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TANGY C
92.3%
of words eliminated

How TANGY performs

Played first, TANGY removes about 92.3% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.71 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #5,104 out of 14,855 Wordle guesses tested. Roughly 36% of the time at least one letter lands in the right spot.

Tried against 1,858 past Wordle answers, TANGY left an average of 181 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 20, 2026, when the answer was DIVER and 477 candidates survived. It has been the daily answer once.

First-guess odds

OutcomeTANGY
First-turn solve*0.04%
At least one green35.8%
Any green or yellow79.8%
Whole row gray20.2%
Worst case answers left477

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