Positional Letter Heatmaps (4–8 Letters)
Positional letter frequency across 4- to 8-letter words. Discover where each letter tends to cluster so you can make higher-probability word deductions.
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Cell values are the percentage of 5-letter words with that letter in that position. Stronger cyan = more frequent.
What Is a Positional Heatmap?
Not every letter is equally likely to show up everywhere in a word. Some letters cluster toward the start (like S), others toward the end (like E or S again), and some barely appear at certain lengths at all. This heatmap scans every word of the length you pick and calculates, for each of the 26 letters, what percentage of words have it in position 1, position 2, and so on — darker cyan means a stronger match.
Using Heatmaps for Wordle
Use the table to sanity-check your starting word: an opener that covers several high-frequency positions gives you more information from a single guess. Later in the game, it can also help you weigh two remaining candidates — if one puts a rare letter in a rare position, the other is usually the safer bet. One example worth knowing for 5-letter words: S closes 29.2% of them, making word-final S the single strongest letter-position match in the whole grid — notably stronger than any other letter's best position.
Put Heatmaps to Work
Test your letter positions in Guess the Word or check optimal openers.
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