AIBU to ask what your Wordl started word is?

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Just that! I had such a great run and now I seem to have hit a wall. Do you use the same one every time? Do you ever use pen and paper alongside? It's cheeky I know I'm being unreasonable I'm also just curious!

Also ADIEU. I think back when wordle began it was touted as a strong starter word. Seems a lot of us are using it. Second word varies depending on result of first but will always contain O. I think getting the vowels is the key. I'm on an 86 day streak. Previous best streak was 109. It was a dark day when I lost that.

I focus on lowest scrabble points to pick up most commonly used letters.

So tend to start with TEARS and then might go for DOING if tears was a blank.

Mine is adieu then short

I vary it as long as I cover all vowels plus y in the first two guesses.

Usually random, based on the first five letter words I hear spoken on the Today programme when I wake up.
Wordle is also the first thing shared with a few family members and friends every day. It's our check in. Love Wordle so much. And Strands and less so Connections which is excellent but sometimes very frustrating!

Raise
Pouty

Clears out all the vowels plus y (substitute vowel) and some of the most frequently used consonants.

HOUSE then PLAIT (depending on what comes up from HOUSE)

I used to start with STARE but it was the word recently so I'm trying different things now.

MOUSE followed by THING if there is nothing from the first word. It is a
a tortoise rather than hare word (if you want the latter go for STARE or LATER) but it’s served me well.

I currently have a streak of 512. It would be higher but I left my phone in a taxi 513 days ago 😂

just FYI if you use MOUSE it has been the answer so you’ll never get it in one but I just can’t bring myself to change it now!!

I do Quordle first then use whichever of those 4 words has the most vowels for that day's Wordle starting word

Crane then toils/pilot/spilt. I can never decide between getting the correct position of letters and ruling out other letters.

Just moved from adieu to stare and my average has dropped from 4 to 3 over the last two weeks

Mine has always been stare. It finally came up about a month ago!

STEAD

Raise, then touch

abuse, then point.

I used to start with stare too, until I got it in one. Now I use tears - same letters, different order. Stare must have been a common first word as I saw quite a few people getting it in one that day.

My first word is random and often not at all strategic.

I start with Raise and if no success my second word is always Tough.

HEARS, then POINT, then DUCKY. That gets 15 different letters and all vowels plus y out of the way, if I haven't hit many/enough correct letters by then I try FLAME or BLAME next for another 3 different letters.

I use 'teach'. I tried adieu for a while but it wasn't working for me. I started using 'cheat' instead, then I swapped it to 'teach'. All the same letters, but a nicer word.

I don't have one. I do the NYT Mini crossword and then use a word from there - that's a personal rule, makes it more challenging.

IRATE

STAND
CHOIR
PLUME

Unless it's worth having a guess somewhere in between those