Wordle Solver & Helper - Filter Possible Words

How to use this tool

1. Enter green letters in the pattern and use ? for unknown positions.
2. Enter every yellow tile in the Yellow letters bag, including repeated copies.
3. Mark each yellow letter in the field for the position where it appeared.
4. Enter grey letters. A grey duplicate caps a confirmed green/yellow count.
5. Choose Answers or All valid guesses; matching words update as you edit clues.

How to use the Wordle helper

Put confirmed green letters in the five-slot pattern and use ? for unknown positions. Enter each yellow tile in the Yellow letters field, including repeated copies, then mark the slot where each yellow appeared. Grey letters are entered separately. The helper filters as you type, and all clue matching happens in your browser.

Choose a candidate list

Answers uses a historical community mirror containing 2,315 answer candidates. All valid guesses searches a broader 12,972-word list that includes those answers and words accepted as guesses in the same original snapshot. The mirror attributes these lists to the wordle-words npm package (MIT). They are static historical data, not a live connection to the New York Times game, and the current Wordle vocabulary may differ. Toolcroft is not affiliated with The New York Times or Wordle.

The smaller answer list is useful when you want likely solutions only. Choose All valid guesses when you want to include probe words that may be accepted as guesses but are not in that answer-candidate set. Neither choice looks up the current daily answer, and a matching word is only a candidate under the selected historical list and the clues you entered.

Track yellow and grey letters carefully

A yellow letter must appear somewhere in the word and must not occupy any position marked for it. For example, if A is yellow in position 2, a candidate can contain A in another slot but not in slot 2. The per-position fields record that exclusion; the Yellow letters field records the number of yellow copies. If you enter the same yellow in both places, the helper combines those descriptions without counting the clue twice.

Repeated feedback matters. If a guess produces two yellow E tiles, enter ee in Yellow letters and mark both tried positions; candidates must contain at least two Es, away from both marked slots. If another E tile is grey while an E is green or yellow elsewhere, add E to Grey letters too. The confirmed green/yellow count becomes the maximum allowed count. A grey-only letter is excluded entirely. If a letter is marked both green and yellow in the same slot, the clues conflict and the helper shows no matches until corrected.

Wordle strategy tips

Start with a word that tests several common letters, such as CRANE, SLATE, or ARISE, then use the color feedback to remove impossible candidates. Your next guess can test letters that are still unknown. The helper lists matching words but does not rank them or recommend an opener.

Information theory and Hard Mode

Each Wordle guess provides information: its green, yellow, and grey feedback divides the candidate set into groups. A guess that tends to split possible answers into balanced groups can reveal more, on average. That idea explains why opener strategies compare letter coverage and expected information, but this helper does not calculate entropy or rank probe guesses.

Hard Mode asks players to reuse revealed clues in every guess. The -IGHT family (MIGHT, NIGHT, FIGHT, LIGHT, SIGHT) illustrates why this can make a late game harder: a normal-mode probe such as FILMS could test alternatives, while Hard Mode keeps the guess within the known pattern. This helper explains the trade-off but does not enforce Hard Mode or filter guesses for it.

Letter frequency reference

E, A, R, O, T, L, I, S, N, and C are common in many English word lists, while Q, Z, X, J, and V occur less often. These are broad heuristics, not a ranking produced from your remaining candidates. Actual useful letters depend on the selected list and the clues already revealed.