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NURSE B
95.6%
of words eliminated

How NURSE performs

Played first, NURSE removes about 95.6% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 5.31 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #709 out of 14,855 Wordle guesses tested. Roughly 35% of the time at least one letter lands in the right spot.

Tried against 1,858 past Wordle answers, NURSE left an average of 102 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 18, 2026, when the answer was BOOTH and 285 candidates survived. It has been the daily answer once.

First-guess odds

OutcomeNURSE
First-turn solve*0.04%
At least one green35.3%
Any green or yellow87.9%
Whole row gray12.1%
Worst case answers left285

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