Enter your guesses and their color results to get the single best next word to try — ranked by how much it narrows down the answer. Or switch to Practice Mode to try the tool without an active game.
Built by Garrick Dee · Methodology updated July 2026 · Word list updated July 2026
Popular opening words — click to pre-fill:
After typing a guess, click each tile to cycle its color: grey (not in word) → green (correct) → yellow (wrong position)
The tool picks a random secret word. Type your guesses — it colors the tiles automatically and suggests your best next move after each one. No active game needed.
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Open your Wordle game (NYT, a clone, or anywhere you play Wordle), enter your first guess there, and come back here. Enter the same word in the first row of the table above and color-code each tile by clicking on them, corresponding to the colors provided by Wordle (grey = letter not in word, green = correct position, yellow = in word but wrong position). Then click on "Analyze," and the tool will suggest the best word for your next guess.
If you don't currently have an active Wordle game open, switch to the Practice Mode tab (in the top-right of your browser window). A random Wordle 'word' will be chosen, and your tiles will be auto-colored as the solver arrives at it in order to demonstrate to you how it works.
This tool uses Shannon entropy (the same as used internally by NYT's WordleBot) to score all candidate words for how much information they would give you. After each guess, I filter the list of candidates down to the subset of words that fit all of your previous clues. For each of the remaining candidates, I score them based on the number of possible outcome patterns that word could generate. The highest-scoring word is your best guess.
Guesses that can generate many different outcome patterns (e.g. 20) are more valuable than ones that can only generate a few (e.g. 3) no matter what, because they will always narrow down the possibilities to the same extent.
In our benchmark of 10,000 simulated games (Python seed 42), the solver solved all games in 6 or fewer moves, on average with 3.02 moves. You can find the complete analysis and comparison table here →
NYT continues to modify the list of words after they purchased the game, thus any answer pool 'solver' currently available will be out of date. The original list of 2,309 words was released publicly while Wordle was an independent game, and many solvers (including myself) immediately memorized it. This solution uses real-world frequency of words in order to rank the best answer, and thus continues to be useful as the game evolves.
TRACE is the highest entropy opener (5.989 bits), followed by SLATE (5.986) and then SNARE (5.985). The best openers will test common letters such as E, A, R, I, O, T, N, S in different arrangements without repeating any. CRANE and RAISE are also excellent choices for a starting word. To put any of the letters from the word picker into a particular chip of the starting word, simply click on it. The full list of the 100 best openers and downloadable data can be found at Best Wordle Starting Words.
For the full entropy-ranked list of best starting words with downloadable data, see Best Wordle Starting Words. To play a full self-contained Wordle game rather than get solving help, try the Wordle game on Wordineer. For a random 5-letter word to practice with, the random Wordle word generator picks one instantly with filters for difficulty. For a drawing-based word game, the Pictionary word generator offers category-filtered prompts.