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Wordle Best Starting Words is AROSE not ADIEU – Episode 2463

Posted on by Annie D

Everyone has their theories on the best starting word for the Wordle game. A lot of people suggest ADIEU. But when you look at the frequency of each letter in the 8000 possible words, a better start word has AROSE.

This video starts out with the most popular words. After that video wraps, a deep dive into the Dynamic Array Formulas that made all of this possible.

Table of Contents
(0:00) What’s the best Wordle Starting Word?
(0:48) Statistical analysis of most common letters
(1:20) A few alternate best starting words
(2:11) Scoring ADIEU and other common starting words
(2:49) Learn Excel on Retrieve
(3:10) Organist Nancy Faust plays
(3:21) Using UNIQUE with By_Col set to True
(3:50) VSTACK from Charles Williams
(3:55) Getting rid of 0 from empty cells using FILTER
(4:23) FIND to find an array of letters
(5:29) XLOOKUP of each letter in a word.

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MrExcel.comTue, January 25, 2022 3:16pm