Wordle Solver

How to enter your guesses

Write one guess per line: the five-letter word, a space, then its five colors in order.

So crane xxgxy means C, R and N were gray, A was green and E was yellow. Results update after each complete line, and the colored tiles show how each line was read. Leave the box empty to see the best opening guesses.

How the solver works

1. Which words still fit

The solver takes each of the 8,636 five-letter words in its dictionary, pretends it is the answer, and colors your guesses against it with Wordle’s own rule. A word stays on the list only if every guess comes out with exactly the colors you entered. That handles repeated letters precisely: Wordle marks the greens first, then goes left to right and marks a letter yellow only while the answer still has an unused copy of it; any extra copies turn gray. Guess ROBOT when the answer is ROAST and you get green, green, gray, gray, green — the second O is gray because ROAST has only one O. So a letter that is gray in one spot but green or yellow in another means “exactly this many”, which the solver shows under Exact counts.

2. Which guess tells you the most

Every possible guess splits the remaining answers into groups by the colors it would show. A guess is good when the groups are small and even, because whatever colors appear, few answers are left. The solver measures this as information in bits (Shannon entropy): each bit halves the list on average, so 1 bit takes 100 answers to about 50, and 3 bits to about 12. The table also shows how many answers you can expect to be left, and Could win marks guesses that might be the answer themselves — they come first on a tie. With more than 200 possible answers, guesses are first scored against an even sample and the best 20 then against all of them, which keeps it fast on a phone.

Worked example

Say CRANE came back gray, gray, green, gray, yellow (crane xxgxy) and SLEPT gave only a yellow E (slept xxyxx). Seven words in the dictionary fit both: BEADY, HEADY, BEAKY, BEAMY, HEAVY, BAAED and BEAUX. Guessing one of them gives a 1-in-7 chance of winning at once, but the top suggestion is HUMID: it can’t be the answer, yet it colors each of the seven differently — 2.81 bits, the most possible with seven words — so you are certain to know the answer on the next turn. HEADY, the best guess that could also win, scores 2.52 bits. Enter humid gxxxx and the solver answers HEAVY.

Best first guesses for this dictionary

Scored exactly against all 8,636 five-letter words:

Vowel-heavy openers such as ADIEU and AUDIO find vowels but split the list much less evenly. TARES and LARES win partly because this dictionary is full of plurals ending in S, which Wordle rarely uses as answers — in a real game, RAISE or SLATE is the more practical start.

What the solver doesn’t know

• It doesn’t use the New York Times answer list or know today’s answer. Possible answers are all five-letter words in ENABLE, a public-domain word-game dictionary, including rare words (BAAED, TONDI) Wordle would never pick.
• Plurals are listed last. Reporting on the game’s editing (TechRadar, InsideHook) says Wordle avoids plurals ending in S or ES as answers, so words ending in a single S come after the others; the rest are ordered by how common their letters are. They are not removed, because some real answers end in S.
• New or unusual words may be missing. If nothing fits, check each color first — a mistyped tile is the usual cause.

Tips

• Playing Wordle’s hard mode, where revealed hints must be used in later guesses? Switch on hard mode here too: every suggestion is then a word that fits all your colors.
• Other word games: the word unscrambler finds every word in a set of letters, the anagram solver rearranges whole words and phrases, and the font generator styles text for your posts.

Everything runs in your browser: the five-letter word list (about 19 KB) is downloaded once, and your guesses are never sent anywhere.

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Last updated: October 15, 2026