There are no repeated letters here, for instance, and as it turned out it wasn't an ER word at all. In fact, it won't have been that bad at all if you began with TRICE – which left only five ...
A nice and simple one today, with 'I', 'C' and 'E' all among the ten most common Wordle letters. Just one was in the top five, however, which meant my starting word of ORATE only uncovered a ...
Wordle doesn't repeat words if it can help it. Perhaps one day the New York Times will need to start recycling old words, but there's an awful lot of viable five-letter words to choose from, so for ...