Wordle Helper

You have probably seen the game Wordle. It was created in 2021 by Josh Wardle as a game for his partner. The game became a hit on the Internet, and the New York Times acquired it for its Game section. The premise is to guess the five-character word by entering a guess in the first row, seeing the results of that guess, and entering another guess until the correct word is entered. At each step, the game indicates which letters are in the answer and in the correct location, and which letters are in the final answer but in the wrong location.

We created Wordle Helper to assist with game play. It does not let you cheat; That's easy enough to do with a simple online search. It just saves some time and energy with the tasks you might already be doing. If you really love playing Wordle by yourself and want to get the maximum brain exercise, don't use Wordle Helper to help with the online puzzle but you will definitely find it rewarding in solitaire mode. If you are playing with a group and want to have a bit of an advantage without cheating, then use Wordle Helper. Given the guesses already made, it lists all remaining possible answers ranked by probability of both being the correct answer and providing the most information for the next guess. You must still select the next guess from that list.

Here is one player's statistics after playing 645 games with Wordle Helper:

That distribution looks pretty good! How does it compare to yours?

What It Does

• As guesses are entered, it calculates all the possible remaining words that can be the answer based on which letters are in the final answer and in the correct location, which letters are in the final answer but in the wrong location, and which letters are not in the final answer at all.
• Past answers are filtered out unless instructed otherwise. Note that this rule changed on February 2, 2026, when the NYT decided to start recycling old answers every now and then to keep us on our toes.
• The list is sorted by how likely the word might be the answer based on the frequency of use of the various letters in all possible words.

Formula Magic

We looked at the various Excel-based Wordle assistants on the Internet and they all looked clunky and didn't really provide much assistance. We wanted to create something that is as easy to use as possible, provides as much actual assistance as possible when choosing the next word, and provides a fully functional solitaire version of the game.

• Suggested word list excludes previously used words unless directed otherwise.
• Suggested word list defaults to the original list of 2,309 possible Wordle words curated by the original creator, unless directed otherwise.
• Suggested words are sorted by how effective the word will be in providing clues for the next guess. This is done by using a table of letter frequency in all known five-letter words and the frequency the word appears in written text. These suggestions are in the Letter Freq column and the Word Freq columns respectively.
• Automatically loads the complete list of previously used words from the Internet.

Try it and let us know what you think.

System Requirements

Wordle Helper is macro enabled and so only runs on Windows and macOS systems.