Wordle Helper

How to use the Wordle Helper

1. Enter your greens in the pattern — e.g. _A_E_ for a green A second and green E fourth.
2. Enter your yellows in "included", comma-separated. Repeat a letter (ee) when the clue says there are two.
3. Enter your grays in "excluded" — then scan the candidates, alphabetical, with an exact count.

The gray-that-isn't rule

Wordle's trickiest moment: you guess a letter twice, one copy goes gray and the other goes yellow. The gray does not mean the letter is absent — it means there's only one of it. This helper gets that right: any letter in your pattern or included list is exempt from the excluded filter, so a gray mark can never overrule a green or yellow one.

How it works under the hood

The page embeds 828 five-letter English words from the codex's shared word list. Every keystroke runs three cheap checks per word — positional match, included-letter counts (with multiplicity), excluded-letter absence — and re-renders the survivors alphabetically. The display caps at 200 candidates so the page stays instant, but the count is always exact. All local, all in your browser.

How do I use the Wordle helper?

Type your green letters into the pattern using underscores for unknowns (a green A in position 2 and green E in position 4 becomes _A_E_), your yellow letters into 'included', and your gray letters into 'excluded'. The candidate list updates on every keystroke.

What does the underscore mean in the pattern?

An underscore means 'this position is still unknown' — any letter can go there. So _A_E_ means a five-letter word with A second and E fourth, anything elsewhere.

How do I enter a double letter, like two E's?

Type the letter twice in the 'included' box — 'ee' means the answer must contain at least two E's. A single 'e' only requires one.

A letter is gray in one guess but green in another — what do I do?

Put it in both boxes. A gray mark never overrules a green or yellow one here: any letter in the pattern or the included list is exempt from the excluded filter, which matches how Wordle actually scores repeated letters.

How many words does the helper know?

828 five-letter English words, drawn from the codex's shared word list. It's tuned for common vocabulary rather than the full dictionary, so very obscure answers may be missing.

Is my input sent anywhere?

No. The word list lives in the page and every filter runs in your browser with JavaScript. Nothing is uploaded, stored, or tracked.