Wordle Solver
Enter your guesses, set the colors, and find every possible answer instantly.
Type a letter, then click a tile to cycle its color
About This Wordle Word Finder
This Wordle solver works as a word finder and helper: enter the letters from your actual guesses, mark each tile the color Wordle gave you, and the tool filters a 186,000-word dictionary to every five-letter word that could still be the answer. Green tiles lock a letter to its position. Yellow tiles require the letter to appear somewhere else in the word. Gray tiles eliminate the letter entirely. The solver applies all constraints simultaneously and only shows words that satisfy every clue at once.
Add up to six guess rows — one per actual guess — to progressively narrow the field. After two or three guesses with good opener words, the results list usually drops to a handful of candidates. That's when the tool is most useful: you've done the hard work of collecting information, and the solver handles the constraint intersection that's easy to get wrong in your head after three minutes of staring at colored tiles.
Results include valid English words beyond the NYT's curated answer list. The correct answer will always be in the results — it just might be accompanied by some words that are technically valid but that the NYT would never use on a Tuesday morning. Narrow by entering more guesses if you need to reduce the list further.
Best Wordle Opening Words
The strongest first guesses test the most common letters in five-letter English words simultaneously. A good opener has no repeated letters and covers multiple vowels alongside the highest-frequency consonants — R, S, T, N, L. These five are well-regarded by information theory and casual players alike:
None of these is objectively optimal for every puzzle — the best opener is the one you remember to use. Pick one and stick with it. Consistency beats optimization in a six-guess game.
Using This Solver on Hard Mode
Wordle hard mode requires you to use every confirmed letter in each subsequent guess — any green or yellow letter from a previous guess must appear in your next one. This solver works correctly for hard mode: enter your actual guesses with their actual constraints, and the results will only include words that reuse your confirmed letters in valid positions.
Hard mode makes the solver more useful, not less. The additional constraint that you must use your confirmed letters means results narrow down significantly after the first two guesses. The downside of hard mode — the occasional situation where three valid words remain and you have one guess left — is not something the solver can fix. That's a game design choice by the NYT to make the last guess genuinely uncertain. What the solver can do is get you to the final two or three candidates as efficiently as possible.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How do I use the Wordle Solver?
Type each letter from your actual Wordle guess into the row of tiles. Then click any tile to cycle its color: green for right letter in the right spot, yellow for right letter in the wrong spot, gray to eliminate. The click-to-cycle behavior is intentional — it's faster than a dropdown and maps directly to what Wordle shows you. Add more rows for each guess you've made, then hit Solve. The tool handles the constraint tracking; you handle the actual guessing.
What do the tile colors mean?
Green locks a letter into its exact position. Yellow means the letter is in the word but you placed it in the wrong spot — the solver will find words that contain it, just not at that position. Gray eliminates the letter from the answer entirely. This is the same color system the NYT Wordle uses, which means you can read your game screen and enter it here without translating anything. One of the few cases where the original design choices made an external tool easier to build.
Can I enter multiple guesses?
Yes — click "Add Another Guess" to add up to six rows, one for each guess you've made. The solver combines constraints from every row simultaneously and only returns words that satisfy all of them at once. This is where the tool earns its keep: manually tracking which letters are ruled out across four guesses is where most people go wrong. The solver does that accounting automatically. You don't have to trust your own process of elimination. That's the whole point.
Why are some words not in the results?
The official NYT Wordle answer list is a curated set of common English words — not every word in the dictionary. Our solver uses a broader dictionary, so results include valid words that aren't on the NYT's list. The correct answer will always be in here. It just might be accompanied by THEGN and ROWTH and YIRDS, which are technically valid but statistically unlikely to be what the NYT chose for Tuesday morning.
What is the best opening word for Wordle?
CRANE, SLATE, RAISE, STARE, and ARISE are statistically well-regarded because they test the most common letters in five-letter English words — covering the main vowels alongside R, S, T, N, and L. Any of these will give you strong first-guess information. I use CRANE. I will defend this position indefinitely and without new evidence. The data supports it and so do I.
Does this work for Wordle hard mode?
Yes, and it's especially useful there. Hard mode requires you to use confirmed letters in every subsequent guess — any green or yellow letter must appear in your next guess. Enter each guess row with its actual constraints and the solver will only show words that reuse your confirmed letters correctly. Hard mode narrows the field faster than normal mode, which means the solver converges on the answer in fewer clicks. The tradeoff is that hard mode occasionally backs you into a corner with one guess left and four valid words still on the board, and that is between you and the puzzle.
How does the word finder for Wordle work technically?
It filters a 186,000-word dictionary using your constraints simultaneously: green tiles fix letters to exact positions, yellow tiles require letters to appear somewhere (but not at the yellow position), and gray tiles eliminate letters entirely. Words that satisfy every single constraint appear in the results. The logic mirrors how a skilled human player narrows down possibilities — just faster and without the risk of forgetting that you already ruled out the letter E in guess two.