Pete's Log: Lover's Wordle

Entry #2485, (Word Games and Puzzles)
(posted when I was 45 years old.)

At the beginning of the year, I predicted "I don't think HEART will do much better than fifth place" on Valentine’s Day and as it turns out, it made it to sixth place, chosen by 2.9% of Wordle players:

Most popular starting Wordle words on February 14, 2024: Top 15 are ADIEU, STARE, AUDIO, SLATE, RAISE, HEART, ARISE, TRAIN, IRATE, CRANE, TRACE, GREAT, LOVER, AISLE, HOUSE. Ranked 245 is CANDY.

I also tracked CANDY, which rose to 245th most popular starting word, compared to its usual rank around 500 in the days before and after February 14.

I'm not doing a graph this time, but HEART is generally in 12th or 13th place.

What I didn't see coming (and thus didn't track ahead of time) was LOVER, which made it up to 13th place with a 0.8% share. For comparison, its rank today is 193 (and that's the only other data point I have).