Wordle Archive Statistics

What This Wordle History Page Covers

Wordle history is most useful when the sample behind the numbers is visible. The statistics at the top of this page describe the past puzzles in this archive. The page shows the number of puzzles included and the date range they cover. Today’s active answer is excluded from the historical sample. If the archive contains 90 past puzzles, the percentages describe those 90 puzzles. If the collection grows to 300, the values may change. The visible sample size is part of the statistic, not a footnote.

This makes the Wordle history and statistics page useful for exploring structure without overclaiming. You can see how often repeated letters appear in the available archive, how many standard vowels answers tend to contain, and which first letters occur most often in the available records. Those facts describe the collection. They do not tell you what the next answer will be.

Repeated Letters in the Wordle Archive

One of the clearest historical questions is how often an answer in the archive contains a repeated letter. The summary at the top reports that share for this sample. A repeated-letter answer is any solution where at least one character appears more than once.

This statistic is interesting because repeated letters change how tile feedback behaves. If a guess contains two copies of a letter but the answer contains only one, one tile can be colored while the extra copy is gray. If the answer itself contains a double, a player may not discover that second copy until late in the solve.

The historical percentage gives context for how common that structure has been in the available sample. It does not mean that the next puzzle has the same probability of containing a repeat. Past Wordle answers are not an independent probability table supplied by the official game, and the archive is not used to forecast future selection.

A better use is retrospective. If today’s difficulty page reveals a repeated letter, you can compare that feature with the archive and see whether it is common or relatively unusual in the available records.

Vowel Counts Across Past Wordle Answers

The vowel distribution chart groups historical answers by the number of standard vowel positions they contain. This site counts A, E, I, O and U as standard vowels and treats Y as a consonant for consistency across the word list, daily hints and difficulty analysis.

Each position counts. If an answer contains two E’s, both positions contribute to the vowel count. The chart therefore describes the structure of the five-letter answer, not the number of distinct vowel characters.

The average standard-vowel count shown at the top is simply the total number of standard-vowel positions divided by the number of past puzzles in the sample. It can be useful as a broad description of the archive, but it should not turn into a rule such as “the best guess must always contain two vowels.” A good guess depends on what your current board still needs to learn.

The distribution is more informative than the average alone. Two archives can share the same average while having very different numbers of zero-vowel, one-vowel and three-vowel answers. Looking at the full spread helps you see that Wordle answer structure is varied.

Most Frequent First Letters in This Archive

The first-letter chart counts how often each starting letter appears among the answers in this archive. The highest bars show the most frequent first letters within this sample.

It is natural to look at the chart and think that a common historical first letter should be a better bet tomorrow. That is not what the chart proves. Frequency in a limited historical collection does not establish the selection process for future Wordle answers. A letter that has appeared many times can appear again; a letter that has appeared rarely is not automatically “due.”

Use first-letter frequency as descriptive Wordle history. It can help you understand the composition of the archive and compare broad patterns, but the current puzzle’s green, yellow and gray feedback should always carry more weight than historical counts.

How the Sample Changes Over Time

The statistics update as more completed puzzles are added to the archive. A new answer may slightly change the repeated-letter percentage, move the average vowel count, or add one count to a starting letter.

Large changes usually become less noticeable as the sample grows because each new answer represents a smaller share of the total. The visible date range and puzzle count give you the context needed to interpret any change correctly.

A single history overview also makes the archive easier to interpret. You can see the sample size, date range and major patterns together instead of piecing conclusions together from many individual puzzles.

Explore the Underlying Past Wordle Answers

Statistics are easier to trust when you can inspect the records behind them. The Past Wordle Answers page lets you inspect the searchable archive behind these summaries. Browse by month, date, puzzle number or answer, and reveal individual solutions as needed.

This link between raw archive and summary page is important. A percentage with no visible dataset can look more authoritative than it is. A percentage paired with a count, date range and browsable records is easier to interpret correctly.

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