WordTips, Try Hard Guides, and YourDictionary all run the same core loop — you type your green, yellow, and gray clues and get a filtered five-letter word list — but they differ sharply in everything around it. Try Hard Guides leads on daily answers and solver controls, WordTips on breadth across word games, and YourDictionary on cross-game word finding.
What makes a Wordle helper site worth using?
A Wordle helper is any third-party tool that turns the clues already on your board into a shortlist of words that could still be the answer, and most also suggest which word to guess next. Wordle itself is a daily five-letter word game created by Josh Wardle in October 2021 and acquired by The New York Times on January 31, 2022; every player worldwide gets six guesses at the same word, with green marking a right letter in the right place, yellow a right letter in the wrong place, and gray a letter that is not in the word at all.
No helper site is run by the Times. They are independent tools built on publicly known word lists and Wordle's tile rules, which is exactly why quality varies so much from one brand to the next.
The four tests we applied
- Spoiler-safe by default. You should never see the day's answer unless you deliberately open an answer page.
- Accurate and current. A solver should filter a real Wordle-style word list, and any daily-answer content should be dated and updated.
- Depth, not just a word list. Letter-frequency data, starting-word rankings, and controls like an answers-only toggle turn a quick lookup into something you learn from.
- Clean and fast. If you must scroll past three ad units to reach the tool, the site fails.
WordTips: Wordle solver, helper, and finder
WordTips (word.tips) is the biggest all-round word-game hub of the three. Its Wordle page is titled “Wordle Solver, Helper & Finder,” and the pitch is accurate: it accepts your green, yellow, and gray letters and ranks the best next guess, with the whole site organized around word games rather than Wordle alone.
What the WordTips Wordle solver does
You enter the letters you have confirmed green, the ones that came up yellow, and the ones shown gray. The tool filters its word list and surfaces the next guess it ranks highest. Around that core loop, WordTips layers a data-backed “Best Wordle Starting Words” page, daily hint pages for Wordle, Connections, and Strands, and a full set of list pages for 2- to 10-letter words.
WordTips is also where the daily-hint habit scales beyond Wordle: the same site covers NYT Mini and Midi Crossword answers, Spelling Bee, and half a dozen other daily games, plus solvers for Scrabble, Words with Friends, Wordscapes, and Wordfeud. If you play several word games each morning, one bookmark covers them all.
Where WordTips is strongest
The strongest single asset is breadth combined with data. Its starting-words page explicitly frames its pick as “best Wordle starting words according to the data” rather than opinion, and its word lists are the kind of searchable reference a player returns to outside puzzle hours. Letter-frequency thinking — which letters appear most often in five-letter words — is built into the product's framing throughout. If you want to compare the data angle properly, our own best Wordle starting words guide walks through the same idea with our word corpus.
WordTips weak spots
The cost of being a hub is clutter. The Wordle tool lives inside a very large navigation with app-install prompts, sign-in nudges, and cross-promotion for dozens of other games, so the page is busier than a single-purpose solver. None of that breaks the core tool, but it is the opposite of the “clean and fast” test when you only want to type four clues and read one list.
Try Hard Guides: Wordle solver plus daily answers
Try Hard Guides (tryhardguides.com) comes at Wordle from the answers-and-guides side. Its solver page is called “Wordle Solver – Answer Helper Tool,” and the site publishes a dated answer post for every puzzle, right down to “Wordle September 18, 2026 Answer for 1917” on the day of this review.
What the Try Hard Guides Wordle solver does
The tool takes correct (green), misplaced (yellow), and incorrect (gray) letters like every other solver, but it adds the most useful set of controls of the three sites. A word-length selector switches the board between 4, 5, 6, and 7 letters, a “Display Wordle Answers Only” toggle limits results to the official answer list instead of general five-letter words, and a “Contains Letters” control lets you specify exactly how many times a letter appears. It also shows a “Recommended Guesses” row — words packed with the most common letters still in play — and a “Common Letters” panel that counts how often each remaining letter appears across the candidate list.
That answers-only toggle matters more than it looks. The official Wordle answer list holds 2,309 words, far fewer than the thousands of five-letter words a general dictionary filter returns, so toggling it on shrinks a candidate list from “every English word that fits” to “words Wordle would plausibly use.”
Where Try Hard Guides is strongest
Try Hard Guides wins on solver depth plus the daily-answer archive. No other site in this comparison pairs a configurable solver with a same-domain answer page you can open deliberately after you finish (or after you give up). The site's starter-word page recommends classic openers such as ADIEU, ARISE, and STARE alongside the data favorites SLATE, CRANE, and TRACE, so the strategy content spans both vowel-first and consonant-balanced styles.
It is also the most honest in separating the two jobs: the solver ranks possibilities from your clues, while the answer posts state the day's word outright. You choose how much help you take.
Try Hard Guides weak spots
The July 9, 2026 review at TechRaisal gave the solver a final 7.5/10 and flagged two recurring complaints worth repeating: some suggested words are not accepted by the official Wordle dictionary when the answers-only toggle is off, and the mobile layout feels cramped compared with desktop. Dictionary accuracy scored 6.5/10 in that review — the weakest score in the set. None of that makes the tool unusable, but late-game precision is where a wrong candidate hurts most, so on the last guess it pays to have the answers-only toggle on.
YourDictionary: the generalist word finder
YourDictionary's Wordle tool lives inside WordFinder (wordfinder.yourdictionary.com), which markets itself as the “all-in-one tool for popular word games” covering Scrabble, Words with Friends, and Wordle from one search bar. The Wordle page is titled “Wordle Solver & Word Finder – Get Help on Today's Puzzle.”
Where YourDictionary is strongest
The selling point is cross-game usefulness. You type letters into one search bar and get word lists that work for Scrabble scoring, Words with Friends, or Wordle filtering, plus word-list building and word-search solving. If your word games are mostly Scrabble-family and Wordle is the one puzzle you visit occasionally, one tool does both jobs without switching sites.
YourDictionary weak spots
Of the three brands, this is the least Wordle-specific. There is no Wordle starting-words data page of the WordTips kind, no dated daily-answer archive of the Try Hard Guides kind, and no answers-only toggle surfaced in the way the solver-first sites do it. The tool is a general word finder pointed at Wordle, not a Wordle tool with extras — fine for quick letter lookups, thinner for players who want strategy depth.
Feature-by-feature: WordTips vs Try Hard Guides vs YourDictionary
The table below is the comparison none of the review pages we found actually publishes. It reflects what each site's Wordle tool showed when we checked it on September 18, 2026.
| Feature | WordTips (word.tips) | Try Hard Guides (tryhardguides.com) | YourDictionary (wordfinder) | WordleSolver.Online |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green / yellow / gray entry | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Board lengths | 5 letters (hub has other games) | 4, 5, 6, 7 letters | 5 letters | 4, 5, 6, 7 letters |
| Wordle-answers-only toggle | No | Yes | No | No |
| Dated daily-answer pages | Hints page, answer behind it | Yes — e.g. Wordle #1917, Sep 18 2026 | No | No (deliberate: no spoilers) |
| Best-starting-words data | Yes (“according to the data”) | Yes (starter-word page) | No | Yes (letter-frequency guide) |
| Other word games covered | Connections, Strands, crosswords, Scrabble, Words with Friends, Wordscapes | Quordle, Nerdle, Jumble, Strands, crosswords, codes | Scrabble, Words with Friends, word search | Word finder + 5-letter word lists |
| Extra solver controls | Ranked next guess | Contains-letters count, common-letters panel, recommended guesses | Letter search bar | Ranked next guess, repeated-letter handling |
| Account required | No (app nudge) | No | No | No |
| Best for | Multi-game players | Daily-answer seekers and solver tweakers | Scrabble-family players | Spoiler-free solving without an account |
One difference the table cannot show is tone: Try Hard Guides puts the day's answer a click away at all times, while WordleSolver.Online deliberately does not publish the daily answer at all, so its solver never spoils a puzzle you meant to finish honestly. Which philosophy you prefer is a personal call, and the next two sections help you make it.
Wordle solver vs Wordle helper: which tool do you need?
The terms get used interchangeably, but where sites draw a line, a solver lists every word that still fits your clues, and a helper goes one step further by ranking that list and telling you which guess would eliminate the most remaining possibilities. We explain that distinction in depth in our Wordle helper vs. solver guide; for choosing a site, the practical version is simpler: decide how much help you want before you open the tab.
For a nudge, any of these sites works — enter your clues and read the shortlist. For Hard Mode, use a solver that respects revealed-letter rules. For post-game learning, The New York Times' own WordleBot (launched April 7, 2022) is the most authoritative analyst, though it lives behind the Times' subscription, while free solvers like the one on this sitelet you replay the same filtering logic yourself — the mechanics are broken down in how a Wordle solver turns clues into words.
Which Wordle helper site should you use?
Pick by how you play:
- You check today's answer daily and want solver depth→ Try Hard Guides. The answers-only toggle and 4–7 letter selector are the most precise combination, and the dated answer archive is unmatched.
- You play several word games a day→ WordTips. One hub for Wordle, Connections, Strands, crosswords, and Scrabble-family solvers, with the best data-page coverage.
- You mostly play Scrabble or Words with Friends→ YourDictionary's WordFinder. The cross-game letter search earns its place; for deep Wordle strategy it is the thinnest of the three.
- You want clues without spoilers, no account, and nothing tracking you → WordleSolver.Online. Our solver runs the same green, yellow, and gray loop on 4- to 7-letter boards, never publishes the daily answer, and needs no signup. Pair it with our best starting words and 5-letter word lists when a guess feels stuck. Wordle Unlimited fans get the same no-account treatment for endless practice.
Whatever you choose, the single best habit is using the least help you can: take the shortlist before the ranked answer, the ranked answer before the reveal. A good helper site is one that makes taking less help easy. If you're still deciding how much help is too much, our honest take on whether a Wordle solver is cheating sets the boundary we use ourselves.
Sources and further reading
- Wordleon Wikipedia, for the game's history, answer-list size, and tile-color rules.
- Try Hard Guides Wordle Solver and WordTips Wordle Solver, checked directly on September 18, 2026 for the feature table.
- TechRaisal's Try Hard Guides solver review (July 9, 2026) for the independent rating cited above.
- Wordle helper vs. solver for the terminology distinction.
- Best Wordle alternatives for Quordle, Nerdle, and the other spinoffs mentioned in the FAQ.
- Editorial policy for our no-spoiler stance and how figures are checked.