Wordle Solver

How to Use the Wordle Solver

The trick is translating Wordle's colors into the search tools above. The mapping:

• Known letters (greens and yellows) go into the search box as your letters; fill the unknown slots with question-mark wildcards, up to two.
• A green at the start or end of the word goes into the "Starts with" or "Ends with" filter.
• Greens and yellows elsewhere go into the "Contains letters" filter, so every result includes them.
• Grays go into the "Exclude letters" filter, striking every word that uses a letter Wordle has ruled out.
• Then scroll to the five-letter results — that's your candidate list.

A worked example. Two guesses in, you know R is green in the second position, E and T are yellow, and a handful of grays are dead. Enter T, R, E plus two wildcards, exclude the grays, and the five-letter results come back — say TIGER, TRIBE, and WRITE. Now apply the one thing the filters can't: position knowledge. R must sit second, so TIGER (R fifth) is out by eye, leaving TRIBE and WRITE — and your yellow history for E and T usually breaks that tie. Filters shrink the ocean to a puddle; the last step of Wordle deduction stays yours.

One honest note on timing: because wildcards cap at two, the solver works best from the second guess onward, once three or more letters are known. That's not a bug in the workflow — the opening guess is where strategy lives anyway (see the tips below), and the solver's job is the endgame, where a wrong guess costs the streak.

What Is Wordle?

Wordle is the New York Times' daily five-letter puzzle: one word per day, the same for every player worldwide, six guesses to find it. After each guess, every letter comes back color-coded — green for right letter in the right spot, yellow for right letter in the wrong spot, gray for not in the word at all — and those clues compound across guesses until the word falls or the six attempts run out. The daily reset, the tracked streak, and the spoiler-free shareable grid are what turned a simple deduction game into a morning ritual; the streak is also why guess six feels the way it does.

Wordle Tips That Actually Move the Odds

Open with coverage, not hope. A strong starter mixes distinct common vowels with R, S, T, L, or N — the goal of guess one is information, not a lucky hit.

Respect duplicates. Words with repeated letters (those double-letter traps) end more streaks than rare words do. A confirmed green can appear again elsewhere — the colors won't warn you.

Spend a guess to save two. When several candidates differ by one or two letters, guessing a word that tests those letters — even one you know is wrong — beats burning attempts on near-misses one at a time.

Think in patterns, not letters. Common frames like -IGHT, -OUND, and TH-/CH-/SH- openings collapse the search space faster than letter-by-letter reasoning, especially from guess three onward.

Use help as a dial, not a switch. Today's answer is one search away on any spoiler site — but that ends the game rather than winning it. The solver's middle path is deliberately adjustable: pull a candidate list and pick by deduction, or just confirm which letters remain live, or gift yourself one filter's worth of clarity and play on. Wordle is solo and the streak is yours; so is the choice of how much machine to let in.