Research

Measured findings about Wordle, each reproducible from the public repository.

• Does Wordle repeat answers? — yes, since 02-02-2026, and it breaks most solvers.
• What is the best Wordle starting word? — SALET, and the popular way of choosing an opener picks the wrong one.
• How does the NYT Wordle API work? — it serves the full history and about a month ahead.

How this was measured

The answer pool is the union of the leaked original curated list and every answer the New York Times has actually used — 2,380 words, because NYT has used 65 words the original list never contained. The guess pool is 12,972 words.

Every figure here comes from playing all 2,380 possible answers to completion with the solver on this site. Nothing is estimated and nothing is quoted from another site. You can re-derive it: the repository is public and npm run test:solver prints the solve rate and average.

Answer data comes from the New York Times’ own svc/wordle/v2 endpoint — the same source the game serves its players — not scraped from other hint sites.