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How NOUNS performs

Played first, NOUNS removes about 87.5% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.01 bits of information. It is not on the possible-answer list, but it can still be useful because of the feedback groups it creates.

Tried against 1,859 past Wordle answers, NOUNS left an average of 294 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 20, 2026, when the answer was DIVER and 708 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

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