How the Wordle solver works
After a guess or two, Wordle gives you three kinds of clue. A green tile means the letter is correct and in the right spot. A yellow tile means the letter is in the answer but somewhere else. A gray tile means the letter isn't in the word at all. Type those clues into the boxes above and the solver filters more than 12,000 five-letter words down to only the ones that still fit — usually just a handful, ranked common words first.
Best Wordle starting words
Strong openers pack in common letters and a couple of vowels so they turn up clues fast. Click any word to learn it, then come back and enter what you found.
A quick example
Say you opened with CRANE and the C turned green, the R turned yellow, and A, N, E went gray. Put c in the first green box, type r in the yellow field, and type ane in the gray field. The solver instantly lists every remaining possibility — words like crick, cribs, or chirp — so you can pick your next guess with confidence.
A smarter Wordle strategy in three moves
The fastest solvers do not guess randomly — they treat every turn as a way to remove as many possibilities as they can. Your first guess should be about coverage, not about being right. Openers like CRANE, SLATE, and ROAST test five of the most common letters at once, which is why they usually turn up two or three colored tiles straight away. On your second guess, resist the urge to reuse the yellow letters immediately. If you still have several unknown letters, play a second "probe" word full of fresh common consonants — for example, if CRANE told you nothing about D, P, T, or L, a word like DEPOT or PLAID earns you far more information than shuffling the letters you already have.
By the third guess you usually know enough to let the solver above do the heavy lifting. Enter your greens in their exact positions, your yellows in the middle field, and every gray letter you have ruled out. The list that comes back is every valid answer that fits — and it is ranked so the more common, everyday words sit at the top, which matters because Wordle answers are almost never obscure.
Common traps that waste guesses
Two mistakes cost more turns than any other. The first is forgetting about double letters: words like MUMMY, ABBEY, and ERROR repeat a letter, and if you only ever try words with five different letters you will never land them. The second is misreading a yellow letter. Yellow means the letter is in the word but not in that square, so it also quietly tells you one position where the letter cannot go. Feed that back in and the candidate list shrinks dramatically. When you are down to a stubborn pattern such as _IGHT, remember it can be filled many ways — LIGHT, MIGHT, NIGHT, RIGHT, SIGHT, TIGHT, FIGHT, EIGHT, WIGHT — and guessing one at a time can burn every remaining turn. In spots like that, play a single word that tests several of those leading letters at once instead.
Use the solver to learn, not just to win. After a puzzle, try entering only your first two guesses and see how large the remaining pool still is. Over a week you will start to recognize which openers leave you with three candidates instead of thirty, and your unaided guessing will improve as a result.
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Frequently asked questions
- How does the Wordle solver work?
- Enter the green letters in their known positions, the yellow letters that are in the word but in the wrong spot, and the gray letters that are not in the word. The solver filters its 5-letter dictionary to show every word that still fits your clues.
- What is the best Wordle starting word?
- Strong openers use common letters and several vowels. CRANE, SLATE, RAISE, and ADIEU are all popular, well-tested starting words.
- Is this Wordle solver free?
- Completely free, with no sign-up. Everything runs in your browser, so your clues are never sent anywhere.