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by SoylentOrange 1608 days ago
I don't think this list is accurate, because the expected number of guesses for the top words should be fewer than 5. I'll post something in more detail later, but the best guesses on the 12,972 5-letter words have an expected number of guesses of around 4.3.
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It's a units issue. I'm measuring in yes/no questions, which is the native scale for Shannon entropy. You're measuring in Wordle questions. There's more information in a Wordle answer than in a yes/no answer.