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Top 11 consonants in terms of frequency of use (in any of the 5 positions): R T L S N C H P D G M

Rank order of the 6 vowels (including Y) in terms of frequency of use (in any of the 5 positions): E A O I U Y

Typical Wordle word: 2 vowels (counting Y as the sixth vowel), 1 compound (ex KN)/paired consonant (ex NN)

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Today’s Wordle: TASTE (Typical)[spacer height=”20px”]

NYT WordleBot average score: 4.3 (per Marc McLaren*)
WordleGuru score:  4 😊

Seed Word: ALTER: It is the first word of the triad – ALTER/SONIC/PUDGY
2^nd Word: CHASE:  It is not the second word of the triad.  I call it a reconnaissance (scouting) word.
Reason for selection: A typical Wordle word has 2 vowels. Since the seed word revealed 2 vowels, we didn’t need to search for additional vowels.  Therefore, I chose not to use the second word of the triad (SONIC). Instead, I used CHASE. I had two objectives in mind with CHASE, 1) confirm the positions of the two vowels (A and E) and 2) look for the presence of 3 high volume consonants (C, H and S).
What we learned: CHASE confirmed the position of one of the two vowels (E in the 5^th spot) and revealed the presence of the consonant “S” but not its position. At this stage there are 6 possible answers including one set of orthographic neighbor words – SWEPT, SAUTE, [TASTE, PASTE, WASTE, BASTE], ☹
Next step: Deploy the EnotE© strategy.  I could not come up with one word that could eliminate 5 of the 6 possibilities. So, I had to use the 2^nd best option.

3^rd Word: SWEPT: It is not the third word of the triad. It is an elimination word.
What we learned: Only two possibilities left – BASTE and TASTE. The other 4 got eliminated. 😊

4^th word: TASTE: Used frequency data to select between the two. Luckily the frequency data led to the target word. It was like winning a coin toss. 😊

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