Wordle’s best starting word found by YouTuber using math

But YouTuber Grant Sanderson, also known as 3Blue1Brown, released a video on Sunday where he shows his process for coming up with the best word, and the Wordle-solving program he created to help make every word just as perfect.

To get the easy thing out of the way first, Sanderson found that the best starting word is “crane,” but with a few caveats.

3Blue1Brown came up with a clever program that solves more words than just Wordle’s The search for Wordle’s best starting word has been going on for as long as the word game has been popular and everyone’s got their own solutions.