"Wordle," a strangely compelling word game (Part 3)

[kaylasdad99]

Wordle 1,599 3/6

BUYER
TOQUE
VENUE

[kaylasdad99]

@Shoeless

@Gordon_G

It was only a two weeks ago that Rebo told me that most plurals and -s verb inflections were never used. Was/Is that published as part of Wordle instructions? Is it wrong to use that knowledge?

I didn’t see anything in Wordle’s “How to play” or “Tips and Tricks” pages that mention this specifically. But it seems to be almost a universal rule of word games with a fixed size or minimum length that words ending in S are not used. (I’m not sure that even needs to be spoilered, it’s so common.) If you play Spelling Bee, you’ll notice that you rarely see one there.

It’s really not so much a rule as a guideline, to keep constructors from being lazy (IMHO). And since players eventually notice that constructors tend to follow it, they get wise.

[Rebo]

Wordle 1,599 3/6*

SNIDE
VENGE
What the hell is VENGE? I meant to type
VENUE, dammit.

[RTFirefly]

Wordle 1599 4/6

SLANT
CHORE
GIMPY
VENUE

[RTFirefly]

A frequency table for the first 1600 games of Wordle (0-1599), showing the number of times each letter of the alphabet has appeared in solutions so far, spoilered just in case there are players who’d rather not see it. No big surprises, really.

E	869
A	704
R	627
O	544
T	536
L	495
I	450
S	433
N	405
C	322
U	304
H	288
D	272
Y	257
P	244
M	216
G	213
B	186
F	159
K	141
W	129
V	106
X	31
Z	28
Q	22
J	19

[SunUp]

Yesterday’s:

Wordle 1,598 3/6* 11/3/2025

RABID → Slow start, but I can do a very popular first word second here
SLATE → So I pretty much have to have a leading A, and when I look at A???E I see nothing for several minutes, and then it hits me
AWOKE

Did this one on my phone. Scoredle takes the same second guess, but then goes off into the weeds when it seems like (to me) there’s but one nonbogus word left, save for a few Latinate plurals. It does finish with a par.

Today’s:

Wordle 1,599 4/6* 11/4/2025

AWOKE → The three most common vowels makes this a not-bad starting word, though ATONE might be preferred. Taking three of those missing WoFcons makes me try
TRINE → So that’s something. I played around with ways to get another E and a U in there and via trial and error hit on
NEUME → So, moving the U and N into their proper places gives us ?ENUE which means
VENUE

Despite my rather dubious tactics on the third guess, I’m happy with my par. (I have no shame) Scoredle has a second guess that’s IMHO better than mine, but it makes no progress with its next two guesses, settling for a bogey after it misses a 50-50 putt for par.

[MrDibble]

Wordle 1,600 3/6

AUDIO
POESY
SHORT

[psychobunny]

Wordle 1,600 2/6

RATIO
SHORT

A little birthday luck

[SuntanLotion]

Wordle 1,600 3/6

[Bullitt]

Wordle 1,600 4/6 — Wed 05 Nov 2025-11-05




STEAK
COLIN — possibles are shoot short shout sport spout; but previous Wordles were shout sport spout; so remaining possibles are shoot short
SHOOT
SHORT

[SuntanLotion]

Had I used my popular starter I would’ve had it in 1.
Kicking myself.

[chela]

Wordle 1,600 3/6*

Sitar
Strut
Short

[pjd]

Wordle 1,600 2/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ \end{aligned}

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[Wheelz]

Wordle 1,600 4/6

FIBER
ROAST
SPORT
SHORT

A good “first word second,” as SunUp would say, saved me the par. Interestingly, this would have been a tap-in birdie if I were a used-word devotee. I actually remembered SNORT having appeared, so I avoided that, thinking I had a 50/50 shot at three. Turns out SPORT has been used as well.

[Shoeless]

Wordle 1,600 5/6

STEAM
POINT
SCOUT
SHOOT
SHORT

[Gordon_G]

Wordle 1,600 3/6

SLATE
CHOIR
SHORT
After #1 I found nine not-yet-used words. None seemed to be a good “sleuth”
so I asked Choir. I think I’ve used that word before, but I carefully selected it
here: Of the nine fitting words, only Stunt/Stunk would be left unresolved.

[Rebo]

Wordle 1,600 3/6*

SNIDE
SCALY
SHORT

[MacDoc]

Damn back to back unassisted eagles!!

Wordle 1,601 2/6

no Ai

[BobLibDem]

Wordle 1,600 3/6

HEART
SHIRT (no A so it couldn’t be SHART)
SHORT

[SunUp]

Wordle 1,600 4/6* 11/5/2025

VENUE → Whiff. A good first word second here is
ROAST → Not bad. A little Jumble work gives us S?ORT, SNORT is out (as is, likely, SKORT) so I’ll try
SPORT → Came up a bit
SHORT

H/T @Wheelz, to note that great minds think very alike today. Scoredle has a different (but anagrammatically the same) second word, and also misses the putt for birdie (and apparently the other word I eliminated after two is a valid Wordle word, though I think not a Wordle solution).