[maxkfranz]

I used to use “stare” or “stale” as the starting guess when I played Wordle, thinking you’d want to start off with the most common letters, like R-S-T-L-N-E from Wheel of Fortune.

[manarth]

"stale" was used a while back - since then I've been starting with "slate"

[kimos]

But now you can use it again!