Ever fell into this trap in Wordle?
You guess a word with 3 or 4 letters in the right place but you’re left with a lot of words that match that exact pattern. Example:
Average number of words with same n letters
This situation commonly occurs with 3 or 4 letters in my experience. Turns out the average number of words with the same 4 letters is 3.048 and for 3 letters it’s 8.044.
You can try it out here.
What should you do?
- Break the trap: If you think there might be a lot of guesses, try to see if a completely different word with different letters with the one you got the hit reveals anything. For example, instead of continuing with ALLO words, try something like GUILT
- If you don’t want to do that, for 4 letter traps, if you have 3 attempts left, you should keep guessing since the average is 3.
- For 3 letters, it’s better to just break it since the average is 8.