There’s an art and a science to picking a good starting word for Wordle. Here are my suggestions for the best starters—and how to find the best starter for your playing style.

The answer to yesterday’s Wordle was JUMBO. The idea of Wordle is to guess the day’s secret word. When you first open the Wordle game, you’ll see an empty grid of letters. It’s up to you to make the first move: type in any five-letter word.

Wordle is a game about words, but numbers can help you beat it. We've delved into the data to find the most useful patterns.

Wordle Answer Today: Wordle players woke up this Thursday, January 29, to another fun brain puzzle. The five-letter daily game continues to test focus, thinking skills, and word knowledge. For many people,

Today's Wordle answer on Wednesday, January 28, 2026, is CRUEL. -If you missed it, catch up with the answer to yesterday’s Wordle. This story was originally published by Parade on Jan 28, 2026, where it first appeared in the Life section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.

That number was whittled down to 2,309 by the NYT after it bought Wordle in January 2022, and then increased by an unknown amount over the next couple of years, with the addition of solutions such as SNAFU (game #659) and OOMPH (#1662).