Wordle Solver

Enter each guess and set the tile colours you got. The solver lists every five-letter word that still fits, ranks them by letter frequency and suggests the guess that narrows the list the most.

How to use the Wordle Solver

1. Type the word you guessed in the game and press Add guess (or Enter).
2. Click each tile until it shows the colour the game gave you: gray, yellow or green. You can also focus a tile and press G, Y or B.
3. Read the possible answers: the list updates instantly with the most likely words first.
4. Pick a best next guess. Click it to add it to the board, play it in your game, then set its colours.
5. Repeat until one word is left. Use Clear board to start a new puzzle.

How the tile colours work

Colours are assigned in two passes: greens first, then yellows from left to right while copies of the letter are still unused in the answer. That is why guessing EERIE against the answer THREE shows the last E green, the first E yellow and the second E gray: THREE has only two E’s, the green one is matched first, and the remaining E is used up by the first yellow.

Information: what “bits” mean

A guess earns information by splitting the possible answers into groups that share the same colour pattern. If a guess splits 1,000 words into two equal groups, it gives 1 bit; splitting them into 32 equal groups gives 5 bits (2⁵ = 32). The formula is the Shannon entropy H = −Σ p × log₂(p), where p is the share of answers in each colour group. Each extra bit roughly halves the list, so a guess worth 6 bits shrinks 1,000 words to about 16.

Tips to solve in fewer guesses

• Use five different letters in your first two guesses to test as many common letters (E, A, R, O, T, L, I, S) as possible.
• Do not reuse gray letters unless you are in hard mode: a probe word with new letters often beats guessing a possible answer early.
• Watch for word families such as _IGHT or _ATCH. When many answers differ by one letter, play a word that tests several of those letters at once.
• Want to practise? Play the Word Guess Game with unlimited puzzles.

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