S7.4%

I7.4%

A7.0%

Position 5

E19.8%

Y14.2%

T11.1%

R8.5%

L7.0%

Position matters in Wordle: a letter can be common overall yet rare in the slot you are testing. E, for instance, lives at the end of words far more often than at the start.

Difficulty distribution

Rated with this site's letter-pattern score (repeated letters, uncommon letters and vowel count — the same rating shown on today's difficulty page):

Easy715 · 36.3%

Moderate972 · 49.4%

Hard281 · 14.3%

The five highest-rated answers so far:

Puzzle	Date	Answer	Rating
#712	June 1, 2023	JAZZY	10/10
#539	December 10, 2022	KNOCK	9/10
#844	October 11, 2023	SKUNK	9/10
#1306	January 15, 2025	KNACK	9/10
#1350	February 28, 2025	FUZZY	9/10

Repeated letters and vowels

613 of the 1,968 answers —31.1% — contain a repeated letter, which is why "no doubles" thinking ends so many streaks. The average answer holds1.79 vowels, and the most vowel-rich answer so far is puzzle #802 (August 30, 2023) with4 vowels.

Method: every figure on this page is computed directly from the archive of published answers, with no sampling and no estimates. The difficulty rating is this site's own measure and is labelled as such wherever it appears.