Start with the clues, not a secret answer
Wordle Dictionary filters a fixed five-letter vocabulary from the green, yellow, and gray clues you enter. Green letters must remain in their known positions. Yellow letters must appear somewhere else, and gray letters are excluded unless duplicate-letter feedback shows that another copy is still possible. That last case matters: a gray tile does not always mean a letter is absent when the same guess contains the letter twice.
The solver separates possible answers from allowed guesses. A valid next guess can be useful because it tests several likely letters, even when that word is not in the remaining answer set. We keep those ideas distinct in the interface so you can choose between trying to win immediately and gathering information.
How guesses are compared
For each candidate guess, the solver simulates Wordle-style feedback against the remaining possible answers. Answers that would produce the same green, yellow, and gray pattern form a group. A strong information-gathering guess tends to divide the answer set into smaller groups, reducing the number of possibilities you should expect to face afterward.
Our ranking is a decision aid, not a claim that one word is universally best. The useful choice depends on your remaining answers, whether you play hard mode, how many attempts remain, and whether you prefer a likely answer or a diagnostic guess. The result screen shows the underlying candidate counts so the recommendation remains inspectable.
Word library and coverage selection
The initial word library contains 100 possible-answer words selected by a transparent coverage heuristic. For every letter, we count how many possible answers contain it, counting a letter at most once per word. A word's coverage score is the sum of those five letter frequencies. This favors words containing several common, distinct letters; it is intentionally less detailed than the board-specific feedback simulation used by the solver.
Wordle answer eligibility and letter statistics come from the project's compiled word metadata. The library is a browsable starting point; use the solver for recommendations based on your actual clues.
Limits and updates
No third-party answer list is guaranteed to match every future game. Definitions can be incomplete, regional, historical, or attached to a spelling that Wordle accepts for a different reason. We therefore describe words rather than promising that a particular word will appear. The library is deliberately rolling out in a small batch so pages can be reviewed before the index expands.
For practical play, begin with the Wordle solver. For the thinking behind specific choices, read the guides to starting words, guess scoring, and repeated letters.