Compare HENRY

How HENRY performs

Played first, HENRY removes about 93.9% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.84 bits of information. It is not on the possible-answer list, but it can still be useful because of the feedback groups it creates.

Tried against 1,859 past Wordle answers, HENRY left an average of 146 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 13, 2026, when the answer was STOUT and 297 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

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