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MOURN C
92.1%
of words eliminated

How MOURN performs

Played first, MOURN removes about 92.1% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.77 bits of information. Roughly 31% of the time at least one letter lands in the right spot.

Tried against 1,859 past Wordle answers, MOURN left an average of 184 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 21, 2026, when the answer was SHILL and 505 candidates survived. It has been the daily answer once.

First-guess odds

OutcomeMOURN
First-turn solve*0.04%
At least one green30.7%
Any green or yellow78.6%
Whole row gray21.4%
Worst case answers left505

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