Wordle Solver
Type your guesses, click each tile to set its color, and instantly see every word that still fits.
How to Use the Wordle Solver — Step by Step
Reproduce your Wordle guesses on the board above. Type each letter into the tiles, then click a tile to cycle through its color: grey (absent) → yellow (present) → green (correct). The solver updates the word list instantly.
The Letter Tracker shows all letters you've tested and their highest-known state at a glance — useful when you have several guesses in and need to remember what's been ruled out. For other word puzzles, try the word descrambler to unscramble jumbled letters.
Best Starting Words
A strong opener uses five different high-frequency letters. These words cover the most common letters in 5-letter English words (E, A, R, O, T, L, I, S, N):
Strategy Tips
Use all 5 unique letters
A guess with 5 different letters gives you 5 data points. Avoid double letters in your first two guesses.
Re-use yellow letters
A yellow letter must appear somewhere in the answer. On your next guess, place it in a different position.
Watch for common endings
Many Wordle answers end in -ER, -ED, -LY, -NT, or -AL. Keeping this in mind can guide your guesses.
Hard Mode narrows fast
In Hard Mode, you must use confirmed letters in every guess. This is actually a good strategy even in normal mode.
How the Solver Works
The solver filters the ENABLE word list (Enhanced North American Benchmark Lexicon), taking its 8,636 five-letter entries and narrowing them with the constraints you provide. For each guess row:
- ■ Green tiles require the answer to have that exact letter at that exact position.
- ■ Yellow tiles require the letter to appear somewhere in the answer, but not at that position.
- ■ Grey tiles eliminate that letter entirely (unless it also appears green or yellow in the same guess, which handles repeated-letter words).
Results marked with a green border are "best-pick" candidates — words with no repeated letters, meaning they reveal maximum information for your next guess. The anagram solver uses a larger word list (CSW24) to find all words from a given set of letters.
Worked Example
Guess 1: CRANE → C grey, R yellow (wrong position 2), A green (position 3), N grey, E grey. Guess 2: RIALS → applying constraints (A at pos 3, R somewhere but not pos 2, no C/N/E) leaves ~30 candidates. Best-pick suggestion: DRAFT (no repeated letters, R at pos 2 excluded). After 2 guesses the solver typically reduces ~8,600 words to under 50 candidates — enter your own game state to find the word.
How Wordle works
Wordle gives you six attempts to guess a hidden 5-letter word. After each guess, tiles turn green (correct letter, correct position), yellow (correct letter, wrong position), or grey (letter not in the word). The challenge is to use each result to eliminate possibilities — every guess should narrow the remaining candidate words as much as possible.
Best opening words
A good first guess uses common letters in common positions. CRANE, RAISE, SLATE, STARE, and AUDIO are frequently recommended because they cover five of the most frequent letters (A, E, R, S, T) or maximise vowel coverage. Avoid starting with words using rare letters like Q, J, X, or Z — they appear in very few 5-letter words and waste a guess.
Reading the colour feedback
Green letters are confirmed — keep them in the same position. Yellow letters are present but misplaced — use them in a different position next guess. Grey letters are absent — eliminate words containing that letter. Multiple instances of the same letter are possible: if you guess ABBEY and only one B turns yellow, the word has exactly one B.
Hard mode strategy
In Hard Mode, every subsequent guess must use all confirmed (green) and present (yellow) letters. This restricts your options but forces efficient play. A common pitfall is placing a known-yellow letter in the same position again. Use the solver after each guess to see remaining valid candidates — it becomes most powerful once three or more letters are confirmed.
Evidence & Methodology
How This Page Is Grounded
Method
Filters five-letter entries from the bundled ENABLE list using the confirmed, present and absent letter constraints.
Important limitation: ENABLE is a broad public-domain word list, not the official New York Times answer list, so some candidates may not be accepted by the game.
Primary Sources
- ENABLE public-domain word-list notes ENABLE word-list project
Quality Checks
Repeated-letter constraints, conflicting clues and empty-result cases are checked.
See how sources are selected and corrections are handled in our Editorial & Calculation Methodology, and which automated checks this page has to pass in How We Test.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I use the Wordle solver?
Reproduce your Wordle guesses on the board, then click each tile to cycle its colour — grey (letter absent), yellow (letter present but wrong position), green (correct position and letter). The solver filters the remaining valid words instantly as you update the tiles.
What is the best starting word for Wordle?
Strong opening words use five different high-frequency letters from the most common in English 5-letter words (E, A, R, O, T, L, I, S, N). Top choices include CRANE, SLATE, RAISE, STARE, and TRACE — the Wordle solver's guide lists the 10 best starters.
How does the Wordle solver find valid answers?
The solver filters a dictionary of around 8,600 five-letter English words using your colour constraints — green tiles fix a letter at an exact position, yellow tiles require a letter to appear elsewhere in the answer, and grey tiles eliminate a letter entirely. Only words satisfying all constraints are shown.