How do you begin WORDLE?

[nebo113]

Some WORDLE players begin every game with the same word, such as teary.  Other players use a different word for each game.  Which player are you?

[Parasaurolophus]

I either start with aeons (for fun) or fiery, followed by aloud. In both cases, I'm covering commonly-used letters; in the latter, I use up all the vowels.

[Langue_doc]

Depends on my mood of the day. I think yesterday I started with prose. Each day is a different story.

[The Future]

Quail, Quack, Files, Flank

[mythbuster]

I start with train. Two vowels and three common consonants. If that has not hits at all, I go to mouse, which then covers all the regular vowels and includes another in the standard  Wheel of Fortune common letter set of rstlne.

[bacardiandlime]

PENIS

[mamselle]

My sense, from those I've seen/know who play it, is that the title has the wrong question.

One might better ask, according to them,

    ...."How do you STOP?"

M.

[Langue_doc]

PENIS

Love this one, should try it sometime.

[ohnoes]

The middle-schooler in me is trying not to respond to Langue_doc's comment, so...

I start with the same word until it inevitably disappoints me after a few weeks and must be replaced.  I started playing with READY; now it's SAUTE.  SAUTE is on thin ice and might not make it through the weekend.

[OneMoreYear]

I'm pretty systematic My starting word is stare. Then doing followed by clump. These give me 15 different letters in the 1st 3 attempts. If I was trying to solve more quickly, I might change strategy. This has been a useful strategy for quordle to get a variety of letters on the board.

[traductio]

I start with words that make me laugh. Today was "honky" (in "honour" of the events of the past three weeks in the town where I live).

Once I started with "boner" because my sense of humour stopped developing at age 12.

[RatGuy]

I play on hard mode, so I try to avoid RSTLN initially. In the past week I've started with Bread, Mouth, Chunk, Misty, and Aegis. I find that I do better if I snag a weird letter early. I almost lost the day it was SHARD.  Honestly, I play Wordle and Quordle as I have my morning coffee, so typically my first guess is whatever I'm thinking about when I wake up.

[the_geneticist]

I start with TEARS.  Then BOING.  But then I switched to hard mode and the second word usually has to change.

[Treehugger]

I usually just free associate. Whatever comes to mind in the form of a five-letter word. I usually do try to pick words that have 5 different letters that are fairly common, but sometimes I just go with anything. it's just a game after all, if I feel like starting with "zooms" or "bleed" or "graft" or "blink" or "yacht" or "xylem" what the heck!

[aside]

STARE

[Same letters as the_geneticist's word, I see.]