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PELTA B
95.3%
of words eliminated

How PELTA performs

Played first, PELTA removes about 95.3% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 5.22 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #1,102 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 1,859 past Wordle answers, PELTA left an average of 110 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 19, 2026, when the answer was CHURN and 261 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

OutcomePELTA
First-turn solve*0%
At least one green26.2%
Any green or yellow88.9%
Whole row gray11.1%
Worst case answers left261

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