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Type the letters you know and press Search. Green letters go in their place, yellow letters under the place they were not in, and grey letters in the last box.
How to use the Wordle Solver
- Green letters go in the Correct letters row, in the same place as in your guess.
- Yellow letters go in a Misplaced letters row, under the place where they were yellow. Each guess gets its own row: press Add row for the next one.
- Grey letters go in Excluded letters. If a letter was grey in one place and green or yellow in another, type it in both: the solver then knows how many times it appears.
- Press Search. Sort A to Z, or by best next guess: words that test the letters most of the remaining words share. Likely answers come first, then past NYT Wordle answers (since February 2026 the NYT has been reusing some), then every other word the game might accept. Each word links to its own page with its meaning and points.
The address in your browser keeps your letters, so you can bookmark a search or send it to a friend. The solver also works for 4 to 11 letters, for Wordle-style games of other lengths.
The best Wordle starting words
We played each everyday five-letter word with five different letters against all 1,944 past NYT Wordle answers and counted how many letters it turned green or yellow. These found the most:
| Word | Letters found per game | of them green |
|---|---|---|
| LATER | 1.80 | 0.43 |
| ALTER | 1.80 | 0.42 |
| ALERT | 1.80 | 0.40 |
| AROSE | 1.79 | 0.56 |
| STARE | 1.78 | 0.59 |
| LASER | 1.76 | 0.41 |
| ARISE | 1.76 | 0.56 |
| RAISE | 1.76 | 0.55 |
| LEARN | 1.75 | 0.41 |
| RENAL | 1.75 | 0.34 |
LATER found 1.80 letters per game on average. If you would rather land greens, SLATE put 0.64 letters in the right place per game, more than any other word we tested.
What 1,944 past answers tell you
- Start with S. S begins 290 answers (15%), C begins 169 answers (9%), B begins 147 answers (8%).
- Look for E, A, R, O, T. E is in 47% of all answers, A in 40%.
- Expect repeated letters. 603 answers (31%), almost one in three, have a letter twice or more.
- Skip plurals. Not one of the 1,944 answers has been a plural ending in S, so the solver leaves those out of the likely answers.
- Old answers can come back. Since February 2026 the NYT has reused 26 old answers, starting with SQUAD (#296, again as #1704). The latest: MAJOR, #20 in 2021 and again #1938 on October 9, 2026.
- The rarest letters: J (23), Q (28), Z (31), X (33), V (130).
Stuck on a scramble instead? Our guide How to Unscramble Words: 9 Techniques That Work shows the tricks.
5 Letter Words
Today's word lists:
All 5 letter words · 5 letter words starting with S · Every word list
Where the words come from
Results come from the three word lists Unscramble ME uses (see How It Works). Likely answers are everyday words: in both Scrabble lists, among the 100,000 most common words in English web text, and not plurals. That set includes 96% of all past answers. Past answers come from the New York Times' own Wordle data, #1 to #1944 (October 15, 2026); they cover the answers up to the day before this page was updated. To browse every one of them without clues, see our 5 letter words, listed by the letter they start with, end in or contain.
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