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YEANS B
95.4%
of words eliminated

How YEANS performs

Played first, YEANS removes about 95.4% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 5.14 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #1,558 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, YEANS left an average of 109 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 20, 2026, when the answer was DIVER and 271 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

OutcomeYEANS
First-turn solve*0%
At least one green29.5%
Any green or yellow90.0%
Whole row gray10.0%
Worst case answers left271

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