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JEWED F
78.4%
of words eliminated

How JEWED performs

Played first, JEWED removes about 78.4% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 3.26 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #14,350 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, JEWED left an average of 504 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 19, 2026, when the answer was CHURN and 987 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

OutcomeJEWED
First-turn solve*0%
At least one green27.7%
Any green or yellow58.1%
Whole row gray41.9%
Worst case answers left987

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