Letter Frequency in Wordle Answers
Computed from 2,325 official Wordle answers.
Knowing which letters appear most often is the foundation of good Wordle strategy. Below is the exact distribution across every answer the game has used or will use, both overall and by position.
Overall letter frequency
Each bar shows how many answers contain that letter at least once.
e
1058 (46%)
a
915 (39%)
r
838 (36%)
o
676 (29%)
t
671 (29%)
i
651 (28%)
l
649 (28%)
s
625 (27%)
n
551 (24%)
u
463 (20%)
c
446 (19%)
y
417 (18%)
h
377 (16%)
d
373 (16%)
p
348 (15%)
g
301 (13%)
m
300 (13%)
b
268 (12%)
f
208 (9%)
k
203 (9%)
w
193 (8%)
v
149 (6%)
x
37 (2%)
z
36 (2%)
q
30 (1%)
j
27 (1%)
Most common letter by position
Letters cluster in specific positions. The first letter is rarely a vowel; the third often is. Knowing this changes how you weight each tile.
1st letter
- s369
- c198
- b175
- t149
- p143
- a141
2nd letter
- a307
- o280
- r269
- e242
- i202
- l200
3rd letter
- a310
- i268
- o244
- e178
- u167
- r163
4th letter
- e319
- n183
- s172
- a163
- l163
- i160
5th letter
- e425
- y365
- t255
- r213
- l155
- h137
How to use this
- Build openers from the top 5–7 letters overall — that's the highest information per guess.
- When you've used your openers and still have unknowns, weight your third guess toward letters that are common in the position you haven't yet pinned down.
- Avoid burning a guess on letters in the bottom 10 of frequency unless you have specific reason to test them.