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HOTEL B
95.5%
of words eliminated

How HOTEL performs

Played first, HOTEL removes about 95.5% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 5.26 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #917 out of 14,855 Wordle guesses tested. Roughly 33% of the time at least one letter lands in the right spot.

Tried against 1,858 past Wordle answers, HOTEL left an average of 104 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 11, 2026, when the answer was AVIAN and 265 candidates survived. It has been the daily answer once.

First-guess odds

OutcomeHOTEL
First-turn solve*0.04%
At least one green33.0%
Any green or yellow88.8%
Whole row gray11.2%
Worst case answers left265

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