Oh, wait, actually the best Wordle opener is not “crane”…

Summary by Krater

The creator corrects a minor bug in his previous Wordle-solving code that affected multi-letter handling, and then expands the analysis to find optimal starting guesses using information theory and two-step expected information metrics.

From the video

Answers: What is the optimal starting word for Wordle according to information theory and two-step analysis?

• Wordle strategy
• information theory in Wordle
• expected information calculation
• two-step entropy analysis
• optimal starting words

What it concludes

• The one-step information theory metric places 'soare' as the best starting guess with an expected information of 5.89 bits.
• When using a two-step entropy analysis that calculates expected information two steps ahead, 'slane' emerges as the top-ranking opening word with a score of 10.04.
• Running simulations across all 2,315 possible Wordle games reveals 'salet' achieves the best overall average score of 3.421.
• Commonly recommended solver openers like 'salet', 'trace', and 'crate' yield nearly identical average performance in actual gameplay.