Compare FRUGS

How FRUGS performs

Played first, FRUGS removes about 88.7% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.17 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #10,282 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, FRUGS left an average of 272 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 18, 2026, when the answer was BOOTH and 613 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

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