How to use the Wordle solver
- Type your first guess into Guess 1. Its five letters appear as tiles.
- Click each tile until it matches the game: grey for not in the word, yellow for in the word but in another spot, green for the right spot. A new row opens for your next guess.
- The words that still fit are listed below, best next guesses first. Click one to copy it, then try it in the game.
Good first guesses
A strong opening word tests common letters without repeats. With no guesses entered, the solver ranks all five-letter words this way, and words like raise, arose, arise and stare come near the top because they cover the letters that appear in the most five-letter words in its list: S, E, A, R, O, I, L and T.
Plurals and past tenses of shorter words, such as tares or baked, are listed after the other words. Daily word games rarely use them as answers, so they make poor guesses.
Using the clues well
- Green letters are fixed: only words with that letter in that spot remain.
- Yellow letters must appear somewhere else. A yellow letter also rules out its current spot, which is easy to forget when guessing in your head.
- Grey letters are gone, unless the same letter shows green or yellow elsewhere in that guess, which means the word has fewer copies than you guessed.
When only a handful of words remain, a guess that isn’t one of them can still be the smart move if it splits them apart. For example, with batch, catch, hatch, latch, match and patch left, guessing a word containing several of b, c, h, l, m and p tells you more than trying each in turn.
For other word puzzles, use the word unscrambler.
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