How to use the Wordle solver
- Type the word you guessed in the game and press Add. It appears as five grey tiles.
- Tap each tile until it matches the game: once for yellow (the letter is in the word but in another spot), twice for green (right letter, right spot). Leave it grey if the letter isn’t in the word. Every tile also shows a symbol (× ~ ✓), so you don’t have to rely on colour.
- Repeat for each guess. The list of possible answers updates instantly.
- Pick one of the suggested next guesses, or any word from the list, and play it.
The address bar keeps your board, so you can bookmark it or share it with a friend. The solver works entirely in your browser.
A worked example
Suppose the answer is GHOST. Here is what each guess tells the solver, counting only words that aren’t likely plurals:
After guess 1: 841 possible answers.
After guess 2: 2 possible answers (ghost, glost).
How repeated letters are handled
Repeated letters are where most solvers go wrong. This one follows the game’s own rules. If you guess a word with two Es and one turns yellow while the other stays grey, the answer has exactly one E. If both are green or yellow, it has at least two. A grey tile for a letter that’s green or yellow elsewhere in the same guess also rules that letter out of the grey tile’s position.
If you set colours that can’t all be true, for example a letter green in one guess and grey everywhere in another, the solver says so instead of quietly showing nothing.
How the next-guess suggestions work
A good guess is one that splits the remaining words as evenly as possible, so that whatever colours you get back, the list shrinks a lot. The solver scores each remaining word by how evenly each of its letters divides the candidates. A letter that every candidate has, or almost none has, tells you little. Ties go to words whose letters sit in common positions. Suggestions are always possible answers, so they also work in hard mode.
It’s a fast rule of thumb, not an exhaustive search. It usually picks a strong guess, but it can’t promise the fewest possible turns.
Good first guesses
With no information yet, the same scoring over common five-letter words (excluding likely plurals) favours these openers:
irate, arose, later, alter, alert, raise, arise, stare
Any word with five different common letters is a sensible start. What matters more is using the feedback well, which is what the solver is for.
Common words first
Daily puzzles pick everyday words, so the solver lists common words first and suggests guesses from them. Rarer words that still fit are listed underneath, in case the puzzle uses one. “Common” here means the word appears in the everyday-vocabulary levels of SCOWL, an openly licensed English word list.
Why “Hide likely plurals” is on
The word list includes plurals such as TAPES and BOXES. Daily five-letter puzzles rarely use simple plurals as answers, so the solver hides words that look like another word plus S or ES. Words that merely end in S, like BLESS or BONUS, are never hidden. Untick the box to see everything.
Frequently asked questions
Does this show today’s answer?
No. The solver doesn’t know the daily answer. It only works out which words fit the colours you enter, so it helps you think through the puzzle rather than skip it.
Why isn’t the answer in the list?
Check each tile’s colour against the game. One wrong tile is the usual cause. If the answer is a plural, untick “Hide likely plurals”. Very new or unusual words may also be missing from the word list.
Can I use it for other five-letter guessing games?
Yes. Any game that marks letters as right spot, wrong spot, or not in the word works the same way.
Is this affiliated with Wordle?
No. This is an independent tool. Wordle is a trademark of The New York Times Company, and this site isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by it.
More tools
Know letters but not colours? The five letter word finder searches by pattern and letters. Have a jumble of letters? Try the word unscrambler. For strategy, read how to find five-letter words.