Wordle doesn't repeat words if it can help it. Perhaps one day the New York Times will need to start recycling old words, but there's an awful lot of viable five-letter words to choose from, so for ...

Still, that meant my starting word of ORATE only turned 'A' green, leaving 81 possible answers, according to WordleBot. The Bot's b est Wordle start words were far better. PLATE, for example ...