Wordle Solver

How to use this Wordle solver

1. Add your green letters. Type any letters you've placed correctly into the matching position squares.
2. Add your yellow letters. Enter letters you know are in the word but not where you guessed them.
3. Add your grey letters. List every letter Wordle has ruled out.
4. Read the heuristic ranking. Candidates are ordered by common English letter frequency — a rough guide, not an NYT probability.

The more clues you enter, the shorter the list. After two guesses, most puzzles narrow to fewer than ten candidates.

How this solver works

The solver checks your clues against a comprehensive dictionary of five-letter English words and applies a heuristic ranking based on English letter frequency — it is not an official NYT answer probability. Wordle answers skew toward common words, so common candidates tend to sort higher, but obscure answers can appear low in the list. It also handles repeated letters correctly (a grey E when another E is green means "exactly one E", not "no E"), which is where most manual solving goes wrong.

The best Wordle starting words

A strong opener tests as many frequent letters as possible. Statistically strong first guesses include:

• SLATE — five of the most common letters in answer words, all in likely positions.
• CRANE — excellent consonant coverage plus two common vowels.
• ADIEU — tests four vowels at once; great for finding the vowel pattern early.
• ROAST — strong positional accuracy for R, S and T.
• STARE — similar coverage to SLATE with a different position profile.

There's no single "perfect" opener — the best strategy is picking one strong word and learning its typical follow-ups. If your first guess yields mostly greys, a second word with entirely new letters (e.g. SLATE then CORNY) covers ten distinct letters in two turns.

Wordle tips and strategy

Play the odds on positions

More five-letter words end in E, Y, T and R than any other letters, and S is the most common starting letter. When choosing between candidates, favour the statistically likely shape.

Watch for repeated letters

Roughly one in three Wordle answers contains a repeated letter — 748 of the 2,309 original solutions (~32%). Think LEVEL, BOOST, ERROR. If you're on guess four with no solution in sight, doubles are a live possibility.

Don't waste a guess confirming

In hard mode you must reuse known letters, but in normal mode a "probe" word made entirely of untested letters is often worth more than an immediate answer attempt when several candidates remain.

Learn the awkward families

Answer patterns like _IGHT (LIGHT, MIGHT, NIGHT, RIGHT, SIGHT, TIGHT) can burn four guesses if you test them one by one. When you spot one, use a probe word containing several of the distinguishing letters to split the family in one move.

Past answers can now repeat

Wordle began reusing past answers in February 2026 (CIGAR, the original first solution, was reused on 2 February 2026), so you can no longer rule out previous solutions — treat every valid common word as a candidate.

For a deeper dive, read our full guide: Best Wordle Strategies — from opener to endgame.

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