Wordle Solver
One row is enough: type the guess, tap each tile until it matches the colour Wordle gave you, and the list shrinks to the words that still fit.
What the colours mean, precisely
Wordle's three states are not "letter in the word" and "letter not in the word". They are about copies:
- Green — that letter belongs in that position. It also counts as one copy of the letter for this guess.
- Yellow — the letter is in the word, but not in that position. Counts as one copy.
- Grey — there are no more copies of that letter than the green and yellow tiles in the same guess already account for.
The grey rule is where most simple solvers go wrong. Guess SPEED against an answer with a single E: the game marks one E yellow, the other grey. A solver that treats grey as "E is not in the word" throws away the answer. This one records the green and yellow count first, so grey means "at most that many", which is exactly what the game is telling you.
Worked example
Guess SLATE. The game returns S grey, L grey, A green in position 3, T grey, E grey. That single row cuts 8,636 five-letter words down to 112. Among them:
- again
- award
- board
- braid
- brain
- brand
- bravo
- brawn
- chain
- chair
- coach
- crack
- crank
- crazy
- diary
- drain
- drama
- drank
Every one of them has A in the third position and contains none of S, L, T or E. The rest of the list is longer and includes rarer words — that is the dictionary being complete rather than curated.
When you add the second guess, the list shrinks fast. A useful second guess is one that tests the common letters still possible (R, N, D, C) rather than repeating what you already know.
Why unfamiliar words appear
The candidate list comes from a general English dictionary of 152,405 words, not from the game's private answer list. So a valid but obscure word shows up alongside the common ones. This is deliberate: filtering to "words people would guess" would also hide the real answer if it happens to be uncommon.
Two consequences worth knowing:
- The real answer is almost always in the list, but it is not necessarily near the top. Read the whole list, not the first line.
- A small number of guesses the game accepts may be missing here, because dictionaries disagree about rare words. That affects what you can guess, not usually what you can answer.
Playing better, not just solving
- Two opening guesses beat one. Twenty-six letters cannot be covered in five tiles; two well-chosen words test ten distinct letters. That is the main source of early information.
- Avoid repeating greens in the next guess unless the word is nearly solved — a known letter in a known place teaches nothing new.
- Prefer common consonants (R, S, T, L, N, C, D) over rare ones (J, Q, X, Z) until the list is small.
- Use the count. When the list drops below about ten, guessing in order of likelihood beats information gathering.
Questions
Can I enter more than one guess?
Yes — press Add another guess for each row. All rows are applied together, so the second guess narrows the list produced by the first. Two rows is usually enough; a third rarely changes anything unless the list is still long.
Why does the list not shrink after my guess?
Check that the letters were typed in the same order as the guess, and that every grey letter is set to Absent. One tile left on the default colour removes that letter from every position, which usually widens the list rather than narrowing it.
Does it know today's answer?
No. It filters a static word list; there is no connection to the game, no daily answer, and no account. Everything runs in your browser.