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MUSTY C
88.7%
of words eliminated

How MUSTY performs

Played first, MUSTY removes about 88.7% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.30 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #9,190 out of 14,855 Wordle guesses tested. Roughly 30% of the time at least one letter lands in the right spot.

Tried against 1,858 past Wordle answers, MUSTY left an average of 274 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 20, 2026, when the answer was DIVER and 664 candidates survived. It has been the daily answer once.

First-guess odds

OutcomeMUSTY
First-turn solve*0.04%
At least one green29.5%
Any green or yellow71.8%
Whole row gray28.2%
Worst case answers left664

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