Wordle Answer for October 1, 2022

Why this word played the way it did

LEAVE is unusually vowel-heavy with 3 vowels (E, A), so vowel-first openers paid off immediately. The letter E appears twice, and double letters are the single most common reason a streak dies — Wordle gives no special signal that a letter repeats.

The real danger came from near-neighbors: WEAVE and LEARE differ by just one letter, and players who locked in four greens early often had to burn a guess — or two — separating them. The counter-move is to guess a word that tests the differing letters at once rather than trying each candidate in turn.

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