Louisa Lowe
How I work
Two rules govern everything published here. First, the word lists are the source of truth: when a guide quotes a statistic — the best Wordle opener, the number of words without a U after their Q — it is computed from this site's own 168,401-word dictionary, not copied from elsewhere, so readers can check any figure against the lists we publish. Second, where a fact comes from outside our data (a dictionary's entry count, a game's history), the guide says whose figure it is. Corrections are always welcome and acted on.
Guides by Louisa
- Wordle strategy: what 8,610 five-letter words say about your opening guess
- Letter frequency in English: the full picture from 168,401 words
- Every two-letter word — and why they win Scrabble games
- Q without U: the complete list of 29 words
- How to win hangman, according to the dictionary
- How to solve anagrams faster: five habits that work
- Word ladders: Lewis Carroll's puzzle, and how ours are made
- How many words are there in English?
- Every palindrome in our word list, by length
- Isograms: words with no repeated letter
- Double letters: which ones double, and which never do
- Words that use every vowel, and words that use none
- Words with their letters in alphabetical order
- The best Scrabble word at every length