Compare NOSED

How NOSED performs

Played first, NOSED removes about 94.6% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 5.03 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #2,232 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, NOSED left an average of 127 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 12, 2026, when the answer was CLACK and 307 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

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