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How WELLY performs

Played first, WELLY removes about 86.3% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 3.82 bits of information. It is not on the possible-answer list, but it can still be useful because of the feedback groups it creates.

Tried against 1,859 past Wordle answers, WELLY left an average of 328 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 19, 2026, when the answer was CHURN and 614 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

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