Wordle® Solver
Narrow today's answer from your green/yellow/gray guesses.
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Type your 5-letter guess, then tap each tile to match its real Wordle® color (tap cycles gray → yellow → green), and add it — repeat for every guess you've made so far.
How it works
After each Wordle® guess you get three signals per letter: green means that letter is correct and in that exact position, yellow means the letter is in the answer but in a different position, and gray means the letter isn't in the answer at all (unless it's a repeated letter already accounted for elsewhere in your guess). Enter your guesses with their color results and the solver applies all three as constraints simultaneously against the list of valid five-letter words, filtering down to only the words consistent with everything you've learned so far.
Constraint filtering works letter-by-letter: a green at position 3 requires every remaining candidate to have that exact letter at position 3; a yellow for a letter requires the candidate to contain that letter somewhere, but specifically not at the position you guessed it in; a gray removes candidates containing that letter at all (with careful handling for words with duplicate letters, since Wordle®'s own color logic accounts for how many of a repeated letter are actually in the answer before marking the rest gray).
For choosing your next guess, the solver leans on letter-frequency analysis: among the words still consistent with your constraints, it favors guesses containing the letters that appear most often across the remaining candidate pool, and spread across as many different positions as possible — this maximizes the amount of new information a single guess can return, rather than guessing a word that happens to look plausible but tests redundant information.
The first-guess question comes up constantly, and the honest answer is that no single starting word is mathematically "best" for every possible answer — but words rich in common letters (E, A, R, O, T, S, and vowels generally) in varied positions consistently perform well across thousands of simulated Wordle® answers, which is why words like CRANE, SLATE, and ADIEU are frequently recommended starting points.
Tips & strategy
Use your first two guesses to gather information, not to guess the answer
A strong opening strategy treats guesses 1 and 2 as information-gathering moves — picking words that test common, varied letters rather than words you suspect might already be the answer — then switches to solving once you have several colored tiles to work with.
Don't discard a letter's position too early on duplicates
If a guess has a repeated letter and Wordle® marks one occurrence yellow and one gray, that specifically means the answer contains exactly one of that letter (not zero) — feed both results into the solver rather than assuming the gray one means the letter's fully excluded.
Favor guesses that split the remaining candidates evenly
Once you're down to a handful of candidates, the ideal next guess isn't necessarily one of the remaining candidate words themselves — a word that tests untested common letters can split a large remaining pool more efficiently than guessing a candidate outright, even though a candidate guess has a chance of being correct.
Watch for words sharing a common ending
Late-game ties often come down to words sharing four of five letters (like ROUND, POUND, SOUND, MOUND) — when this happens, a guess that specifically tests the differing letter, even in a word that can't itself be the answer, resolves the game in one more guess instead of leaving it to a lucky pick.
FAQ
Is there one best Wordle® starting word?
No single word is provably optimal for every possible answer, but a handful of frequent-letter openers (CRANE, SLATE, ADIEU, AUDIO among the commonly cited ones) consistently perform well across simulation of the full answer list, since they're built from letters that appear disproportionately often in five-letter English words.
How does the solver handle a letter that appears twice in my guess?
It follows Wordle®'s own duplicate-letter rule: if a letter appears twice in your guess and only one occurrence is in the answer, Wordle® marks one tile (usually the leftmost matching position) yellow or green and the other gray — the solver reads both signals together rather than treating the gray tile as a full exclusion of that letter.
Is this affiliated with the New York Times or the original Wordle®?
No — SnagWord's Wordle® Solver is an independent, unofficial tool built for fans of the game. Wordle® is a trademark of The New York Times Company, which has no business relationship with SnagWord; see the disclaimer page for the full notice.
Does the solver work for Wordle® variants like Quordle or Absurdle?
It's built and tuned for standard five-letter, six-guess Wordle®. The same green/yellow/gray constraint logic applies conceptually to most variants, but word-length and multi-board mechanics in variants aren't accounted for in this version.