All 8,938 five-letter words in our dictionary, split into lists by first letter, last letter and the letters they contain. The lists you need once Wordle has given you a green or a yellow. The best opening guess overall is TARES.
A green tile tells you a letter and where it sits. These lists are the words that put a given letter in that exact square. (The first and last squares are the two lists above.)
Two greens at the ends of the word. The biggest lists are below; the rest are linked from each first-letter list.
When Wordle has shown you two letters but not where they go, these are the lists that still fit.
Each word played against all 8,938 five-letter words in our list; the column shows how many candidates are still standing afterwards, on average. Full ranking and method.
| Word | Answers left | Information |
|---|---|---|
| TARES | 205 | 6.21 bits |
| LARES | 194 | 6.17 bits |
| RALES | 196 | 6.14 bits |
| RATES | 211 | 6.12 bits |
| TALES | 217 | 6.09 bits |
| ARLES | 206 | 6.07 bits |
| NARES | 209 | 6.07 bits |
| TEARS | 236 | 6.04 bits |
| TORES | 244 | 6.03 bits |
| DARES | 240 | 6.02 bits |