Starting words

The useful opening guesses are the ones that introduce common letters you have not used yet. This trio is scored from the answer list, not from a win-rate claim.

A Duotrigordle opener is scored on all 32 boards at once, so a word with five different common letters tells you more than a word that repeats a letter or leans on rare ones. The counts below come from the 2,315 answers this site can hide. A letter's count is the number of those answers that contain it at least once.

A three-word start

Each next word is the answer-list word with five unique letters that adds the most unused frequency. Together they cover 15 different letters: a, c, d, e, g, i, l, n, o, p, r, s, t, u, y.

  1. Guess 1alertNew letters: a, e, l, r, t
  2. Guess 2scionNew letters: c, i, n, o, s
  3. Guess 3pudgyNew letters: d, g, p, u, y

Most common letters

Highest to lowest, among answers that contain the letter at least once.

  1. 1e1,056 answers
  2. 2a909 answers
  3. 3r837 answers
  4. 4o673 answers
  5. 5t667 answers
  6. 6l648 answers
  7. 7i647 answers
  8. 8s618 answers
  9. 9n550 answers
  10. 10u457 answers

After these three, switch to solving. You only have five guesses that can fail to finish a board, and three of them may already be spent. Pin a board that is nearly all green and type the word it must be. Jumble mode will ignore this plan: it enters three different openers for you.