Wordle Solver & Helper
Enter your guesses, tap the tiles to match your board, and see every word that still fits.
Then tap each tile to match its color: gray, yellow, green.
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How to use the Wordle solver
- Add a guess. Type a 5-letter word you've already guessed and press Add. It appears as a row of gray tiles.
- Match the colors. Tap each tile to cycle it from gray to yellow to green until the row looks like your game board.
- Read the list. Every word that fits all your rows is listed, with the most informative words first. Add more guesses as you play to narrow it down.
The solver searches Timed Wordle's full list of 14,947 accepted guesses, so it works as a Wordle word finder for any Wordle-style board.
Wordle strategy: good starting words
A strong opener uses five different letters that show up often in answers. Across the 1,026 different words that have been Timed Wordle answers, the most common letters are E (47%), A (40%), R (35%), T (29%), L (29%), I (29%), O (28%), S (28%), N (25%), C (20%) (share of answers containing each letter).
Answers most often start with S (16%), C (9%), B (8%), P (7%), F (7%) and end with E (19%), Y (17%), T (11%), R (9%), L (8%).
Highest-scoring openers
Scored the same way the solver ranks its list — letter frequency plus letters in their most common positions — these accepted guesses score highest:
Openers that are everyday words
Some top scorers are obscure. If you'd rather open with a familiar word, these are the best-scoring words that have themselves been Timed Wordle answers:
Solving faster
In Timed Wordle there's no six-guess limit — the clock is the score. That changes the strategy a little: an opener you can type without thinking saves seconds every day, and a quick guess that tests three new letters often beats a long pause looking for the perfect word. Once only a handful of words fit, just start trying them.
Check whether a word is an accepted guess, or if it has been an answer before, with the Wordle word checker. Browse hints and answers for past days in the Timed Wordle archive, or make your own Wordle for friends. Ready to race? Play today's Timed Wordle.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the Wordle solver work?
It checks every word in Timed Wordle's list of accepted 5-letter guesses against the rows you enter. A green tile fixes that letter in place, a yellow tile means the letter is in the word but not in that spot, and a gray tile rules the letter out. Whatever survives every row is shown.
How does it handle repeated letters?
Each row is read the way the game colors it. If a guess has two Es and only one is green or yellow while the other is gray, the answer has exactly one E. If both are yellow or green, it has at least two. A gray letter with no green or yellow copy in the same row isn't in the word at all.
Does the solver show today's Timed Wordle answer?
No. It only filters the word list using the colors you enter, so it never knows today's answer.
Can I use it for the New York Times Wordle?
The solver works on any Wordle-style board, since it only uses the colors you enter and a standard list of 5-letter words. It isn't affiliated with the New York Times and doesn't know their answers.
Why are some of the suggested words so obscure?
The list of accepted guesses includes plurals, archaic words and rare spellings, and the solver shows all of them because they're all legal guesses. Daily answers are chosen from a much smaller pool of common words, so the solver lists those common words first and the rarer valid guesses after them.
What order are the words in?
Common words that could be a daily answer come first, then the rarer valid guesses. Within each group, words are ranked by how common their letters are among the words that still fit: each distinct letter scores by how many remaining words contain it, plus how many have it in the same position. A high-scoring word is a good next guess because its colors will rule out the most possibilities.