Best 2nd word in Wordle
- jbacoy3
- Feb 28, 2022
- 2 min read
Looking at articles on best first word in Wordle, I see that most of it are focused on the best 1st word in Wordle. How about best 2nd word?
This medium article[1] revealed the full wordle list. I downloaded the answers and save it in a file (wordle.txt) and started to look at the list and the answer is ROATE, ORATE or OATER. I'll stick with ROATE because it is easier to remember.
#If first word is ROATE
When the answer for the first word is revealed;
If contains R: SURLY
If starts in R: RIDGY
If contains O: CLONS
If 2nd letter is O: COULD
If contains A: INLAY
If 3rd letter is A: SLACK
If contains T: THINS
If 4th letter is T: UNITS
If contains E: LINES
If ends in E: GUILE
If nothing is correct: INCUS
If both R and O are yellow: CRONY
If both R and A are yellow: ACRID
If both R and T are yellow: SHIRT
If both R and E are yellow: DRIES
If both O and A are yellow: MACON
If both O and T are yellow: SHOUT
If both O and E are yellow: LENOS
If both A and T are yellow: SAINT
If both A and E are yellow: LANES
If both T and E are yellow: ISLET
ENJOY!!!
Try it out in achive wordle: https://www.devangthakkar.com/wordle_archive/
Nerd alert below!
#ref: https://medium.com/@owenyin/here-lies-wordle-2021-2027-full-answer-list-52017ee99e86
#copy and save all wordle in wordle.txt
from collections import Counter
with open("wordle.txt", "r") as file:
#read each wordle and remove newline(\n)
content = [line for line in file.read().splitlines()]
#concat all words in one string
contents = ''.join(content)
#get frequency count of all letters in wordle
res = Counter(contents)
#get only top 5 most common letters
res.most_common()[:5]
out: [('E', 1233), ('A', 979), ('R', 899), ('O', 754), ('T', 729)]
#Answer is ROATE!
#check for letter R and not O and not A and not T and not E
words_with_R = [n for n in content if 'R' in n and 'A' not in n and 'E' not in n and 'O' not in n and 'T' not in n]
print(Counter(''.join(words_with_R)).most_common()[:6])
#i tried to get top 5 but no word comes out of RIUYS so I change it to top 6
out: [('R', 71), ('I', 37), ('U', 34), ('Y', 22), ('S', 21), ('L', 21)]
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