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Guess a hidden five-letter English word. Each guess must itself be a valid five-letter word. After submitting a guess, each letter is colored to indicate its status. Green means the letter is correct and in the right position. Yellow means the letter is in the word but in a different position. Gray means the letter does not appear in the word at all. Use these clues to eliminate possibilities and converge on the answer within six attempts.
A strong starting word contains common letters in typical positions and no repeated letters. Words like stare, crane, or adieu cover high-frequency letters and give maximum information from the first guess. Avoid starting words with uncommon letters or doubled letters. After the first guess, process the color feedback methodically: eliminate all gray letters from future guesses, lock green letters in their confirmed positions, and try yellow letters in different positions in subsequent guesses.
Wordle was created by software engineer Josh Wardle as a personal gift and released publicly in October 2021. Within months it had millions of daily players worldwide, and its shareable result grid became ubiquitous on social media feeds in early 2022. The New York Times acquired the game in January 2022 for a reported seven-figure sum. The game's success reflected a particular appetite in English-speaking online communities for a daily shared challenge with a social sharing component, and it spawned hundreds of thematic variants on the same core mechanic.
After your first guess, the colors turn the puzzle into a process of elimination. Treat gray letters as permanently banned and never reuse them, since each repeat wastes a guess that could test new letters. Green letters are locked to their position, so build every later word around them. Yellow letters are the trickiest signal: the letter belongs in the word but not where you placed it, so your next guess must move it elsewhere, never leave it in the same spot. With limited attempts, a strong middle-game move is to spend a guess on as many untested common letters as possible rather than fixating on one likely answer too early. When several candidates fit your clues but differ by one or two letters, guess a word that contains those distinguishing letters even if you do not expect it to be correct, because eliminating two possibilities at once is worth more than a hopeful long shot.
The most costly mistake is replaying a gray letter, which gives you no new information and effectively shrinks your six attempts to five. A close second is leaving a yellow letter in the same square; the color already told you that position is wrong, so repeating it confirms nothing. Many players also lock onto the first plausible word and burn guesses on minor variations of it instead of testing fresh letters that would rule out whole groups of words. Watch out for doubled letters too: a word can repeat a letter, and a green plus a gray of the same letter is a clue about how many times it appears. Finally, do not ignore less common but high-value consonants once vowels are placed, since words sharing the same vowels are often separated only by a single distinguishing consonant you have not yet tried.
Green means the letter is correct and in the right spot. Yellow means the letter is in the word but in a different position. Gray means the letter is not in the word at all, so you should never use it again in later guesses.
No. Yellow tells you the letter is in the word but that exact position is wrong, so your next guess must place it somewhere else. Keeping it in the same square repeats a known mistake and learns nothing new.
Words can repeat letters. If one copy shows green and another shows gray, that signals how many times the letter appears. Pay attention to these mixed signals, since they often distinguish two otherwise similar candidate words.
Yes. A fresh five-letter word is available each day, and every player gets the same word on the same day, which is what makes comparing results with friends meaningful when you share your grid.
Pick words rich in common letters with no repeats, like CRANE, SLATE, or RAISE. They test several frequent vowels and consonants at once, so the feedback from a single guess rules out large numbers of impossible answers early.