STARE + DOILY
Covers A D E I L O R S T Y
Best Octordle starting words
Open with two non-overlapping five-letter words so the first ten letters inform all eight boards. Then solve the hottest board.
CRANE + SOILY
Covers A C E I L N O R S Y
TRACE + SOUND
Covers A C D E N O R S T U
SLATE + ROUND
Covers A D E L N O R S T U
How scoring works with openers
Octordle does not award points for green tiles the way some score-tracking sites do. What matters is information density: each guess must teach something on as many boards as possible. After your openers, jump into the daily game or keep iterating in unlimited.