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RAINY B
95.1%
of words eliminated

How RAINY performs

Played first, RAINY removes about 95.1% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 5.17 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #1,370 out of 14,855 Wordle guesses tested. Roughly 42% of the time at least one letter lands in the right spot.

Tried against 1,858 past Wordle answers, RAINY left an average of 118 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 18, 2026, when the answer was BOOTH and 279 candidates survived. It has been the daily answer once.

First-guess odds

OutcomeRAINY
First-turn solve*0.04%
At least one green42.5%
Any green or yellow88.2%
Whole row gray11.8%
Worst case answers left279

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