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PLANE A
95.8%
of words eliminated

How PLANE performs

Played first, PLANE removes about 95.8% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 5.46 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #294 out of 14,855 Wordle guesses tested. Roughly 41% of the time at least one letter lands in the right spot.

Tried against 1,858 past Wordle answers, PLANE left an average of 97 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 18, 2026, when the answer was BOOTH and 295 candidates survived. It has been the daily answer once.

First-guess odds

OutcomePLANE
First-turn solve*0.04%
At least one green41.4%
Any green or yellow87.5%
Whole row gray12.5%
Worst case answers left295

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