Not directly related to the article, but I was just wondering what the best word to start wordle with is - and I think it is ATONE.

I arrived there by looking at the most frequent letters in english from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency and putting them into an anagram solver at https://www.thewordfinder.com/anagram-solver/

There is no five letter word from ETAOI (the five most frequent letters) but there are some from ETAOIN (the top six), namely atone, eatin, entia, oaten, tenia and tinea.

Wordle doesn't recognize most of these, but it does recognize atone