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), enter your first guess there, then come back here. Type the same word into the first row, then click each tile to match the color Wordle gave you — grey for a letter not in the word, green for correct position, yellow for the letter is in the word but in the wrong spot. Click Analyze and the tool finds your best next guess.
If you don't have an active game open, switch to Practice Mode — the tool picks a random word and auto-colors your tiles so you can see exactly how the solver works in real time.
It uses Shannon entropy — the same principle NYT's WordleBot uses internally — to rank every remaining candidate word by how much information it would give you. After each guess, the tool filters the candidate pool down to only words consistent with every clue you've entered, then scores each remaining word by the number of distinct outcome patterns it could produce. The word with the highest score is your best next guess.
In practical terms: a guess that could produce 20 different outcome patterns is more valuable than one that only produces 3, because it narrows down the field more aggressively no matter what the answer turns out to be.
In our benchmark of 10,000 simulated games (Python seed 42, playing the top-ranked suggestion every turn), the solver solved 100% of games in 6 or fewer guesses, averaging 3.02 guesses. See the full analysis and comparison table →
Because NYT changed the list after acquiring Wordle, and continues to edit it — so any tool claiming to know the exact answer pool is outdated. The original 2,309-word list was public when Wordle was independent, and several solvers memorised it. This helper ranks candidates by real-world word frequency instead, which makes it more robust as the game evolves.
TRACE is #1 by entropy (5.989 bits), followed by SLATE (#2) and SNARE (#3). The best openers test common letters — E, A, R, I, O, T, N, S — without repeating any. CRANE and RAISE are also strong choices. Click any chip in the starting word picker to pre-fill it into the first row. For the full ranked list of 100 openers with downloadable data, see 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.