This is a feedback-based candidate solver, not a generic starter list. It searches the site’s 682-word answer pool after you translate green, yellow, gray, and repeated-letter feedback into explicit constraints. The accepted-guess pool is larger—1,485 words—but those extra legal guesses are not presented here as possible answers.
No pool on this site is claimed to be an official Wordle list. The value of this tool is reproducibility: the JSON is fixed and versioned, the filters run in the browser, and the same inputs produce the same candidates.
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Tip: click a result to copy it. Yellow constraints require the letter but ban it from the positions you list. If the same letter is yellow twice, set its minimum count to 2.
Translate the board into fields
Use the controls in this order:
- Green pattern: enter exactly six characters. Letters fix positions; underscores remain unknown.
__A_E_ fixes A in position 3 and E in position 5. - Yellow letters: a token such as
R:2,5 requires R but bans it from positions 2 and 5. Include every position where that letter has already been yellow. - Exclude letters: add letters that are truly absent. Do not exclude a letter when one copy is green or yellow and only an extra copy was gray.
- Minimum counts:
E:2 requires at least two Es. - Maximum counts:
E:1 permits one E but rejects two or more.
The position and count rules are applied together. An invalid pattern or count bound shows a field error instead of silently returning a misleading list.
Worked candidate solve
Use this reproducible example:
- Green pattern:
__A_E_ - Yellow letters:
R:2 - Minimum counts:
E:1 - Maximum counts:
E:1 - Exclude letters:
T
Against the current 682-word answer file, the result is SHARED and PLAYER. Both have A in position 3, E in position 5, exactly one E, an R outside position 2, and no T. The example is intentionally about constraint fit; it does not claim either word is today’s answer.
Repeated feedback needs count bounds
Duplicate tiles are where a plain contains/excludes form breaks down. If two guessed Es both receive green or yellow feedback, set the minimum to E:2. If one E is green and the other E is gray, the board usually proves one available E, so use minimum E:1 and maximum E:1. Putting E in Excludes would wrongly remove the confirmed copy.
The current answer file contains 356 six-distinct-letter records and 326 repeated-letter records. That split is another reason not to ban repeats by habit. Read the repeated-letter strategy and feedback rules for two interactive examples of the exact consumption order.
A full game from 682 candidates to one
The worked solve above is a single snapshot. A real game is the same operation in a loop: read the tiles, tighten the fields, re-run the filter, and pick the next guess from what survives. Here is a complete game against the answer NUMBER. Every count below comes from filtering the current 682-word answer file, so the whole sequence can be reproduced in the solver on this page.
Guess 1 — SORTED. The tiles come back gray S, gray O, yellow R in position 3, gray T, green E in position 5, gray D. As fields, that is green pattern ____E_, yellow R:3, and excludes S, O, T, D. Those entries cut the pool from 682 candidates to 19, a list that still ranges from FINGER and HUNGER to PLAYER and PRAYER.
Guess 2 — HEALER, one of the 19. The E in position 5 and the R in position 6 are green; H, A, and L are gray. The E in position 2 is also gray, and that tile is the informative one: the green copy consumed the answer’s only E, so no second E exists. Enter green pattern ____ER, minimum E:1, maximum E:1, and excludes H, A, L. The list drops from 19 to 7: FINGER, JUMPER, NUMBER, PRIMER, RUNNER, WINNER, and ZIPPER.
Guess 3 — WINNER. W and I are gray. The N in position 3 is yellow while the N in position 4 is gray, which proves exactly one N and bans it from position 3. Enter excludes W, I, yellow N:3, minimum N:1, and maximum N:1. Six of the seven candidates fail: FINGER holds its N in the banned position, RUNNER and WINNER carry two Ns, and JUMPER, PRIMER, and ZIPPER have none. Exactly 1 candidate remains.
Guess 4 — NUMBER. Solved in four guesses, and no step relied on intuition—only on entering every tile, including the gray duplicates, after each guess.
The shape of that sequence—682 to 19 to 7 to 1—is typical when nothing is dropped. If your own list is collapsing much more slowly, one of the errors in the mistakes section below is the usual cause.
How the 682-word answer pool is shaped
Aggregate structure will not identify any single answer, but it changes which probes are worth a guess. Four measurements from the same JSON file the solver loads:
First letters are top-heavy. S starts 91 of the 682 answers, or 13.3 percent, and the top five initials—S, P, M, R, C—start 282, or 41.3 percent. At the other end, 2 answers start with Q, 2 with K, 3 with Z, and none with X. If position 1 is still unknown at guess 3, a probe that tests one of the frequent initials earns feedback far more often than one built around a rare opener. The P-starting list with its second-letter families shows how one common initial breaks down further.
Endings cluster into families. E, D, R, or T closes 383 answers—56.2 percent of the pool—and the suffix families -ER (81 words) and -ED (71 words) alone cover 22.3 percent. When positions 5 and 6 turn green as E-R, stop re-testing the suffix and spend the next guess on the letters ahead of it. The final-E table with its -LE, -GE, and -TE groups is built for exactly that situation.
Two vowels is the default build. 468 answers, or 68.6 percent, contain exactly two vowels, and 152 more contain three; together that is 90.9 percent of the pool. Only COOKIE and UNIQUE carry four. So once your first two guesses have tested four different vowels, the answer’s vowel set is usually settled, and further guesses should probe consonants instead.
Repeats go deeper than one pair. Beyond the 356/326 split above, 261 answers have five distinct letters, 63 have only four, and 2—NEEDED and SENSES—have three. The average answer uses 5.42 distinct letters. This is why the minimum and maximum count fields exist: a meaningful fraction of the pool cannot be reached by position and exclusion filters alone.
Common filtering mistakes and their fixes
Most stalled games trace back to one of five data-entry errors rather than to bad luck:
- Excluding a letter because a duplicate went gray. One green A plus one gray A proves exactly one A, not zero. Count the non-gray copies first, then enter a maximum instead of an exclusion.
- Recording only the newest yellow position. A letter that was yellow in position 2 and later in position 5 needs both bans, as
R:2,5. Dropping the older ban lets already-eliminated words back into the list. Append positions; never replace them. - Treating a hunch about position as if it were green. Seeing yellow L twice and deciding the word “must” end in -LE is a guess, not a constraint. Only a green tile fixes a position; everything else stays a ban until the board says otherwise.
- Spending guess letters on proven grays. A next guess that reuses two excluded letters can test at most four new ones. Before submitting, check each letter of the planned guess against the exclude list.
- Guessing a word the filters already eliminated. Late in a game it is tempting to type a familiar word even though it violates a recorded ban. Pick from the surviving list—or, if you probe with a non-candidate to split the list, do it knowingly rather than by accident.
All five habits are cheaper to fix where games are free: unlimited six-letter rounds let you run the full read-enter-filter loop as many times as it takes to make it automatic.
Candidate solving and starter testing are different tasks
Before feedback, a starter can be compared by how it partitions all 682 answers. After feedback, a legal candidate must fit the board even when its opening metrics are mediocre or it repeats a letter. Keeping those intents separate prevents a high-coverage word from overriding known evidence.
Use the measured starter-word experiment when the board is empty. Use this solver once colors exist. If an edge is fixed, the starting-letter hub and ending-letter hub provide focused data sets and neighboring-letter filters.
The default coverage sort measures letter presence in this site’s answer pool plus a documented uniqueness and vowel-balance weight. It is not answer probability. See the word-list methodology for the source, pool fingerprints, formulas, and limitations.
Data review: August 23, 2026. Every count on this page—the 682-word pool, the 19 → 7 → 1 walkthrough, and the letter-distribution figures—was recomputed against the current answer file on that date. The sources, pool fingerprints, and correction process are published alongside the data.
Frequently asked questions
What pool does this candidate solver search?
It searches this site's 682-word answer pool. It does not search all 1,485 accepted guesses, and neither pool is claimed to be an official Wordle list.
How do I enter green and yellow letters?
Use a six-character green pattern with underscores for unknowns. Enter each yellow letter with every position where it is forbidden, such as R:2,5.
How do minimum and maximum letter counts work?
Set a minimum when feedback proves at least that many copies and a maximum when an extra copy is gray. A gray duplicate does not necessarily exclude the letter completely.
Is this also a starter-word ranking?
No. This page finds answer candidates after feedback. The separate starter experiment evaluates all accepted guesses against the answer pool before any feedback exists.
How fast should the candidate list shrink?
In the walkthrough on this page, one entered guess cut 682 candidates to 19, a second cut 19 to 7, and a third left exactly 1. Counts vary by answer, but a list still in the hundreds after two fully entered guesses usually means some tile was never converted into a field.
Which letter positions does the answer pool favor?
S starts 91 of the 682 answers, and E, D, R, or T ends 383 of them. These are pool statistics, not predictions about any single puzzle; they are most useful for choosing probe words while a position is still unknown.