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POWSY C
87.0%
of words eliminated

How POWSY performs

Played first, POWSY removes about 87.0% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.11 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #10,731 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, POWSY left an average of 317 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 20, 2026, when the answer was DIVER and 742 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

OutcomePOWSY
First-turn solve*0%
At least one green34.4%
Any green or yellow68.5%
Whole row gray31.5%
Worst case answers left742

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