A simple Wordle helper bot. Both backend and frontend are written in Rust.
Download the repository and run cargo build --release in any subdirectory.
You will need an Internet connection to download indicatif dependency (for CLI progress bar).
Run ./target/release/wordler.* ./src/words/words.txt from the root directory to play.
This is a good question, and one that I don't claim to know the answer to.
However, I searched the list of possible answers (as found in Wordle source code) and as of 22 Mar 2022 I believe the best starting word is raise, which yields the player an expected 4.075 bits of information.
Words with repeated letters seem to mess it up sometimes and I'm working on correcting that now.