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Miranda Slade & Sophie Buchan

Wordle today: Tips to easily guess 'Word of the Day' according to expert

Everyone is obsessed with one game in recent weeks - and that's Wordle.

The online game requires players to guess a five letter word and they have six attempts to guess what is called the 'word of the day'.

In order to guess it, users type in a word, press submit and hope the screen turns green.

In total, there are three colours that you need to keep an eye on - green, orange and grey.

The green colour means that you have guessed the correct letter and it's in the correct place.

An orange square means the letter is correct however it is in the wrong place and a grey letter means that the letter is not in the word.

But whilst this game is fun and gets your brain thinking, it can be really hard to guess the correct letter with just six guesses.

It became popular after one of the words was Knoll - a word not many people could guess. It then went viral again on social media after the word 'favour' was spelt 'favor'.

People in America seem to love it too after TV host Jimmy Fallon played the game live on his show.

So if you need some tips to keep up your streak, look no further...

Wordle has become a popular game. (Wordle.)

According to the Express, language experts at Busuu, a language learning app, have provided some top tips to help you at the game and how to guess the word in as few attempts as possible.

The experts highlighted the most common consonants in English are T, N, S, R, H, L, D and C, while E is the most common of the vowels.

So for the strongest starting words you’ll want a vowel-heavy word containing a few common consonants.

Starting with a word like IRATE, RETIA, CRIES or TRIED is likely to reveal at least one correct letter.

After establishing the vowels, you can move onto words containing more of those common consonants such as STAND, SHIRT or HANDS.

You should also bear in mind that in the English language, many words begin with RE, CO and IN whilst common word endings are ND and AL.

Federico Espinosa, director of learning design at Busuu, said: "To become a Wordle Master, it’s important to identify the most common letter combinations.

"Spotting these sorts of patterns will help you familiarise yourself with the English language – both inside and outside of Wordle!"

You can play the game here https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

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