Wordle, I love you, and I hate you. I’ve fallen into a groove of guessing the same words over and over when I play Wordle. I like to start with TRAIN, then move on to CLOSE, then DUMPY and sometimes after that, the weird word WHELK. I picked these words strategically because I know which letters are more popular than others.
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In order to get the absolute best starter words, you should know which letters turn up the most in English. I reached out to the big brains at the Oxford English Dictionary — you know, the whopping, multi-volume dictionary that no one actually owns, but that your school librarian adored. An OED representative sent me a list in which staff analyzed all of the
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