Wordle Solver
Enter your guesses, mark green / yellow / gray tiles, and find every remaining Wordle answer — plus the best word to guess next.
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What is a Wordle Solver?
Wordle gives you six tries to guess a hidden five-letter word. After each guess, the game colors each tile: green for a correct letter in the correct spot, yellow for a letter that exists elsewhere in the word, and gray for a letter that does not appear at all (with special rules when letters repeat). A Wordle solver automates the logical elimination that experienced players do mentally — it cross-references your clues against thousands of valid words and tells you exactly which answers still fit.
Our solver is built for serious play, not as a toy demo. It uses the official-style NYT Wordle answer corpus, handles duplicate-letter edge cases correctly, supports up to six guess rows like the real game, and recommends next guesses using information theory (expected entropy) rather than random suggestions. Whether you are stuck on today's puzzle or studying opening strategy, you get production-quality results instantly.
How to use this tool
- Enter your first guess — type the five letters you played in Wordle. Use the on-screen grid or your keyboard.
- Mark each tile's color — tap or click a filled tile to cycle through gray, yellow, and green until it matches what Wordle showed you.
- Review remaining answers — the results panel updates automatically, showing how many solutions remain and listing every candidate word.
- Pick your next guess — check the "Best next guesses" section for entropy-ranked recommendations that eliminate the most possibilities.
- Repeat for each row — move to the next row for your second, third, and subsequent guesses. All rows combine to narrow the search.
Understanding green, yellow, and gray
Green tiles lock a letter to a specific position. If the third tile is green with the letter A, every remaining answer has A as its third letter. Greens are the strongest constraint — they permanently shrink the candidate pool.
Yellow tiles tell you a letter is in the word but not where you guessed it. If R is yellow in position two, the answer contains R somewhere other than position two. Yellows are powerful when combined with greens — for example, knowing _A_E with R somewhere outside position three eliminates large swaths of words quickly.
Gray tiles mean the letter is absent from the answer — usually. The exception is duplicate letters: if you guess ROBOT and the first O is gray but the second O is yellow, the answer contains exactly one O. Our solver counts green and yellow instances per letter before applying gray exclusions, matching official Wordle behavior exactly.
Duplicate letters explained
Duplicate letters are the number-one source of Wordle confusion. Consider guessing SPEED when the answer is ERASE. Wordle marks the first E yellow (E exists in the answer), the second E yellow (another E exists), S gray, P gray, and D gray. But if the answer were ELITE with only one E, the second E in SPEED would be gray — not yellow — because the answer has just a single E.
The rule: Wordle first assigns greens, then yellows using remaining letter counts, then grays everything else. A gray tile for letter L means "no more L slots available," not necessarily "L never appears." When you mark tiles in our solver, we apply the same min/max frequency logic so you never see ALLAY as a candidate when you grayed both L tiles without any yellow L.
Wordle strategy tips
- Open with vowel-rich words — SLATE, CRANE, STARE, and ADIEU (allowed list) test common vowels and consonants early.
- Avoid repeating gray letters — guessing letters you already eliminated wastes a turn. Use the solver's candidate list to confirm grays before your next guess.
- Use hard mode wisely — hard mode forces you to reuse greens. Our solver respects your green positions automatically, making it ideal for hard-mode analysis.
- Prioritize information over scoring — a guess that splits remaining answers 50/50 beats a guess that might hit but leaves 200 possibilities. Trust the entropy-ranked suggestions.
- Think about letter frequency — E, A, R, O, T, and I appear in more Wordle answers than Q, X, or Z. Early guesses should probe common letters.
Common mistakes
- Marking a letter gray when Wordle showed it yellow in the same guess.
- Forgetting that yellow means "not in this position" — not "not in this position only if green elsewhere."
- Using the full dictionary instead of the Wordle answer list — many obscure words are valid Scrabble plays but never appear as Wordle solutions.
- Guessing words not in the allowed list — Wordle rejects guesses outside its vocabulary even if the word is real English.
- Ignoring duplicate letter rules and wondering why the solver eliminated valid-looking words.
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Frequently asked questions
- What is a Wordle solver?
- A Wordle solver is a tool that filters the list of possible five-letter answers based on the feedback you receive after each guess. You enter your guesses and mark each letter as green (correct position), yellow (present but wrong position), or gray (absent). The solver removes every word that contradicts those clues and shows what remains.
- How do green, yellow, and gray tiles work?
- Green means the letter is correct and in the right spot — every remaining answer must have that letter in that exact position. Yellow means the letter appears in the word but not in that position. Gray means the letter is not in the word, unless you also have yellow or green instances of the same letter in the same guess (duplicate-letter rules apply).
- How does the solver handle duplicate letters?
- Wordle uses precise duplicate rules. If you guess SPEED and the first E is yellow and the second E is gray, the answer contains exactly one E — not two. If both E tiles were yellow, the answer would need at least two E letters. Our solver applies the same min/max letter counts as the official game, so you never get false positives from repeated letters.
- Which word list does this tool use?
- By default we filter the NYT Wordle answer list of roughly 2,300 curated five-letter words — the same pool used for daily Wordle solutions. You can switch to the full allowed-guess list (~13,000 words) when you want broader next-guess recommendations that include words like ADIEU or SOARE.
- What are "best next guesses"?
- After filtering, the solver ranks candidate guesses by expected information gain — how much each word would narrow the remaining answers on average. We use entropy scoring across all possible feedback patterns, then break ties with letter diversity and Scrabble letter rarity. Words like SLATE, CRANE, and TRACE typically score well early in a puzzle.
- Can I share my solver state with a link?
- Yes. As you type guesses and set tile colors, the URL updates automatically. Click "Copy share link" to share your exact grid state with a friend or continue on another device. URLs use a compact rows= encoding, and we also support legacy g/y/x parameters for quick constraint links.
- Is this cheating?
- That depends on how you use it. Many players use a solver after the fact to understand why certain words were eliminated, or to learn optimal opening strategies. Using it mid-game to guarantee a win is generally considered cheating in competitive contexts. We built this as a learning and reference tool — use it however fits your goals.
- Is the Wordle Solver free?
- Yes. The Wordle Solver is completely free with no account or download required. It runs in your browser and uses the same dictionary infrastructure as our Word Unscrambler and Pattern Finder tools.