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POPES C
90.6%
of words eliminated

How POPES performs

Played first, POPES removes about 90.6% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.23 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #9,765 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, POPES left an average of 224 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 19, 2026, when the answer was CHURN and 458 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

OutcomePOPES
First-turn solve*0%
At least one green31.0%
Any green or yellow80.6%
Whole row gray19.4%
Worst case answers left458

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