Compare EWHOW

How EWHOW performs

Played first, EWHOW removes about 83.6% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 3.33 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #14,223 out of 14,855 Wordle guesses tested. It is not on the possible-answer list, but it can still be useful because of the feedback groups it creates.

Tried against 1,858 past Wordle answers, EWHOW left an average of 382 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 20, 2026, when the answer was DIVER and 644 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

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