As you can see from the list below, E is by far the most common letter used, appearing 376 times (and counting), followed by A with 339 and R (302). Also topping 200 are T (254), O (250), L (218), and I (203).

Based on the pattern of frequency R, E, A, S, B, G, N, O, T, U, in descending order, are commonly found in January 2022’s set of Wordles. Letters like I, Y, K, L, M, C, Q, etc have a lower appearance rate with letters like H, and Z not making it at all so far to Wordle 2022 words.

Similar to Fan, Jelen used data to come up with the best word. Using a list of 8,000 five-letter Scrabble words, Mr. Excel found that s, e, a, r, and o are the top five most common letters.