Wordle helper
Enter each guess you have played and tap its letters to match the colours the game gave you. Every word still consistent with all of it appears below, with the most useful next guesses first.
Your guesses so far
Type a guess you have already played, then tap its letters to match the colours the game gave you: grey, yellow, green.
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What grey actually means
A grey tile does not mean the letter is absent. It means there are no more of that letter than the ones already marked in the same guess. Play speed against abide and the first E comes back yellow while the second comes back grey — there is one E, and the guess asked about two.
That distinction is where most helpers of this kind go wrong: read the grey E as “no E” and the correct answer is thrown out of the list. This one treats green and yellow tiles as a floor on how many of a letter the word holds, and a grey tile as a ceiling at exactly that number, which is the rule the game is actually using.
How the list is ordered
Every word shown is genuinely possible. They are sorted by how many of the remaining candidates share their letters, so the words near the top test the letters that still divide the field — if one of them is wrong, it usually rules out more than a word built from letters few candidates have.
That is a heuristic and not an optimal solver. A true information-gain ranking scores every permitted guess against every candidate, including words that cannot be the answer but would split the remaining set more evenly, and that is a much heavier calculation than this page does.
Why the counts differ from the game
This searches ENABLE, the public-domain list the rest of this site runs on. Wordle answers are drawn from a much smaller curated set — a few thousand ordinary words — while it accepts a wider list for guessing. So expect more candidates here than the game would ever use as an answer, especially early on, and expect some entries that are technically words but would never be set as a puzzle.
If nothing matches at all, a mis-tapped tile is far more likely than a missing word, because this dictionary is the larger of the two.
Other ways in
For a single letter you know the position of, the five-letter word lists are split by where each letter falls. For letters you hold rather than clues you have been given, use the unscrambler; for the honeycomb puzzle, the Spelling Bee solver is the one that reuses letters instead of spending them.