{"id":3161,"date":"2022-02-20T20:05:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T20:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/german-translator.org\/?page_id=3161"},"modified":"2024-09-29T06:51:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T06:51:38","slug":"cracking-wordle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/german-translator.org\/index.php\/cracking-wordle\/","title":{"rendered":"Cracking Wordle"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"3161\" class=\"elementor elementor-3161\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c2a52d1 elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c2a52d1\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;,&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8d7acae\" data-id=\"8d7acae\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7189d64 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"7189d64\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/german-translator.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/101-unlock.svg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-3172\" alt=\"Unlocking a Lock\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d7bef1e blogh1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d7bef1e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Cracking Wordle<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c6eb557 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c6eb557\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Michail Strijov\u00a0 \u00b7\u00a0 Last Updated: 20 Feb 2022<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-692e642 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"692e642\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-37f80fc\" data-id=\"37f80fc\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a4e5882\" data-id=\"a4e5882\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1514b7a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"1514b7a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">\u201cSAUCE\u201d<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1a3450b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1a3450b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"blogbigtext\">is the perfect Wordle starting word, as far as I know.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2e6879e blogbodytext elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2e6879e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"blogbodytext\">If you\u2019ve ever gone online in the past six months, chances are you\u2019ve heard of Wordle, an online word game as simple and as good as they come. Even Masha Gessen, one of my favourite authors in the past years, has taken to posting her (impressive) Wordle results on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mashagessen\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blogbodytext\">While it\u2019s essentially easy to \u201cwin\u201d the game simply by looking up the Wordle of the day, one (or at least I) can\u2019t help but wonder if there\u2019s an ideal word to start the game with, especially since Wordle gives you important bits of information:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"blogbodytext\">\n<li>All words are five letters long<\/li>\n<li>There are no inflected forms, and almost no plurals<\/li>\n<li>Getting as many single letters as possible in the right place with the first word gives you a good shot at solving the Wordle with the six attempts the game gives you<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"blogbodytext\">Based on my primitive understanding of statistics and a <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/first20hours\/google-10000-english\">GitHub repo<\/a> of the 20,000 most common English words (built from Google&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/ngrams\/info\">Trillion Word Corpus<\/a>), I\u2019ve written some <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/outsidecorner\/cracking-wordle\">Python code<\/a> that:<\/p>\n<ol class=\"blogbodytext\">\n<li>Ingests the word list<\/li>\n<li>Creates a new list with only five-letter words (excluding any words ending with an \u2019s\u2019 since that includes almost all plurals and skews the statistics; this results in a corpus size of 1980 words)<\/li>\n<li>Slices the words and calculates the probability of a certain letter occuring in a certain position (i. e. the likelihood of the first letter being an A is 6.7%)<\/li>\n<li>Sums up those probabilities for all five letters of each word in the word list<\/li>\n<li>Sorts the list by probability sum and prints it in the console<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"blogbodytext\">According to this script, something like \u201c<b>Saiey<\/b>\u201d would be a great starting word for Worlde \u2013 if only it were a word.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blogbodytext\">And the one word with the most likely sum of letters occuring in their respective position would be \u201c<b>Sauce<\/b>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sweet! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-203d8ca elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"203d8ca\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div style=\"position: absolute; left: 12365px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.replicaoris.com\/\">see page<\/a>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.modernshield.co.uk\/\">http:\/\/www.modernshield.co.uk<\/a>   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vapesshop.de\/\">lost vape paranormal 250c<\/a><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7a7ee6f\" data-id=\"7a7ee6f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-36669f3 elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-phone elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"36669f3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/german-translator.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Michail-Strijov-Portrait-150px.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2578\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2dd678c elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-phone elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2dd678c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><b>By Michail Strijov<\/b><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ca40e1a elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-phone elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ca40e1a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMichail is a full-time freelance translator specialized in technical and IT translations as well as trans-creation. <a href=\"https:\/\/german-translator.org\">Learn more\u2026<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cracking Wordle Michail Strijov\u00a0 \u00b7\u00a0 Last Updated: 20 Feb 2022 \u201cSAUCE\u201d is the perfect Wordle starting word, as far as I know. If you\u2019ve ever gone online in the past six months, chances are you\u2019ve heard of Wordle, an online word game as simple and as good as they come. 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