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Wordle Solver
Type each guess into a row, then tap its tiles to mark grey letters that are absent, yellow letters in the wrong position, and green letters in the correct position. Every guess is then scored by how much it narrows the field, so you get the mathematically strongest next word rather than just a list of leftovers.
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Best Next Guesses, Ranked by Information Gain
Each suggestion is scored by how much of the remaining uncertainty it removes on average, measured in bits. One bit means the candidate list is cut in half. "Left after" is how many words are expected to survive the guess, whatever colours come back.
#1soare5.89 bits~45 left after
#2roate5.88 bits~45 left after
#3raise⭐5.88 bits~46 left after
#4slate⭐5.86 bits~47 left after
#5crate⭐5.83 bits~47 left after
These are the strongest opening words across all 2,309 possible answers. Enter your first row to get suggestions for your own board.
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Wordle Tips and Strategy
The first thing to understand about Wordle is that the answer list is 2,309 common English words. Uncommon words, proper nouns, and obscure terms will never be the answer. This means your goal is to eliminate common words as fast as possible.
Strong openers work because they cover the letters that appear most often across the 2,309 answers. CRANE hits C, R, A, N, and E, five of the most common letters. SLATE hits S, L, A, T, and E. Either of these will give you strong clues on the first guess.
After two guesses, you should have enough information to solve the puzzle. If not, use the helper to filter remaining options before guess 3.
Watch for double letters
About 9 percent of Wordle answers contain a doubled letter (like ALLEY, ABBEY, or EMCEE). Most players assume all 5 letters are unique. If you have narrowed the list to a handful of options and none fit, try adding a repeated letter.
How to Use the Wordle Helper
Click the first tile of any row and type your 5-letter guess. The cursor advances to the next tile automatically as you type, just like typing into the real Wordle grid.
Below each filled tile there is a tiny "tap" label. Tap it to cycle that tile's color through grey, yellow, and green so it matches exactly what the real Wordle game showed you for that letter.
Repeat this for every guess row you have already played, whether that is 1 row or 5.
Read the "Possible answers" count and the "Best next guess" suggestion that appear below the grid, then scan the word list, where starred entries belong to the official 2,309-word answer list.
Use the Reset board button to clear everything and start over on a new puzzle.
Worked Example: Narrowing Down CRANE
Suppose your first guess is CRANE and Wordle shows C as grey, R as yellow, A as green, N as grey, and E as green. Enter that row into the helper with those exact colors. The tool immediately removes every word containing C or N, keeps only words with A in position 3 and E in position 5, and requires an R somewhere other than position 2. Typical remaining candidates include GRAPE, TRACE, BRAVE, and SHARE. From there, a second guess like TRACE (which reuses R and A while testing T, C removed already, and adds new letters) narrows the field further within one or two more guesses.
A second example: if your first guess is SLATE and every letter turns grey, the helper excludes S, L, A, T, and E entirely from any position, typically cutting the 2,309-word list down by more than half in a single guess.
Common Wordle Mistakes
Reusing a grey letter in a later guess because you forgot it was already excluded.
Ignoring yellow letters and not placing them somewhere new in the next guess.
Guessing words with repeated letters (like ERROR or LEVEL) early, which wastes information since duplicate letters give you less new data per guess.
Overlooking that a letter can be both green and grey in the same word if it appears twice but the answer only contains it once.
Wordle Rules and Scoring
Wordle gives you exactly 6 attempts to guess a hidden 5-letter word. There is no points system, win or lose is the only outcome, though the game tracks your streak and guess distribution over time. A new puzzle unlocks every day at midnight in your local time zone, and everyone in the world plays the exact same word on a given date.
Frequently Asked Questions
Click into the 5x6 grid and type letters, then tap the tiny 'tap' label under each filled tile to cycle its color: grey means the letter is not in the answer, yellow means it is in the answer but the wrong position, and green means it is correct and in the right position. After entering all your clues, the tool filters the Wordle answer list of 2,309 words and shows only the words matching every constraint you have set.
Green means the letter is correct and in the right position. That letter is locked into that spot. Yellow means the letter appears somewhere in the answer but not in the position you guessed. Grey means the letter does not appear anywhere in the answer. If a letter appears twice in your guess and one is green while the other is grey, that letter appears exactly once in the answer in only the green position.
After your first guess, analyze the results before choosing your second word. If you got yellow letters, your second word must place those letters in different positions. If you got grey letters, your second word must not contain any of them. Your goal in guesses 2 and 3 is to eliminate as many possible answers as possible, not to guess the answer itself. Enter your first row into the Wordle Helper to see the remaining candidate count and the suggested best next guess.
The average Wordle player solves the puzzle in approximately 4 guesses. Players who use strong opening words like CRANE, SLATE, or RAISE solve in 3 to 4 guesses about 80 percent of the time. The puzzle allows 6 guesses total. About 1 percent of solvers fail on any given day, meaning roughly 1 in 100 players does not solve the puzzle within 6 attempts.
Wordle accepts a large valid word list as guesses but uses a much smaller curated answer list of 2,309 common words. You can guess an uncommon word like ZOEAE that appears in the valid guess list and Wordle will accept it, but it will never be the actual daily answer because it is not in the answer list. Our helper filters only the 2,309-word answer list, so it shows you words that could actually be the answer, not just valid guesses.
Yes. The Wordle Helper works the same for any puzzle, past or current. Just fill in the grid rows with the tile colors from whatever game you are trying to solve, using as many rows as you actually played. The tool filters the same 2,309-word answer list regardless of date.
Bits measure how much uncertainty a guess removes on average. One bit means the guess is expected to cut the remaining candidate list in half, two bits cut it to a quarter, and so on. The solver plays every possible answer against every candidate guess, groups the results by the tile pattern each would produce, and scores the guess by how evenly it splits the field. A guess worth 5 bits is far more useful than one worth 2, even if the 2-bit word happens to be a possible answer, because it tells you more no matter which colours come back.
Because the goal of guesses 2 and 3 is information, not luck. A word that is already eliminated as an answer can still test five untried letters at once and split the remaining candidates into small groups, guaranteeing you solve on the following turn. Suggestions that could still be today's answer are marked with a star, so you can choose between a safe shot at winning now and a probe that guarantees a win next turn.
A star means that word is still a live candidate for today's answer, so guessing it gives you a chance to win outright on this turn. Suggestions without a star cannot be the answer but were chosen because they reveal more information than any live candidate would.
Zero results almost always means one tile is set to the wrong color. Double-check every green tile is actually correct and every grey tile does not also appear elsewhere in your guess as a green or yellow letter, since Wordle's duplicate-letter rules can make grey letters misleading. Click Reset board and re-enter your rows carefully if you cannot find the mistake.