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Enter each New York Times Wordle guess into the grid, click the tiles to match the colors, and the solver instantly filters to every word that could still be the answer. Works as a Wordle cheat sheet, helper, or 5-letter word finder — free, no login needed.
Entropy is a measure of information — specifically, how much uncertainty a guess eliminates. A high-entropy guess divides the remaining possible Wordle answers into many roughly equal groups, giving you maximum new information regardless of which color pattern comes back. A low-entropy guess might get lucky if it hits the answer, but leaves nearly as many possibilities if it misses.
The Wordle Entropy Solver scores every valid 5-letter word by its expected information gain against the remaining answer pool, then recommends the word that eliminates the most uncertainty. This is the statistically optimal move — not a popular guess, not a common word, but the word that a mathematician would choose. It uses the same approach employed by information theorists and Wordle researchers to compute the mathematically best strategy.
The simple Wordle Solver tab uses letter-frequency ranking — fast, intuitive, great for most games. Switch to the Wordle Entropy Solver tab when you want the provably optimal next guess, with a ranked list of the top 10 moves and how many answers each one would leave.
Your first guess sets the tone for the whole puzzle. The best openers cover the most common Wordle letters — E, A, R, O, T, S, I, L, N, C — using five unique letters so you get maximum information from one guess.
After your opener, switch to Letters mode in the solver to see which remaining letters appear most often in the surviving candidates — that tells you exactly which letters are worth guessing next.
Letter frequency in the Wordle answer pool drives every good strategy. The top 10 letters by frequency across all ~2,309 answers:
This is why starters like CRANE and SLATE work so well — they hit 4–5 of the top 10 letters in one guess. Avoid opening with rare letters (Q, Z, X, J) — they appear in under 2% of answers and waste a guess.
In Hard Mode (available in Wordle's settings), every subsequent guess must use all revealed information:
Hard Mode raises the average number of guesses needed because you lose the ability to use eliminator words. The solver's Hard Mode toggle filters suggestions to only words that comply with every constraint — green letters locked, yellow letters reused — exactly what Hard Mode requires.
Opening with a word containing Q, X, Z, or J wastes a guess. These letters appear in under 2% of answers. Use common letters first.
Grey means the letter is not in the word — but players often re-use grey letters in later guesses. The solver tracks all grey letters automatically.
About 12% of Wordle answers contain a repeated letter (e.g., ABBEY, SPEED). If you've exhausted common letters with no match, try doubling one.
If you have 3–4 candidates left, don't guess randomly — use the solver's Letters mode to find a word that differentiates the most remaining options.
Type your Wordle guess into the first row using your keyboard or the on-screen keyboard, then press Enter. Click each tile to cycle its color to match what today's Wordle showed you — grey means the letter isn't in the word, yellow means it's in the word but in the wrong spot, green means it's in the right position. The suggestion panel updates instantly after every color change. Enter your next guess in the following row and repeat until the solver narrows it down to the answer.
CRANE is the most widely recommended opener — it covers C, R, A, N, and E, hitting three of the five most common Wordle letters (E, A, R) in one guess. SLATE and CRATE are close runners-up. The key principle is to use five unique, common letters. Avoid starting with words that share letters (like SPEED) since you learn less from a guess with repeated letters. After your first guess, use the solver's Letters mode to see which letters appear most in the remaining candidates and choose your next guess accordingly.
Yes. The solver doesn't know today's answer in advance — it narrows down possibilities based purely on the clues you enter. The word database contains the full Wordle answer pool (~2,309 words), so whatever today's answer is, it's in the list. Enter your guesses and colors exactly as the game showed you and the solver will identify every word still consistent with your clues.
Words mode ranks the remaining candidate words by how well they cover the most common unresolved letters — the top suggestion is the word most likely to give you useful information or be the answer. Letters mode shows the most frequent individual letters across all remaining candidates, as a ranked list with percentages. Use Letters mode when you want to pick your own next guess: find a word that contains the top 2–3 letters and you'll eliminate the most possibilities. Words mode is faster; Letters mode teaches you strategy.
In Wordle Hard Mode (a setting in the official game), every guess must use all green and yellow letters you have already revealed. You cannot play a fresh probe word that ignores confirmed letters. The solver's Hard Mode toggle enforces this: it filters suggestions to only words that include every green letter in its confirmed position and every yellow letter somewhere. Hard Mode is more challenging but can occasionally lead to getting stuck — the solver helps you find legal Hard Mode guesses that still make progress.
The original Wordle answer list contained 2,309 words. The New York Times has modified this list slightly since acquiring the game in 2022, removing some words and occasionally adding others, but the pool remains around 2,300–2,350 common five-letter English words. Our solver uses this full answer pool. In addition, there are roughly 10,000+ additional five-letter words that are valid guesses (the game accepts them as input) but will never be the answer — common words like AALII or CRWTH.
Yes. Mark any letters you know are in the word as yellow (right letter, wrong position) or green (right letter, right position), and grey out letters you know are not in the word. The solver instantly shows every 5-letter word from the Wordle answer pool that matches those constraints — making it an accurate 5-letter word finder filtered to your exact clues. If you just want all 5-letter words containing a specific letter, mark that letter yellow in any position.
Zero results usually means a tile color was set incorrectly — it's easy to click one too many times and set a tile to the wrong state. Check each row carefully. A common mistake is setting a repeated letter: if the answer has only one E and your guess has two, one E will be green/yellow and the other grey — both colors are correct and the solver handles this, but only if you set them accurately. Click Reset to start over if you can't find the error.