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MADLY C
90.0%
of words eliminated

How MADLY performs

Played first, MADLY removes about 90.0% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.48 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #7,298 out of 14,855 Wordle guesses tested. Roughly 34% of the time at least one letter lands in the right spot.

Tried against 1,858 past Wordle answers, MADLY left an average of 236 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 19, 2026, when the answer was CHURN and 616 candidates survived. It has been the daily answer once.

First-guess odds

OutcomeMADLY
First-turn solve*0.04%
At least one green33.9%
Any green or yellow73.9%
Whole row gray26.1%
Worst case answers left616

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