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DINGY C
85.7%
of words eliminated

How DINGY performs

Played first, DINGY removes about 85.7% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.17 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #10,292 out of 14,855 Wordle guesses tested. Roughly 30% of the time at least one letter lands in the right spot.

Tried against 1,858 past Wordle answers, DINGY left an average of 342 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 18, 2026, when the answer was BOOTH and 811 candidates survived. It has been the daily answer once.

First-guess odds

OutcomeDINGY
First-turn solve*0.04%
At least one green30.2%
Any green or yellow65.6%
Whole row gray34.4%
Worst case answers left811

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