Wordle Solver: Narrow It Down Guess By Guess

Wordle is a daily online word puzzle where you get six tries to guess a secret five letter word. After each guess, each tile turns gray if the letter isn't in the word, yellow if it's in the word but in the wrong spot, or green if it's in the right spot.

Type each guess you've already made into a row, then click the small button under each letter to set its color: no for gray, some for yellow, yes for green. The list of possible answers updates instantly based on every clue you've entered so far.

No, and it isn't trying to. It only works from the guesses and colors you enter yourself, narrowing down the field of possible words rather than looking anything up.

Gray means that letter doesn't appear anywhere in the answer. Yellow means the letter is in the answer but not in that position. Green means the letter is correct and in the right position.

Enter every guess as its own row for the most accurate results, since each one adds more information and narrows the list of possible answers further.

The Suggested next guesses list scores each remaining candidate by how common its letters are across every other word still in play, then ranks the words sharing the most letters with the rest of the field highest. Guessing one of these tends to rule out the largest number of remaining possibilities.

No, and we'd rather be upfront about that. This is a straightforward letter frequency heuristic, fast and genuinely useful, but it won't always match what a solver built specifically to minimize expected guesses would pick.

Words with several common, distinct letters tend to work well, especially ones that mix a few vowels with frequently used consonants. Rather than memorizing one fixed opener, our Random Word Generator set to five letters is a fun way to mix up your starting guess.

That's a personal call. Plenty of players save a tool like this for when they're genuinely stuck rather than using it from the very first guess. Use it however fits the way you like to play.

Yes, since it works purely from the letters and colors you enter, it applies to any Wordle style game using standard five letter words and the same gray, yellow, green feedback system.

It will still narrow the list correctly regardless of mode. Hard mode just requires you to actually use the clues you've already uncovered in your next real guess, which this tool doesn't enforce, so it's on you to follow that rule when playing hard mode.

Six. Each one narrows the possibilities further whether you're solving it in your head or feeding the guesses into a tool like this one.

It follows the same duplicate letter rules Wordle itself uses: if a repeated letter shows as gray after already showing as yellow or green elsewhere in that guess, it means no more copies of that letter appear, not that the letter is entirely absent.

Yes, completely free to use, with no account or download required.

Spread your early guesses across different letters rather than repeating ones you've already ruled in or out, save common but flexible letters like S and E for when they'll actually narrow things down, and don't be afraid to use a guess purely to gather information rather than to win outright.

A good guess narrows the field of remaining possible answers by a lot, whether or not it happens to be correct. A lucky guess is just correct. Over time, guesses that consistently narrow the field will get you to the answer faster on average, even on the days luck doesn't go your way.

No, Wordle is a trademark of The New York Times Company, and this is an independent, unaffiliated helper tool.

No, everything runs client side in your browser, and nothing you type is saved or sent to a server.

It's built to reliably narrow the field to every word that's still logically possible given your clues, which is the accurate, provable part. The ranked suggestion at the top is a helpful heuristic on top of that, not a guarantee of the single best next move.

E, A, R, O, T, and S show up disproportionately often across five letter English words in general, which is part of why so many strong opening guesses lean on that letter set.

Reviewing how a tool like this narrows the field after each of your guesses is a good way to notice which of your own guesses were actually efficient and which just happened to work out, which can sharpen your instincts for next time.

Not currently. This tool is built specifically around Wordle's five letter, six guess format.

Yes, it works well on mobile, so you can keep the solver open in one tab while playing in another.