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PESKY C
89.3%
of words eliminated

How PESKY performs

Played first, PESKY removes about 89.3% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.19 bits of information. Roughly 31% of the time at least one letter lands in the right spot.

Tried against 1,859 past Wordle answers, PESKY left an average of 260 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 19, 2026, when the answer was CHURN and 521 candidates survived. It has been the daily answer once.

First-guess odds

OutcomePESKY
First-turn solve*0.04%
At least one green30.9%
Any green or yellow77.9%
Whole row gray22.1%
Worst case answers left521

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