Pete's Log: Thankful Words

Entry #2437, (Word Games and Puzzles)
(posted when I was 45 years old.)

With holiday Wordle words fresh on my mind, I started tracking the two five-letter Thanksgiving words I could think of on Tuesday. The words were thank and gravy.

Both performed well on Thanksgiving day with thank hitting the 8th spot and gravy getting to 24th.

Top 15 starting words for Wordle on Nov 23, 2023: adieu, arise, audio, slate, raise, arise, crane, thank, irate, train, great, house, arise, aisle, heart. Beneath that list is also highlighted the 24th most used word which is gravy

I tracked their performances through today, so you can see that both seemed to outperform their averages.

Handdrawn chart of Thanksgiving Wordle starting word ranks. The X axis is days of the week, Tue-Sun with Thursday being Thanksgiving. Two words are charted: Thank and Gravy. Thank starts at 105 on Tuesday, then 53, 8 on Thursday, then 44, 164 and 198. Gravy starts at 290 on Tuesday, then 174, then 24 on Thursday, then 190, 461 and 508

Ghost seems a more popular "average day" starting word than either, clocking in at #60 today. Now I just need to think of some five letter Christmas words.