Only about 0.02 percent of the words in a dictionary start with the letter 'X.' Here are 40 of those rarities.

The number of words starting with the letter X continued to rise until it reached the 400 that we have today. Next, see if you can guess the most common letter in the English language.

I think about Wordle a lot. Maybe a little too much. My strategy of starting with TRAIN and then trying CLOSE as my second word got me to a near-100 winning streak before I blew it a couple of ...

If a rare letter such as X is contained in the solution word, you would clear out a huge amount of the 2,309 possible solutions in the first step. In fact, only 37 of the possible words contain an X.

As letters of the alphabet go, there is one that punches well above its weight. Out of a total of 308,000 entries in the Oxford English Dictionary, just 366 words begin with the letter "x", and ...

These hints are updated as you find words. For more tips, read Getting to Genius, Part 1. The number of remaining words, grouped by starting letter and word length. Explain more This puzzle has 37 ...