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CORAL B
95.5%
of words eliminated

How CORAL performs

Played first, CORAL removes about 95.5% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 5.35 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #592 out of 14,855 Wordle guesses tested. Roughly 33% of the time at least one letter lands in the right spot.

Tried against 1,858 past Wordle answers, CORAL left an average of 105 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 16, 2026, when the answer was BUTTE and 286 candidates survived. It has been the daily answer once.

First-guess odds

OutcomeCORAL
First-turn solve*0.04%
At least one green33.2%
Any green or yellow87.9%
Whole row gray12.1%
Worst case answers left286

*Treating every word in the possible-answer list as equally likely.