Wordle guides

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Read the clue correctly, choose an opening word for the job, and understand what the solver is doing. These guides use plain examples and data from our own word list.

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Starting words

Best Wordle Starting Words From Our Data

Compare balanced, vowel-first, and constrained opening words using letter-coverage counts from our 3,424-word five-letter corpus.

10 min read
Word lists

5 Letter Words for Wordle: Which Ones Help

Which five-letter words actually help in Wordle: common letters over high-scoring ones, the guess list versus the answer list, and the words worth knowing each turn.

7 min read
Word lists

5 Letter Words Containing the Letters You Know

Find five-letter words containing any letters you choose, how a contains search differs from an exact-sequence search, and how to turn Wordle yellows into a word list.

8 min read
Word lists

Five-Letter Words Ending in A

Five-letter words ending in A, from EXTRA to KOALA: how rare the ending is, the letter that usually comes before it, and which words are safe Wordle guesses.

7 min read
Strategy

Wordle Help for 5-Letter Words: Solver & Strategy

Stuck on today's Wordle? Turn your green, yellow, and gray tiles into a short list of valid five-letter words, then pick a next guess that actually narrows the field.

9 min read
Word lists

5 Letter Words Starting With P (Full List + Wordle Tips)

232 common five-letter words that start with P, from PAINT to PROXY, plus which second letter shows up most and how to use a P-start in Wordle.

7 min read
Wordle basics

How to Play Wordle: Rules and Tile Colors

Learn the six-guess rules, what green, yellow, and gray mean, how Wordle is scored, and how to turn each result into a useful next guess.

9 min read
Clue logic

Wordle Double Letters: Rules for Repeated Letters

How Wordle scores repeated letters, the official New York Times duplicate-letter rule, mixed green, yellow, and gray copies, and how to read them.

9 min read
Wordle basics

Wordle Colors Meaning: Green, Yellow, Gray Explained

What the green, yellow, and gray (grey) Wordle tiles mean, how the colours change in high-contrast mode, and how to act on each one.

8 min read
Wordle basics

How to Get a Red or Orange Square in Wordle

Red and orange Wordle squares come from high-contrast mode. Here is what the orange and blue tiles mean and how to turn the setting on or off.

6 min read
Clue logic

Does Today's Wordle Have a Double Letter?

How to tell whether today's Wordle answer repeats a letter without spoiling the puzzle, plus how often double letters actually appear.

6 min read
Strategy

Wordle Hard Mode: Rules and Strategy

See what hard mode changes, how it compares with normal mode, why probe words become harder to play, and how to choose legal guesses that still reveal information.

8 min read
Wordle basics

Wordle Cheat Sheet: Rules, Colors & Double Letters

Every core Wordle rule, the green/yellow/gray (and orange/blue) color meanings, and the double-letter scoring order on one scannable page.

5 min read
Methodology

How a Wordle Solver Turns Clues Into Words

Follow the filtering logic behind fixed positions, misplaced letters, exclusions, and duplicate counts, then a step-by-step walkthrough of using a 5-letter solver.

12 min read
Strategy

Wordle Hints: Get a Clue Without Spoiling the Answer

Build your own progressive Wordle hint ladder from vowel counts to a solver-narrowed shortlist. Real help that works on any day's puzzle, with no daily-answer spoilers.

7 min read
Wordle basics

Does Wordle Ever Repeat Past Answers?

Yes — since February 2, 2026. Here's when Wordle started reusing old answers, why, which word came back first, and how many have repeated so far.

6 min read
Strategy

Wordle Tips: How to Use a Solver Without Losing the Fun

Practical Wordle tips for using a solver without spoiling the game: check a stuck guess instead of asking for the finish line, stay hard-mode legal, and read the candidate list to learn words, not just win.

8 min read

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