Wordle Solver

What is a Wordle solver?

A Wordle solver is a tool that takes the clues from your Wordle guesses — the letters that turned green, yellow, and gray — and narrows the entire dictionary of five-letter words down to only the ones that still fit. Instead of you mentally juggling which letters are confirmed, which are banned from certain spots, and which are ruled out entirely, the solver does that filtering instantly and shows you what's left. This one runs entirely in your browser, so there's nothing to install and no waiting on a server.

It's built around Wordle's exact rules, but the underlying logic works for any word puzzle with the same green, yellow, gray clue system. The word length selector covers 4 through 11 letters, so the many Wordle spinoffs that use longer or shorter words are handled too — pick the length first, then enter the clues the same way.

How to use the Wordle solver

1. Pick your word length.Wordle itself is five letters, which is the default. If you're playing a spinoff with a different length, tap 4 through 11 at the top and the clue boxes and the dictionary both switch to match.
2. Enter your green letters.For each position box under “Green letters”, type the letter Wordle marked green in that exact spot. Typing jumps you to the next box automatically and Backspace walks you back, so you can fill the row without touching the mouse — leave a box blank if you don't have a confirmed letter there yet.
3. Add your yellow letters and gray letters. Under “Yellow letters”, type any letter that showed yellow into the box matching its position — a box can hold more than one letter if you've tried several there. Then put every letter that came back gray into the single “Gray letters” box. Use Reset any time you want to start a fresh puzzle.
4. Read the results and copy your next guess. The match count and word lists update as you type, split into “Likely answers” and “Other valid guesses”. Click any word tile to copy it to your clipboard, plug it into Wordle as your next guess, then come back and add whatever new clues you get.

How the suggestions are ranked

Once the solver knows which words still fit your clues, it ranks them using a letter-frequency heuristic: words made up of letters that show up often across the remaining candidates get pushed to the top, and repeated letters within a word only count once, so a word doesn't get an unfair boost just because it doubles up a common letter. It's a fast, practical shortcut rather than a full probability calculation, and it tends to surface guesses that eliminate the most possibilities.

The results are also split into two groups on purpose. “Likely answers” pulls from the official Wordle answer list — the shorter set of words that have historically been used as solutions — while “Other valid guesses” covers the much larger dictionary of accepted five-letter words that Wordle will let you type but rarely uses as the answer. Checking “Likely answers” first is usually the efficient move, then falling back to the full list if nothing there fits once you've added your latest clues.

That two-group split only exists at five letters, because that's where an official answer list exists. At any other length the solver searches a single English dictionary of words of that length and returns one ranked list of matches.

Limitations worth knowing

This solver works on the English word lists only, so it won't help with Wordle clones in other languages. The New York Times also tweaks its official answer list from time to time, which means on rare occasions the real answer shows up in “Other valid guesses” instead of “Likely answers” — it will still be in the results, just not flagged as a favorite. The ranking is a heuristic, not a guaranteed-optimal calculation, so its top suggestion is a strong guess, not necessarily the mathematically best one.

One edge case to know: if you mark a letter as gray but that same letter is also entered as green or yellow somewhere, the solver ignores the gray entry for that letter. That matches how Wordle itself behaves when a letter appears once in the answer but you guess it twice — only the extra copy grays out.

Why is it free?

Whether you consider using a solver a fair way to save a streak or a bit of a cheat is entirely your call — either way, FreeToGenerate.com keeps this tool free because it's built to run fully in your browser with no account, no watermark, and no premium tier standing between you and the answer.