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QUERY C
90.5%
of words eliminated

How QUERY performs

Played first, QUERY removes about 90.5% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.08 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #10,886 out of 14,855 Wordle guesses tested. Roughly 32% of the time at least one letter lands in the right spot.

Tried against 1,858 past Wordle answers, QUERY left an average of 229 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 18, 2026, when the answer was BOOTH and 437 candidates survived. It has been the daily answer once.

First-guess odds

OutcomeQUERY
First-turn solve*0.04%
At least one green32.4%
Any green or yellow81.5%
Whole row gray18.5%
Worst case answers left437

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