WordHintly Wordle & word game solver

Every word still possible, best one first

Type the guesses you have already made, tap each tile to set its colour, and the list narrows as you go. Everyday words come first, so you are not scrolling past zibet to find slate.

Word length

Your guesses

Type a guess — the cursor moves along by itself. Then click a letter to cycle it grey → yellow → green, or press space on the tile you are on. Grey means the letter is not in the word, yellow means it is there but somewhere else, green means it sits exactly there.

Best next guess

by how much it narrows the field

Fill in a guess above and this will work out which word cuts the remaining possibilities down the most — including words that cannot be the answer themselves but tell you the most about it.

Extra filters

optional
Underscore for unknown letters, e.g. _r__e for crane, drone, prose.
Letters that appear somewhere, position unknown.
Letters you have ruled out entirely.

Possible words

everyday word valid but uncommon

Or start from a word list

Wordle hints & best starting words All word lists (3–11 letters) Starting with S Ending in Y A as the third letter Starting with TR

How to use this solver

The colours mean exactly what they mean in the game. A grey letter is not in the answer at all. A yellow letter is in the answer but not in that position. A green letter is in that exact position. Set them the same way you see them on your own board and the list on the right only ever contains words that fit all of your guesses at once.

Repeated letters are handled properly, which is where most solvers go wrong. If you guess ERROR and the answer is OTHER, the game marks only one of those Rs — this solver reproduces that rule exactly rather than approximating it, so a word is never wrongly kept or wrongly dropped.

Why the order matters

A five-letter dictionary holds well over six thousand words, and the vast majority of them will never be a puzzle answer. Sorting alphabetically buries the words you actually want. Here the list is ordered by how ordinary a word is, and everyday vocabulary is marked, so the plausible answers sit at the top where you can see them.

What "best next guess" is doing

For each word it could suggest, it works out how the remaining candidates would split up across every colour pattern that word could produce, then picks the word that leaves the smallest group behind on average. Sometimes the best move is a word that cannot be the answer — it just separates the candidates more cleanly. That is why the suggestion occasionally looks odd, and why it usually saves you a turn.

Other word games

Switch the word length at the top for anagram and crossword work: three to eleven letters are covered. The pattern box takes a partial answer straight from a crossword grid, and the two letter boxes below it handle the "contains these, none of those" case you get from a half-finished puzzle.

Frequently asked

Does this work offline?

Yes. Everything runs in your browser and the dictionary ships with the page, so nothing you type is sent anywhere. Opening the file directly from your computer works the same as opening it from a server.

Which dictionary is this?

The word list is built from the en_US Hunspell dictionary, which derives from Kevin Atkinson's SCOWL. It is not any game publisher's official tournament word list, so a word occasionally differs from what a particular game accepts.

Why is a word missing?

Proper nouns, abbreviations and hyphenated forms are deliberately left out. If a plain word is missing, it is a gap in the underlying dictionary rather than a filter — see the notes in the project README for how to swap in a different word list.