Wordle Solver — Best Next Guess for Today's Puzzle
Enter your guesses, mark the colors, and see every word that's still possible — plus the highest-information next guess by entropy.
Type your guesses. Tap a filled tile to mark it gray (not in word), yellow (in word, wrong spot), or green (right spot).
Best next guesses
2,315 possible answers
No words match these constraints. Check for a mistyped letter or color.
What is wordle solver?
Wordle has two phases that feel completely different. Early on, your guesses are pure information-gathering: every letter you type is a probe meant to narrow the answer space, and the colors that come back are mostly news. Later — once you have two or three greens and a couple of yellows — the puzzle flips into a deduction problem: a small set of candidate words remain, you mostly know what they are, and the question is which one to guess for the highest chance of solving in the fewest tries. This solver helps with both phases without ever telling you the answer.
The candidate list is the part most players want first. After you enter your guesses with their colors, the tool shows every word from the curated Wordle answer list that’s consistent with those colors. The same letter rules Wordle uses internally apply, including the duplicate-letter rule that trips up almost every casual solver: if you guessed LLAMA and the answer is ABATE, the feedback is black, black, green, black, yellow — the third letter A is green (right position), and the trailing A is yellow (ABATE has a second A elsewhere), but both L’s are black because ABATE has no L at all. Most cheap solvers mishandle these duplicate-letter cases and show wrong candidates.
The “best next guess” panel is where information theory enters. For each remaining candidate, the tool simulates what feedback Wordle would return if you played it against every other remaining candidate, and it scores the guess by how evenly the resulting feedback patterns split the candidate set. Higher entropy means the guess learns more on average — the candidate list shrinks faster regardless of which answer is the real one. On the empty grid, the top openers cluster around 5.8 bits, meaning a single first guess narrows the answer space by about 56× on average. By guess 4, even the best remaining guess is often worth less than a bit — a sign the puzzle is mostly solved.
Two practical limits to know. First, this tool ranks among the words still in the candidate list, not among all words Wordle accepts. A strict information-theoretic optimum sometimes prefers a “probe” word that can’t itself be the answer — that’s a real but small effect, and the simpler approach here means every suggestion could also win the puzzle. Second, the answer list is the original curated set; NYT has tweaked it over time, so very rarely the day’s answer might not be in the list. If your candidate count drops to zero with confident colors, that’s a sign — try the second-most-likely candidate from the list before you marked the contradicting feedback.
Privacy, finally: every calculation runs in your browser. Your guesses, your colors, and the candidate list never leave the page. The site does carry an unobtrusive display ad slot — that’s how the tool stays free — but the ad has no access to your inputs.
When to use a wordle solver
- Stuck on guess 4 with too many options left — Enter the guesses you've already played and mark each tile's color. The candidate list narrows to only the words that match every constraint, so you can spend your remaining guesses on words that are actually still possible answers.
- Picking a strong opener — On the empty grid, the tool shows the top ten openers ranked by Shannon entropy — the words that on average split the answer space into the most equally-sized buckets. Use one if you don't have a personal favorite, or compare your usual opener against the math.
- Learning what entropy means in practice — Each suggested guess is annotated with how many bits of information it would reveal on average. The number drops sharply once your candidate list shrinks — by guess 4 a 'good' guess might only be worth half a bit. Watching that number is a quick crash course in information theory.
- Daily-puzzle assist without spoilers — The tool never tells you the answer — it only shows what's still mathematically possible given the colors you've entered. If only one candidate remains, you've already solved it; if three remain, you have a one-in-three at worst.
- Comparing your play to optimal — After you finish a puzzle (success or fail), replay your guesses in the solver. The entropy values for each row show whether your guesses were close to optimal or whether a different word would have learned more. It's the closest thing to a post-game analysis Wordle has.
How to use the Wordle Solver — Best Next Guess for Today's Puzzle
- Type your first guess into row 1 — Click the first tile and type a 5-letter word. Letters auto-uppercase and focus advances tile to tile. Use Backspace on an empty tile to fix the previous one.
- Mark each tile's color — Tap (or press Space on) each filled tile to cycle gray → yellow → green. Match the colors Wordle showed you for that guess. Partial rows are ignored, so you can leave the rest of the grid empty.
- Read the suggestions — The 'Best next guesses' panel shows up to ten openers on the empty grid, then the top five once you've entered a guess, plus how many bits of information each would reveal. The 'Possible answers' panel shows every word still consistent with your guesses.
Worked examples
After RAISE — most letters wrong
Input: Row 1: RAISE with R yellow, A black, I black, S black, E black
Output: 103 candidates remain. Top suggestion is COURT at 4.71 bits of expected information.One yellow letter narrows the field by a factor of ~22×. The next guess should reuse R in a different position and probe four fresh consonants.
After two guesses — close to the answer
Input: Row 1 RAISE → b y b b g; Row 2 PLATE → b b g g g
Output: Exactly 3 candidates remain: ABATE, AGATE, OVATE.Three greens at positions 3, 4, and 5 (A, T, E) plus one yellow A is a heavy constraint. The best next guess likely splits the remaining 1st-letter consonants.
Empty grid — picking an opener
Input: (no guesses entered)
Output: Top entropy openers around 5.88 bits — words like RAISE, SLATE, CRATE, IRATE, and TRACE.These openers all use five distinct, common letters. The exact ordering depends on the answer list, but any of the top ten is a reasonable choice.