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Guides to word games and puzzles, worked out from our own dictionary of 168,000 words.
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The Best Wordle Starting Words, Tested Against Every Answer
We scored nearly 4,000 opening words by how many possible answers each one leaves. IRATE and RAISE come out on top, and the popular vowel-heavy openers do surprisingly badly.
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The Letters That Make the Most Words: English's Biggest Anagram Families
Five letters, A E P R S, can be arranged into 12 different words. We searched our 168,000-word dictionary for the letter sets with the most anagrams.
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Every Two-Letter Word, and the Six Worth Nine Points
All 96 two-letter words in our word-game dictionary, which ones score the most, and how to use them to squeeze points out of a crowded board.
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Words With Q but No U: All 21 of Them
Drew a Q without a U? These are the 21 words in our dictionary that use a Q and no U, from QAT and QOPH to QWERTY, with what they mean.