🟩 Wordle Solver

Enter your guesses and tap each tile gray, yellow or green to see every word that still fits — and the next guess that narrows the list fastest.

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Add each word you guessed, then tap its tiles until the colors match your game: gray → yellow → green.

Include rare words and plurals as possible answers

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What Wordle Solver Does

This Wordle solver works from the board itself. Type each five-letter word you have guessed, tap every tile until it shows the same gray, yellow or green as your game, and the tool lists every word that could still be the answer — plus the guesses most likely to narrow that list on your next turn. It never shows the day’s answer; it only reasons from the clues you give it.

Most helpers ask for “letters in the word” and “letters not in the word” in separate boxes, which breaks as soon as a guess contains a repeated letter. Here, each candidate word is kept only if guessing your word against it would produce exactly the colors you entered, scored the way the game scores: greens first, then yellows only while copies of that letter remain in the answer. A gray E beside a green E then correctly means the answer has exactly one E.

Suggestions are ranked by expected information, measured in bits: how evenly a guess would split the remaining candidates across all the color patterns it could produce. A higher number means you can expect a shorter list afterwards.

How to Use Wordle Solver

Type a five-letter word you guessed and press Add
Tap each tile until it matches the game: gray, then yellow, then green
Repeat for each guess you have made
Read the list of possible answers and the best next guesses

Formula Used by Wordle Solver

Expected information of a guess

H = −Σ p(pattern) × log₂ p(pattern)

p(pattern): Share of remaining candidates that would produce that color pattern for this guess
H: Bits of information; each bit roughly halves the expected list

Worked example

A guess that splits 64 equally likely candidates into 64 different patterns of one word each.

Each pattern has p = 1/64
H = −64 × (1/64) × log₂(1/64) = 6

Result: 6 bits — the next list would be a single word. Real guesses split unevenly and score lower.

How Repeated Letters Are Colored

Worked examples of the scoring rule this tool applies (G = green, Y = yellow, · = gray).

Guess	Answer	Colors	What it tells you
SPEED	ABIDE	· · Y · Y	Exactly one E (second E gray), and a D elsewhere
SPEED	ERASE	Y · Y Y ·	At least two E’s, neither in positions 3 or 4
EERIE	WHERE	Y · Y · G	Exactly two E’s: one at the end, the other not in position 1 or 2
BOOKS	HOBOS	Y G Y · G	Two O’s, one confirmed in position 2

Strongest Opening Words on This List

Expected information against this tool’s default answer pool (3,461 common five-letter words without simple plurals). Different word lists give slightly different rankings.

Opening word	Expected information
TALES	6.14 bits
RATES	6.13 bits
TEARS	6.08 bits
TIRES	6.05 bits
SLATE	6.04 bits

How to Read Your Result

When to guess a word that cannot win

With many candidates left, the best-scoring guess is often a word that is not itself possible but tests several unknown letters at once. The list marks those “narrows it down, cannot win this turn”. With two or three candidates left, guess one of them — you might win outright.

If the list comes up empty

Almost always a tile color was entered wrong. Check each tile against your game. If they are right, tick “Include rare words and plurals” — the answer may be outside the common-word pool.

Limitations & Accuracy Notes

It uses the open SCOWL English word list, not the game’s private answer list, so a small number of answers may be missing from the default pool or unusual words included.
Suggestions do not follow hard-mode rules; in hard mode, pick the best suggestion that uses every revealed hint.
Only the top 250 guesses by letter frequency are scored exactly each turn, so a slightly better but unusual guess can occasionally be missed.
Independent tool, not affiliated with Wordle or The New York Times.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does this tell me today’s Wordle answer?

No. It does not know the daily answer. It uses only the clues you enter — your guesses and their colors — to list the words that are still possible and suggest a guess that narrows them down. You still solve the puzzle; the tool does the bookkeeping.

How does it handle double letters?

Exactly the way the game scores them. Greens are assigned first, then yellows only up to the number of times that letter is left in the answer, and any extra copies turn gray. So a gray E in a guess that also has a green E means “exactly one E”, not “no E” — a rule most simple word filters get wrong.

What does “bits” mean in the best-guess list?

It measures how well a guess splits the remaining answers. Every extra bit roughly halves the number of words you can expect to have left after seeing its colors. A guess with 6 bits leaves, on average, about 1/64 of the current list.

What is the best Wordle starting word?

Words that combine common letters in common positions, such as SLATE, TALES, RATES and TEARS, score highest on the list this tool uses. Anything with R, S, T, L, E and A and no repeated letters is a strong opener; the difference between the top few is small.

Why isn’t my answer in the list?

The default list is common five-letter words without simple plurals, because daily puzzle answers are nearly always common words. If you have a rare word or plural in mind, tick “Include rare words and plurals”. Also double-check each tile’s color — one wrong tile removes the right answer.

Is this tool affiliated with Wordle or The New York Times?

No. It is an independent helper for five-letter word-guessing games. It uses the open SCOWL English word list, not the game’s own answer list.

References & Further Reading

SCOWL (Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists) — en-wl/wordlist on GitHub — Word list and commonness levels

By OnlineToolHubs Team • Updated September 2026