Wordle Solver
Type each guess, press its tiles to match the colors the game showed, and see every word that is still possible — with the best next guesses ranked by letter coverage or by how finely they split what remains. Repeated letters are scored exactly as the game scores them. Everything runs in your browser. Free, no sign-up.
Type each guess, then press its tiles to match the colors the game showed: gray, yellow, green.
Words come from ENABLE, a public-domain word-game list. It is not the list the game uses, so the answer may be missing and rare words may appear — favor the familiar ones.
How to Use the Wordle Solver
- Type your guess. Enter the word you played in the first row. Its letters appear as tiles.
- Match the colors. Press a tile to cycle it from gray to yellow to green, copying what the game showed you. Gray is the starting color, so you only need to press the yellow and green ones.
- Add more guesses. Use Add a guess for each further row. The list shrinks after every complete row.
- Pick your next word. The table ranks the words that still fit. Sort by letter frequency for a quick pick, or by best split to see which guess leaves the fewest words in the worst case.
How the Solver Reads Your Clues
The solver does not translate colors into rules such as "E is not in position 3". It does what the game does: it scores your guess against a possible answer and keeps that answer only if the colors match what you entered. Every word on the list takes that test against every guess you have given, so a word survives only when it would have produced exactly your tiles.
That matters most with repeated letters. The game marks greens first, then gives each remaining guess letter a yellow only while the answer still has an unmatched copy of it, working left to right. A gray tile on a repeated letter therefore means "no more copies", not "this letter is absent". Simplified solvers that treat every gray as a ban throw away correct answers; this one cannot.
| Guess | Answer | Tiles | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| allee | apple | A green, L yellow, L gray, E gray, E green | Apple has one L, so only the first L in the guess can be yellow. |
| speed | abide | S gray, P gray, E yellow, E gray, D yellow | Abide has one E; the first E takes the yellow and the second finds no spare copy. |
| llama | plain | L gray, L green, A green, M gray, A gray | The green L uses plain's only L, so the earlier L is gray, and the second A has no copy left. |
A Worked Example
Say the answer is light. You open with raise, and the game shows one yellow tile: the I. Of the 8,629 five-letter words on the list, 310 give exactly that pattern. You then play clout, which comes back with L yellow and T green. Only two words are left: light and limit. Press Try an example to load this game and watch the list shrink.
After raise alone, the solver's letter-frequency pick is linty and its best-split pick is also linty, which leaves an average of about 13 words and never more than 26. It is a rare word, and that is worth noticing: the ranking knows letters, not which words a puzzle setter would choose. Treat the table as a shortlist and pick the entry you would recognize.
Two Ways to Rank the Next Guess
- Letter frequency. Each letter is weighted by how many remaining words contain it, and a word scores the sum over its distinct letters. A repeated letter counts once, because a second copy tells you little. It is fast and works on any list size.
- Best split. For every candidate guess, the solver scores it against every possible answer and groups the answers by the tiles they would show. A good guess breaks the list into many small groups. The table shows the average number of words left and the largest group. It compares every word with every other, so it switches on at 500 words or fewer.
A limit of the suggestions
Both rankings suggest only words that could be the answer. When a long family such as -atch is left (batch, catch, hatch, latch, match, patch, watch), a guess that is not itself a candidate but tests several first letters at once can finish faster. The solver does not suggest those, so look for the pattern yourself.
About the Word List
The solver uses ENABLE, a public-domain word-game list that CitationEasy also uses for its Anagram Solver. It holds 8,629 five-letter words. That is not the list Wordle itself draws from: the game keeps a smaller, curated set of answers and a longer set of allowed guesses, and neither is published for reuse here. So the real answer can be missing from ENABLE, and ENABLE contains many obscure words — plurals, verb forms, and technical terms — that the game would never pick. If the solver reports that nothing fits and your tiles are right, the answer is probably a word ENABLE lacks.
This tool is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the owner of Wordle. Word lengths from 4 to 8 letters are included for the many Wordle-style games that use them.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How does a Wordle solver work?
- It keeps a list of possible words and removes every word that could not have produced the tiles you saw. This solver does that by replaying the game's own scoring: a word stays only if scoring each of your guesses against it gives back your colors. What is left is ranked so you can choose a good next guess.
- How are repeated letters handled?
- Exactly as in the game. Green tiles are assigned first; then a letter is yellow only while the answer still has an unmatched copy of it. So a gray tile on a second E means the answer has no further E, not that E is missing altogether. The table above shows three cases.
- What is the best starting word?
- No single word is best, because it depends on the word list and on what you want to optimize. By raw letter coverage across this list, arose, arise, and raise come out on top. Words that use five different common letters, including several vowels, give the most information on the first turn.
- Does it work with Hard Mode?
- Yes. Hard Mode requires every revealed hint to be used in later guesses, and the words this solver lists are exactly the ones consistent with all your clues. Any word in the list is a legal Hard Mode guess, though the game's own allowed-word list may be stricter.
- Why does it say no word fits?
- Either a tile is the wrong color, a letter was mistyped, or the answer is not in the ENABLE list. Check each tile against the game first. A common slip is leaving a repeated letter's gray tile gray when the game showed it yellow.
- Is this the same list Wordle uses?
- No. ENABLE is a general word-game list. It includes many rare words the game never picks, and it may lack a few words the game accepts. Use the ranking as a shortlist and choose a word you would expect a puzzle to contain.
- Can I use it for games with 4, 6, 7, or 8 letters?
- Yes. Choose the word length first, and the rows adjust. Selecting a new length clears the rows, because tiles from one length do not carry over to another.