Cheat codes for all you #Wordle players.
So this got me thinking, and I calculated the frequency of each letter in each 5 letter word in english.
I found a list of them here:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/charlesreid1/five-letter-words/master/sgb-words.txt
So I downloaded them and ran the following command to get the most frequent letters:
```
$ for char in {a..z}; do count=$(grep $char -o words.txt | wc -l); echo "$count - $char"; done | sort -hr
3033 - s
3009 - e
2348 - a
1915 - o
1910 - r
1592 - i
1586 - l
1585 - t
1285 - n
1181 - d
1089 - u
964 - c
955 - p
886 - y
843 - m
814 - h
715 - b
679 - g
596 - k
561 - f
505 - w
318 - v
139 - x
135 - z
89 - j
53 - q
```
Discussion
Type of stuff that deserves the bookmark 🤯
I had been using irate as my starting word, changed it to raise since all those rank above T. Didn't figure L being above T either.
Suggested second word if you get zero hits on the first? Figure something with O U and a sometimes Y with the other vowels... I use mousy but that would waste my S from the first choice. Guess I need a new word.
Looks like youth or pouty would be good choices. Not sure about young, G is pretty far down 