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STEWY C
91.5%
of words eliminated

How STEWY performs

Played first, STEWY removes about 91.5% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.47 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #7,495 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, STEWY left an average of 205 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 20, 2026, when the answer was DIVER and 424 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

OutcomeSTEWY
First-turn solve*0%
At least one green36.0%
Any green or yellow82.9%
Whole row gray17.1%
Worst case answers left424

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