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How PAYEE performs
Played first, PAYEE removes about 92.7% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.61 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #6,053 out of 14,855 Wordle guesses tested. Roughly 44% of the time at least one letter lands in the right spot.
Tried against 1,858 past Wordle answers, PAYEE left an average of 173 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 19, 2026, when the answer was CHURN and 436 candidates survived.
First-guess odds
| Outcome | PAYEE |
|---|---|
| First-turn solve* | 0.04% |
| At least one green | 44.1% |
| Any green or yellow | 81.5% |
| Whole row gray | 18.5% |
| Worst case answers left | 436 |
*Treating every word in the possible-answer list as equally likely.