Exact feedback matching
Every candidate is replayed against each guess using a two-pass green-then-yellow algorithm. This is important for repeated letters: a gray copy does not incorrectly ban a letter when another copy is yellow or green.
WORD PUZZLES · FIVE LETTERS · STRATEGY
Wordle Solver turn tile feedback into the next smart guess
Type the guess you played, tap each tile until its color matches your puzzle, and instantly narrow the five-letter field. Duplicate letters are handled with the same two-pass feedback logic used by Wordle-style games.
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8.6kguess words
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ADD YOUR LATEST GUESS
Match the five clue tiles
Gray = absent, yellow = present elsewhere, green = correct position. Tap a tile to cycle its state.
Type 5 letters · click a tile: gray → yellow → green
GrayYellowGreen
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Best next guesses
Strong openers until you add feedback.
POSSIBLE ANSWERS
Candidate list
Strategy Labturn-by-turn information gain, probe comparison & bulk clue import
How much did each guess learn?
Review candidate reduction, entropy, expected field size and worst-case bucket using the exact same duplicate-letter feedback engine.
Compare three next guesses
Score any valid five-letter probes against the candidates that remain now.
What could this guess return?
See the largest feedback buckets for a probe before you play it.
Paste clue rows
One row per line: CRANE 01020 or CRANE ⬛🟨⬛🟩⬛. Up to six rows; exact duplicate rules are preserved.
How the solver works, word pools & privacy
Two candidate pools
Likely answers uses a familiar five-letter subset derived from the bundled English frequency snapshot and validation lexicon. Expanded searches the much broader local five-letter word list. Neither is claimed to be an official NYT answer list.
Next-guess ranking
After the field is narrow enough, suggestions are ranked by exact feedback-pattern entropy and expected remaining candidates. On a very wide opening field, precomputed high-information starters keep the interface instant.
Independent & local
This is an independent helper for Wordle-style five-letter puzzles and is not affiliated with The New York Times. Clues, candidate filtering, ranking, history, and resume all run in this browser.