Right letter, right place
Enter the number of letters that match the answer in the same position.
Word500 helper
Turn the three totals into your next guess
Enter each five-letter guess with its green and yellow counts. The solver keeps every word that could produce those totals, then ranks guesses that separate the shortlist.
Play today’s puzzle on the official Word500 siteYour completed guesses
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What still fits
Solver results
Ranked next guesses
Lower average and worst-case shortlists are better. Entropy measures how evenly a guess separates the remaining words.
Candidate words
The list shown here is shortened, but the ranking used the full candidate set.
No candidates match every row
Check the guess spelling and feedback totals. A duplicate letter can change how yellow matches are counted.
How to use it
Enter totals, not tile positions
After a guess, copy the number of green and yellow letters into one row. You do not need to say which positions matched: Word500 gives aggregate feedback, so the solver checks every possible arrangement that produces the same totals.
Right letter, different place
Enter the remaining matching letters after exact-position matches are removed.
No remaining match
The solver derives this as five minus green minus yellow.
Difficulty rules used by the solver
- Standard: five different letters, without J, Q, X, or Z.
- Standard+: five different letters, with the full alphabet available.
- Advanced: repeated letters and the full alphabet are allowed.
Choose the level of the puzzle you are solving before entering its rows.
How repeated letters are handled
Feedback is calculated duplicate-aware. Exact-position matches are counted first; other letters can count yellow only while an unmatched copy remains in the candidate. This prevents one answer letter from satisfying two copies in a guess.