Type your guess, set tile colors to match your result, and see all possible remaining words.
This Wordle helper narrows down possible words based on your guesses and the color-coded feedback from the game. Enter the letters you have guessed, mark each as green (correct position), yellow (correct letter, wrong position), or gray (not in the word), and the tool shows all remaining possible answers. It also suggests optimal next guesses that maximize information gain.
After each guess in Wordle, enter the word and color-code each letter. The tool filters the word list accordingly. Green letters are locked in position. Yellow letters must appear somewhere else. Gray letters are excluded entirely. With each guess, the list of possible words shrinks dramatically. Most puzzles can be solved in 3-4 guesses with strategic play.
Start with a vowel-heavy word: Words like CRANE, SLATE, or ADIEU test common letters quickly. Use information theory: Each guess should eliminate as many possibilities as possible. The best starting words test the most common letters (E, A, R, O, T, L, I, S, N). Avoid repeating gray letters: Once a letter is gray, do not waste a guess slot on it again. Position matters: S is common at the start and end. E is common at the end. Common patterns like _IGHT, _OUND, and _ATCH appear frequently.
Information theory provides the mathematical framework for optimal Wordle play. Each guess should maximize the expected information gained, measured in bits. Research by 3Blue1Brown (Grant Sanderson) showed that "SALET" and "CRANE" are among the mathematically optimal starting words, as they eliminate the most possible answers on average. The starting word matters less than the overall strategy: after the first guess, choosing words that maximize information based on the revealed pattern is more important.
The official Wordle answer list contains 2,309 words (as of the original New York Times version). After a first guess with all gray letters, the remaining possibilities typically drop to 100-300 words. After two well-chosen guesses, the solution space usually narrows to 5-20 words. Expert players average 3.4 to 3.6 guesses to solve, with the mathematical optimal strategy averaging approximately 3.42 guesses.
In 5-letter English words, the most common letters are E, A, R, O, T, L, I, S, N (in approximate order of frequency). The most common starting letters are S, C, B, T, P. The most common ending letters are E, Y, T, R, S. Vowel placement tends to cluster in positions 2 and 4. This is why optimal starting words typically include 3 of the top 5 vowels (E, A, O, I, U) and 2 common consonants. The Random Number Generator can help if you want to add randomness to your starting word selection.
The success of Wordle spawned dozens of variants: Dordle (2 simultaneous puzzles), Quordle (4 puzzles), Octordle (8 puzzles), and Sedecordle (16 puzzles). Nerdle applies the same concept to mathematical equations. Worldle tests geography knowledge. Heardle (now discontinued) challenged music recognition. The core mechanic of constrained guessing with color-coded feedback has proven remarkably versatile across domains. For competitive players, speed-solving Wordle in under 60 seconds requires pattern recognition skills that improve with practice. The mathematical concept of information entropy explains why some guesses are objectively better than others: the best guess is the one that, on average, eliminates the most remaining possibilities regardless of the answer.
One underappreciated Wordle strategy is "hard mode," where every subsequent guess must use all confirmed green and yellow letters. While this sounds restrictive, research shows it forces players into more informative guesses rather than "throwing away" guesses on diagnostic words. Advanced players also track letter position frequency: E is the most common letter overall, but S is the most common first letter, and E is the most common last letter in the Wordle answer list. Position-aware letter frequency analysis gives a meaningful edge over simple letter frequency alone.