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SOILY B
94.5%
of words eliminated

How SOILY performs

Played first, SOILY removes about 94.5% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 5.07 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #2,031 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, SOILY left an average of 132 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 19, 2026, when the answer was CHURN and 370 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

OutcomeSOILY
First-turn solve*0%
At least one green48.5%
Any green or yellow84.3%
Whole row gray15.7%
Worst case answers left370

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