Enter your guesses and their colour 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.
Popular opening words — click to pre-fill:
After typing a guess, click each tile to cycle its colour: grey (not in word) → green (correct) → yellow (wrong position)
The tool picks a random secret word. Type your guesses — it colours 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 colour 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 Analyse 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-colours your tiles so you can see exactly how the solver works in real time.
After each guess, the tool filters the candidate pool down to only words consistent with every clue you've entered. It then tests each remaining candidate as a hypothetical next guess: for every possible answer, what pattern would this guess produce? The word that creates the most evenly spread distribution of outcomes gets the highest score. This is Shannon entropy — the same principle NYT's WordleBot uses internally, measured in bits of information. The word that gives you the most information on average is shown as 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.
When Wordle was originally independent, its answer list was public and several solvers memorised it. NYT has since changed the list and continues to edit it — so any tool claiming to know the exact answer pool is outdated. This helper ranks candidates by real-world word frequency instead of relying on a static list, which makes it more robust as the game evolves.
The starting-word chip picker lists 18 well-known high-coverage openers. The best starting words test common letters — E, A, R, I, O, T, N, S — without repeating any of them. CRANE covers C, R, A, N, E; SLATE covers S, L, A, T, E; RAISE covers R, A, I, S, E. All three are solid first guesses. The chip list also includes less obvious options like ROATE, which ranks highly in full entropy analyses. Click any chip to pre-fill it into the first row.
If you want 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.