Compare LIDOS

How LIDOS performs

Played first, LIDOS removes about 93.4% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.76 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #4,581 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, LIDOS left an average of 156 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 19, 2026, when the answer was CHURN and 401 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

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