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PELOG C
93.1%
of words eliminated

How PELOG performs

Played first, PELOG removes about 93.1% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.72 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #4,967 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, PELOG left an average of 163 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 19, 2026, when the answer was CHURN and 387 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

OutcomePELOG
First-turn solve*0%
At least one green25.7%
Any green or yellow83.6%
Whole row gray16.4%
Worst case answers left387

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