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11% of answers · 255 still fit
TRACE playbook
The best second guesses after TRACE
These are the six feedback branches you are most likely to see after TRACE. Normal Mode can spend a turn testing letters; Hard Mode must obey every colored tile.
- Information
- 5.82 bits
- Avg answers left
- 76.9
- Avg solve
- 3.53 turns
- Overall rank
- #9
The six rows below cover 855 of 2,374 equally weighted answers (36.0%). They require 6 distinct Normal Mode replies and 6 Hard Mode replies.
TRACE has appeared as a completed Wordle answer 2 times; the latest recorded date is 2026-08-21.
Most common outcomes
Six rows worth learning
Gray, yellow and green tiles follow exact Wordle duplicate-letter rules.
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5.6% of answers · 133 still fit
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Eyellow
5.3% of answers · 126 still fit
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5.0% of answers · 118 still fit
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4.8% of answers · 115 still fit
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4.5% of answers · 108 still fit
How to use it
Match the table to your feedback row
The ranking minimizes the number of working-pool answers expected after turn two, then protects against the largest unhelpful feedback group. It compares 14,855 accepted guesses against 2,374 possible answers.
The overall opener rank and average-solve figure use the latest complete six-turn simulation snapshot (2,354 answers). Branch probabilities and second-guess recommendations are recalculated on the current 2,374-answer pool.
A fixed reply cannot be best for every feedback result. If your result is not one of these six, enter all five tiles in the calculator. Prefilled results are temporary views of the same calculator.