Wordle Solver
Enter your Wordle guesses, set the tile colors, and instantly find all matching 5-letter words.
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How to enter your guesses
Type your first guess — on a phone with the keyboard below the board, on a computer by typing directly. Every letter starts gray. Tap any tile the game colored until it matches: one tap for green, two for yellow. Then press Enter for your next word and repeat. The keyboard mirrors what you've learned so far, dimming ruled-out letters the way the game does.
Gray letters are ruled out automatically
In the real game every letter of a guess gets feedback — there is no such thing as a letter with no answer. The solver works the same way: a letter you leave gray is treated as not in the word, with no separate step to eliminate it. That's why simply typing a guess already narrows the list.
Why yellow beats a plain "contains" filter
A yellow tile carries two facts, not one: the letter is in the word, and it is not in the position you guessed it. Both get used. Guessing STARE and seeing a yellow A rules out every word with A in the middle, which a filter that only knows the letter is present somewhere would leave in the list.
Repeated letters
Color each copy the way the game scored it and the solver reads it the way the game means it. Guess SPEED with one E yellow and one E gray, and the search asks for words with exactly one E — a gray copy beside a colored copy caps the count, which is precisely what that feedback tells you. Two colored Es ask for two.
How Wordle candidates are chosen
The helper checks five-letter entries in its general word list against every guess on the board. Green fixes a letter in place; yellow requires the letter but excludes that square; gray excludes the letter — everywhere if no copy earned a color, or beyond the colored count if one did. Everyday words appear before the remaining matches, then results are alphabetical.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does each tile color mean?
The same as in the game. Green means the letter is in the word at that exact spot. Yellow means it's in the word but somewhere else. Gray — the default for every letter you type — means the letter isn't in the word. Tap a filled tile to cycle through gray, green, and yellow.
How do I enter my second guess?
Press Enter (or tap the Enter key on the on-screen keyboard) to get a fresh row, then type the word and color its tiles. The board holds up to six guesses, just like the game, and each row keeps its own feedback.
How do I say a letter isn't in the word?
Leave it gray — that's the default for every letter you type. Gray letters are ruled out automatically, so there's nothing extra to tap. If a letter earned a color, tap its tile until it matches what the game showed.
Do I have to fill all five tiles?
No. If you only want to enter part of a guess, leave the rest blank with ?, * or the space bar on a computer, or skip past them. Blank tiles say nothing about that position; only tiles with letters constrain the search.
What if a letter appears twice in my guess?
Color each copy exactly the way the game did. If one E came back yellow and the other gray, the solver reads that as the game does: the answer has exactly one E. Two colored Es ask for two Es.
What if I know a letter is in the word but not where?
Mark it yellow on the spot you guessed it. Yellow records two things at once — the letter is in the word, and it is not in that position — which is exactly what the game's yellow tells you.
Why do results only appear when I press the button?
So the page holds still while you set up your guesses. The button shows a live count of how many words still match, and pressing it reveals the list — nothing shifts under your finger mid-edit.
Why is there a 'hide previously used answers' option?
Most Wordle answers are used once, so a word that has already been a daily answer is usually a poor guess. The optional filter draws on the real published NYT answer history and clears those candidates out of the results, which on a tight board can cut the list sharply.
Can that filter hide the actual answer?
No. Wordle does occasionally recycle an old answer, and it turns over at midnight where you are rather than in New York, so the filter is built to leave the current puzzle's answer alone in every timezone — even when that same word was already used years earlier. Everything it removes is a word that is not the answer you are looking for.
This independent helper is not affiliated with Wordle or The New York Times. Word candidates come from a general word list, ranked with an everyday-word subset first; the optional hide-previously-used-answers filter is the one part that draws on the real published NYT answer history, and it always keeps the current puzzle's answer in the results, since answers are occasionally recycled. Official accepted guesses and daily answers can differ, and names, variants, or newly accepted words may be absent.