Wordle Solver
Enter your guesses and the colours Wordle gave you. We show every answer still possible, and which guess narrows it down fastest.
Enter your guesses
Type each guess, then click a tile’s colour button (or press Space on the tile) to cycle grey → yellow → green to match what Wordle showed you.
How the ranking works
For each candidate guess we work out the feedback pattern it would produce against every answer still in play, then group the answers by that pattern. A guess that scatters the remaining answers across many small groups tells you far more than one that lumps them into a single big group — that is what the bits figure measures.
We search 2,315 possible answers and 12,972 allowed guesses. While plenty of answers remain we rank only words that could still win; once the field narrows we widen the search to every allowed guess, because a throwaway probe word often beats a lucky one-in-three guess.
Repeated letters, handled correctly
Repeated letters are where most solvers go wrong. If you guess ERASE and the answer has a single E, Wordle marks the E in the right position green and leaves the other grey — it does not mark both. We reproduce that rule exactly, so a grey tile on a repeated letter narrows the list instead of emptying it.
Frequently asked questions
How does the Wordle solver work?
It filters the list of 2,315 possible Wordle answers down to the ones consistent with every tile colour you have entered, handling repeated letters the same way the game does. It then ranks candidate guesses by expected information gain.
What does 'bits' mean next to each suggestion?
Bits measure how much a guess is expected to narrow the field. Each bit roughly halves the number of remaining answers, so a guess worth 5 bits cuts about 32 candidates down to 1. The top-ranked guess is the one that learns the most, on average.
Why does it sometimes suggest a word that cannot be the answer?
When only a few candidates remain and they differ by a single letter, a 'probe' word that is not itself a possible answer can distinguish between them in one guess rather than risking several. The solver switches to the full guess list once the field is small enough for that to matter.
Is this cheating?
That is up to you. Most people use it after they are stuck, or to review afterwards which guess would have been strongest. It is a good way to learn why some opening words perform much better than others.