Wordle skill level rating of opening words

As an opening word, slate is referred to by the bot as the word of a “Wordle genius” and is given a skill level of 99. The word, stale, is given a skill level rating of 97. Same letters, different order. Does this mean that there are more words in the Wordle dictionary that end with te than with le?

Or sl rather than st, etc.

Stale my starting word until it was the actual answer so I changed in an effort to some day get a second 1st quess.