Compare ORTHO

How ORTHO performs

Played first, ORTHO removes about 89.6% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.19 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #10,061 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, ORTHO left an average of 240 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 17, 2026, when the answer was LEGAL and 595 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

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