Compare GUMPS

How GUMPS performs

Played first, GUMPS removes about 83.2% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 3.78 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #12,771 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, GUMPS left an average of 405 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 20, 2026, when the answer was DIVER and 864 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

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