Get Wordle Help One Decision at a Time
Sometimes you want a direction rather than a screen full of words. This helper uses the colored guesses you supply to build a dictionary candidate set, then reveals four stages of assistance. Start with the count, ask for letter guidance if needed, and reveal a suggested word or a short list only when you choose.
The hints come from your entered board, not a published daily-answer feed. Later stages show actual candidate words and can spoil part of the puzzle. Stop after the count or letter hint if you want to keep those words hidden.
Copy Your Board Before Asking for Hints
Type a completed five-letter guess into the first row. Each filled tile starts gray. Tap or click it to cycle through yellow, green and back to gray until every tile matches your game. A green fixes a position; a yellow includes a letter but excludes that position. A gray excludes a letter or marks an extra copy when another occurrence is colored.
Select Update my hints to apply the board. Pressing Enter inside a tile also updates it. Editing letters or colors alone does not refresh the hints. You can enter up to six rows; the helper checks them together. When using the on-page letter buttons for a later row, click a tile in that row first.
The code accepts individual filled tiles in incomplete rows, but a full submitted row is easier to check against the original game. Leave unused rows empty rather than inventing colors for guesses you have not submitted.
What Each of the Four Hint Levels Reveals
1. Candidates remaining
The first card reports how many dictionary words satisfy the board. A high count means several spellings remain compatible; a count of one means one entry in this dictionary matches. Neither number identifies the official daily answer with certainty.
2. High-value letters
Select Reveal another hint to see up to five letters appearing across the candidate set. Each word contributes once per distinct letter, so APPLE contributes one occurrence to P's frequency even though it contains two Ps. These are frequencies within the current dictionary candidates, not general English frequencies or measured information gain.
Confirmed letters are included in this calculation. If every surviving word contains A, A may appear in the hint even when you already know it. Use the hint as a summary of the remaining vocabulary; decide separately which letters still distinguish the alternatives.
3. Suggested next guess
The helper scores each remaining candidate by adding the candidate-set frequencies of its distinct letters. It selects the highest-scoring word, with alphabetical order resolving tied scores. A repeated letter does not earn extra frequency points just because it appears twice in the word.
This is a simple coverage score. It does not simulate every possible response, calculate a win rate, or search outside the surviving candidates for a separate test word. The suggestion may be rare or rejected by your game; check it before playing.
4. Shortlist
The last card shows the first eight candidates, or fewer when fewer remain. With the full dictionary loaded, this is an alphabetical sample, not the eight highest-scoring suggestions. The suggestion at level three and the words in this shortlist therefore serve different purposes.
A Practice Example: When Frequent Letters Are Already Known
Imagine guessing SLATE and receiving gray S, gray L, yellow A, yellow T and gray E. A belongs in the target away from position three; T belongs away from position four. S, L and E are excluded.
Consider just six illustrative compatible words: BATCH, CATCH, HATCH, MATCH, PATCH and WATCH. All six contain A, T, C and H. In this small practice set, those shared letters each occur in every candidate, while the first letter distinguishes the words. This is an illustration, not the full production dictionary count.
A frequency hint can emphasize the shared letters without solving the first-letter choice. Look at the candidates' differences before spending another attempt. The tool's score can describe coverage, but it cannot guarantee that its top word separates this family efficiently.
After your next real guess, copy its feedback into a second row and update the hints. Earlier rows stay active. Adding a later clue is useful only when it belongs to the same puzzle and accurately reflects the game's response.
Keep Repeated-Letter Feedback Intact
In a practice game with target CATCH, the guess CACAO receives green C, green A, yellow C, gray A and gray O. That requires two Cs but exactly one A. The extra gray A does not remove the green A. The yellow C also excludes C from position three.
Enter each colored occurrence separately. The helper combines position restrictions with minimum and maximum letter counts. Marking all copies gray would erase useful evidence, while marking an extra gray copy yellow would incorrectly demand another occurrence.
Updating, Resetting and Empty Results
Update my hints preserves your revealed level. If you already revealed the suggested word, updating a new row refreshes that stage too. It does not hide the later cards again. Reveal another hint also applies the current board, so check your edits before selecting it.
Start over clears the board and returns to level one. With no clues, the count becomes the available dictionary total rather than zero. There is no separate button to hide revealed stages while keeping your existing board.
If no candidates remain, compare every tile with your game, check duplicate letters and look for contradictory greens across rows. Correct the feedback and update again. A missing dictionary entry can also produce zero matches; the message does not prove your actual game has no solution.
If the dictionary status mentions a preview, the full list failed to load and the page is using a smaller built-in collection. Reload and check the status before treating counts or suggestions as complete. JavaScript is required for the interactive board and hints.
When Another Tool Is More Useful
Choose the Wordle Solver when you want a larger visible candidate list immediately. Use the Wordle Finder for known positions and included or excluded letters. Before your first guess, the starter-word guide explains opening coverage. The helper is most useful when you already have feedback and want to control how much assistance you reveal.
Note on Word Lists and Suggestions
This independent helper uses a broad spelling reference, not the official Wordle answer list. Dictionary membership does not guarantee acceptance in your game, and frequency scoring does not establish the best possible move. It does not validate a guess history against hard-mode rules. Examples and hint logic were checked on 21 October 2026; this is not a dictionary update date. This site is not affiliated with The New York Times.