Wordle 1,081 6/6*
SPURN WRETCH WORMY MOLAR BROOM GROOM
Wordle 1,081 6/6*
SPURN WRETCH WORMY MOLAR BROOM GROOM
Wordle 1 081 5/6
(OLIVE → ABOUT → GROSS → GROWN → GROOM)
Wordle 1,081 5/6
TRACE GUILD GROSS GROWN GROOM
I exhausted the only three words that remained after step 2…
Wordle 1,082 5/6
ADIEU PLANK RANCH GROAN ORGAN
Wordle 1,082 3/6*
TRAIN ARGON ORGAN
La palabra del día #881 3/6
(JUMAR BOCAL FOCAL)
Wordle 1,082 3/6
(JUMAR ROSAL ORGAN)
Wordle 1,082 4/6*
SPORK TORCH ORDER ORGAN
Wordle 1,082 3/6
TRACE BLOND ORGAN
Wordle 1,083 4/6
ADIEU COVEN STEER ETHER
La palabra del día #882 3/6
(GARBÓ RUEGA AGUAR)
Wordle 1,083 3/6
(GARBO UTERI ETHER)
Wordle 1,083 4/6*
TRAIN COURT ESTER ETHER
Wordle 1 083 5/6
(CLOAK → WEIRD → BRUTE → ENTER → ETHER)
Wordle 1,083 4/6*
BROTH HEART THEIR ETHER
Wordle 1,083 5/6
TRACE FLIRT OTTER STEER ETHER
@Logolepsy I’ve been wondering how you find your starting words that are valid in both Spanish and English. Sometimes they’re really out there! Do you have a list, or you just know a ton of esoteric words? Either way, I love your strategy.
Thank you for the question @SamSam. This is going to be a long response…
I started playing Wordle sometime in January 2022. I discovered the Spanish version in February 2022.
On November 19th, 2022, it occurred to me to challenge myself to start with the same exact word in both Spanish and English. At the time, I figured I could come up with new words on the spot every morning. And yes, at the beginning it was fairly easy; starter words were readily available in my mind as they were fairly common words (e.g., RADIO, MORAL, AUDIO, VISTA, PIANO, MOTEL, IDEAL, etc.). For the most part, they were true perfect cognates (same meaning in both languages).
By the beginning of 2023, this self-imposed challenge was getting tough; for instance, on March 10th, 2023, I used BEIGE as a starter word, wasting one letter, simply because I couldn’t come up with anything else on the spot. On May 10th, 2023, @GagHalfrunt asked if I would ever run out of starter words.
This made me realize that I should start a backup list, just in case. So, whenever I stumble upon a five-letter word that works in both languages, I add it to my list.
So, most mornings I just pick a random starter word from my list.
Initially, the list grew fairly fast (I would use one word per day, but I would add two to four words on that same day). Some months ago, I noticed that the list wasn’t growing as fast as before. I started randomly checking two dictionaries to see if I could find some fairly obscure semi-cognate words (not necessarily the same meaning). This is why you now see some esoteric words.
But sometimes, I don’t use the list, as I come up with a new word on the spot, or I get reminded of a word by a recent Wordle (by me or others). If recently you see a fairly common word like HAIKU (which I used as a starter word last week), it is because it wasn’t on the list.
So far there has been only one word that was on my list that didn’t work on both Wordles. So on that day, I had to use two different (but close) starter words.
It’s been a bit over a year and a half… I am now running low on words. I wonder if I have found most of them. Currently, my list is shrinking at an alarming rate; I now have only about two month’s worth (but I still come up with new ones, maybe once a week or so).
I haven’t decided what I will do when the list runs out. Maybe I will start using plurals, maybe I will use words that use the same letter twice. Maybe I will just quit Wordle altogether. We’ll see…
Wordle 1 084 3/6
(QUARK → SLOPE → MELON)
Wordle 1,084 6/6
ADIEU CHEST LOVER BLOKE FELON MELON
La palabra del día #883 4/6
(GLIDE PRISA ATINÓ ÁCIMO)
Wordle 1,084 4/6
(GLIDE HOTEL LEMON MELON)
Wordle 1,084 3/6*
TRAIN WOMEN MELON
Wordle 1,084 5/6
TRACE LIONS NOVEL FELON MELON
@Logolepsy That’s awesome. I don’t know whether It would be against the spirit of your project, but there are online lists of all valid wordle words, certainly in English and probably in Spanish. It would be simple work to write a program to compare the two of them and make a list of all the matches. Given your list, it could also check off all the ones you’ve already done. But perhaps part of the point is working to come up with the words?