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INFER C
93.5%
of words eliminated

How INFER performs

Played first, INFER removes about 93.5% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.77 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #4,489 out of 14,855 Wordle guesses tested. Roughly 21% of the time at least one letter lands in the right spot.

Tried against 1,858 past Wordle answers, INFER left an average of 153 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 18, 2026, when the answer was BOOTH and 362 candidates survived. It has been the daily answer once.

First-guess odds

OutcomeINFER
First-turn solve*0.04%
At least one green21.2%
Any green or yellow84.6%
Whole row gray15.4%
Worst case answers left362

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