What’s your wordle starting word?

[frankie001]

Mine is ankle. No idea why, I’m sure there are better ones!

Train

Treat or scout depending on my mood

@buttcrackmcheese

Mine is never the same word! Didn't think of using the same one. Haha

Using the same one is boring

house and paint

Coast or Mauve.

Taser

Audio.

Tread

I didn't know it was a thing to start with the same word every time!
Today's was really difficult.

@Deadringer

Pears. My dd is good at wordle but she does it differently to me. She puts in her first word, then on the second line she puts in another word, not using any of the letters that she got right in the first one iykwim, thereby maximising the letters she finds. She nearly always gets it on the 3rd go, while my average is 4.

I do the same as your daughter. I use riots then clean which covers the ten most common letters. If I've really got no idea after that then I'll try bumpy which then covers all the possible vowels sounds. Since it's American they use 'u' a lot less than us and u is a far less common vowel than the other four so words with u aren't always useful (appreciate the irony of saying that today).

There is a setting to make it harder by forcing you to reuse correct letters but the only time I've seen people fail is when they do that (we've all seen the attempts where people have got 3 or 4 greens in their second attempt then have worked through alternatives only eliminating 1 or 2 letters at a time and not getting the correct word after 6 attempts). Eliminating options by using completely different words is a more efficient strategy. When I've tried my two different word strategy in the archive I usually get words in 3 attempts.

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Was told to use a word with lots of vowels
Going to change it now to ADIEU! Thanks mumsnet :)

Early

I do Later, followed by Sound if nothing comes up.

Adieu or arose

I use a lot of different starting words, but aim for words with two vowels and a couple of two common(ish) consonants... stuff like
Train, plate, break, heart, etc ... whatever I can think of at the time.

Changes daily; vowels is key
Steak: stear, sweat; purge; riots; games, storm, poems; whisp; party, spear, panic, petal, prose, orbit

I try to use a different one each day and also aim to cover all the vowels in the first two words. So unite/roads for example.

Oiled
Like many on here, I just used it at first and now it's stuck.

Opera or stare.

Audio

Stare, ouija, adieu or arise. Or some random word I like the sound of, for a change, depending on the day.

Quest

Ouija

Raise or Roast

Stare, followed by boing if no matches!