Wordle Helper

Type your guess in row 1. Tap each tile until its color matches what Wordle showed you — gray (not in the word), yellow (in the word but wrong spot), or green (right letter, right spot). Add more rows as you make more guesses. The list of remaining candidates appears below, with the highest-information word at the top. The duplicate-letter rule is handled correctly — if you guessed GEESE and Wordle showed green-on-the-first-E and gray-on-the-others, the helper knows the answer has exactly one E.

Built by Bob QA by Ben Shipped May 15, 2026

How to use

1
Type your guess in the first input box. Five letters, A-Z. The tiles below light up showing your letters.
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Tap each tile to cycle its color: gray → yellow → green → gray. Match what Wordle showed you. Gray means the letter is not in the answer (with one duplicate-letter caveat — see below). Yellow means it's in the answer but not at that spot. Green means right letter, right spot.
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The candidate list updates as you type and tap. The first candidate is the highest-information next guess based on standard letter frequency (E, A, R, O, T, L, I, S, N — favors words with five distinct common letters).
4
Made another guess in the actual Wordle? Add it to row 2 and color those tiles too. Each row stacks more constraints — candidates shrink.
5
Tap Copy results to paste the candidate list (top 50) somewhere. Hit Reset all to start over.
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Duplicate letters: if you guess a word with the same letter twice and one is yellow/green but another is gray, that means there are exactly that many of that letter in the answer — not zero. The helper handles this; you don't have to think about it.

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Frequently asked questions

Is this cheating?

Depends what you're after. If the streak is the whole point, then yes — using a solver breaks it. If you got stuck on a hard one, ran out of guesses, and just want to learn what word could have fit, no. We built it as a learning tool: see the candidate list shrink as constraints add up, get a feel for which letters carry the most information. Some people use it after the puzzle to see what they missed. That's the spirit.

Why doesn't today's answer appear in your list?

Two possible reasons. (1) The NYT Wordle answer pool uses some words our dictionary doesn't include — it's a curated list NYT maintains, and they sometimes pick words our 1934 Webster's source missed. (2) Our dictionary includes archaisms and uncommon-but-valid English words NYT wouldn't pick. We're a 5-letter English word filter, not a clone of NYT's specific answer list. Use the candidates as starting points, not guarantees.

How does the duplicate-letter rule work?

Wordle's coloring rule for duplicates is: greens and yellows light up the matching copies first; any leftover copies show gray. So if you guess GEESE and the answer is EVERY (one E), Wordle paints the first E green and the other two E's gray. The 'gray' here doesn't mean 'no E' — it means 'no MORE E's'. The helper does this correctly: a gray duplicate caps the letter count at the number of greens-plus-yellows in that row.

How does the helper pick the best next guess?

It scores each candidate by adding up the standard Wordle letter frequencies (E, A, R, O, T, L, I, S, N at the top) for each DISTINCT letter in the word. A word with five different common letters scores highest — it tells you the most. That's why CRANE, SLATE, CRATE, TRACE, AROSE come up high on the empty board. It's a heuristic, not entropy-optimal, but it tracks the entropy-optimal openers well enough.

What's the best Wordle starting word, then?

By our score: CRANE, SLATE, CRATE, TRACE, all in the same ballpark. Mathematician analyses that compute real entropy across the answer pool tend to favor CRANE, SLATE, or SALET as the optimal first guess. We won't pick a winner — they're within a fraction of a bit of each other, and the second guess matters more.

Why is my candidate list empty?

Three usual reasons. (1) The clues contradict each other — a green letter at one position can't be there if another row showed it gray-elsewhere, etc. Double-check the tile colors you set against what Wordle actually displayed. (2) The answer uses a word our dictionary doesn't have (see 'Why doesn't today's answer appear'). (3) You miscolored a tile — easy to do with duplicates. Try clearing the row you're least sure about and see if the list comes back.

Do you store my guesses or know what puzzle I'm playing?

No. Everything runs in your browser. The word list is bundled into the page; the filter runs locally. We don't have a server-side log of your guesses, your clues, or your results. Close the tab and it's all gone.

Will this work for the unlimited / archive / clone Wordles?

Yes — any 5-letter English word guessing game with green/yellow/gray feedback. The constraint logic is the same whether it's NYT's daily, a clone, or a hard-mode variant. The only difference is whichever site's answer pool — if a clone uses a smaller curated list, you'll see candidates we list that aren't in their pool. That's the dictionary-coverage caveat, not a bug.

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