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Enter what you know from today’s puzzle and our Wordle solver will show you every possible remaining answer. Add green letters in their confirmed positions, yellow letters with the positions they do not occupy, and grey letters to eliminate them entirely.
The solver cross-references all constraints simultaneously against the complete Wordle word list and returns your remaining candidates.
How the Colour System Works
Wordle gives you colour-coded feedback after every guess. A green tile means the letter is correct and in the right position. A yellow tile means the letter is in the word but placed incorrectly. A grey tile means the letter does not appear in the answer at all. Enter each piece of feedback into the solver and your candidate list narrows with every guess, typically to a handful of options by guess three or four.
The Opening Word Problem
Your first guess is the most consequential move in the game.
SLATE is the current recommendation of WordleBot, the New York Times’ own analysis tool, which rates it 99 out of 100 for skill.
CRANE, TRACE, CRATE, and CARTE follow closely behind. The principle behind all of them is the same. To test the highest-frequency letters in the positions where they are most likely to appear, using five entirely distinct letters to maximise the information returned from a single guess.
Vowel-heavy openers like AUDIO or ADIEU, despite being popular choices, may actually put players at a disadvantage. Words like SLATE, CRANE, and TRACE produce better average outcomes because they balance vowel coverage with high-frequency consonants rather than front-loading vowels at the expense of useful consonant information.
Hard Mode
On hard mode, every confirmed letter must be used in subsequent guesses. The best opening word in hard mode is CLASP, which sets up a narrower but still efficient path to solving the daily Wordle puzzle.
Hard mode changes the strategy significantly. You can’t play an exploratory second guess that ignores a confirmed yellow letter, which means the freedom to gather information is replaced by the requirement to act on what you already know.
The Word List
The Wordle answer list was not generated algorithmically. The creator of Wordle and his partner reviewed the full set of five-letter words in the English language and personally curated the list down to common, familiar words that most English speakers would know. The result is a word list that skews toward everyday vocabulary and avoids obscure terms, proper nouns, and plurals ending in S.
There are 2,315 possible Wordle answers and an additional 10,657 words accepted as valid guesses but never used as solutions, giving the full Wordle dictionary a total of 12,972 words.
What the Solver Is Actually For
Most people arrive at a Wordle solver in one of two situations. The first is a specific puzzle they cannot crack: two guesses in, several letters confirmed, and still no word surfacing. The solver shows the remaining candidates so the player can make an informed choice rather than guess randomly. The second is learning. Reviewing the solver’s output after a completed puzzle, and comparing it to the path you actually took, is one of the fastest ways to improve. Seeing which candidates remained after each of your guesses, and identifying the more efficient paths you could have taken, teaches pattern recognition in a way that playing the game alone does not.