How to play Wordle
In Wordle you have six tries to guess a hidden five-letter word, and after each guess every letter is marked to show whether it is in the word and in the right place.
What is the goal of Wordle?
Wordle is a puzzle for one player, played in a web browser or an app. There is one new puzzle each day, and every player gets the same hidden word. Your goal is to find it in six guesses or fewer.
Each guess must be a five-letter word. After you enter it, the game marks each letter, and you use those marks to plan your next guess.
What do the colours in Wordle mean?
Each letter of your guess gets one of three marks, shown by colour:
| Colour | What it means |
|---|---|
| Green | The letter is in the word, in this exact position. |
| Yellow | The word has this letter, but in another position. |
| Grey | The letter is not in the word, or not as many times as you used it. |
How do double letters work in Wordle?
The hidden word can contain the same letter more than once. If your guess repeats a letter, each copy is marked on its own: a copy is green or yellow only while the hidden word still has a matching copy, and any extra copy is grey.
For example, if the hidden word has one E and your guess has two, one E is marked green or yellow and the other grey. A grey copy next to a green or yellow copy of the same letter tells you exactly how many times that letter appears.
What is hard mode?
Hard mode is an optional setting. Once a letter is marked green or yellow, every later guess must include it, so you cannot spend a guess only on testing new letters.
What are good Wordle tips?
- Start with common letters. A first guess with several of E, A, R, O, T, L, I, S and N tells you the most.
- Use eliminations. Grey letters are out, so build your next guess from letters that are still possible.
- Do not repeat grey letters. A letter marked grey, with no green or yellow copy, will not help you again.
- Move the yellow letters. A yellow letter belongs somewhere else, so try it in a new position.
- Check for double letters. If the remaining letters do not fit, the word may use one letter twice.
- Think in patterns. Write the known letters with gaps, such as
??A?E, and list the words that fit before you guess.
How can KitPie Words help you practise Wordle?
Use these steps to practise the reasoning, or to look back at a puzzle after you have finished it:
- Open Wordle solver, type each guess and mark its letters green, yellow or grey as the game showed them, as in this example: CRANE with R yellow and E green. It knows that a yellow letter is not in its marked position and handles repeated letters.
- For a looser search, open the word finder and set the minimum and maximum length to 5. Put the green letters in the pattern, with
?for each unknown position, the yellow letters under "Must include letters" and the grey letters under "Exclude letters": pattern ??A?E, include R, exclude S, T, O, N and U. - Read the list and choose a guess that tests new letters. To study common shapes, browse all five-letter words, or include A, E and R to see every five-letter word with those letters.
The word finder cannot say that a letter is in the word but not in a certain position, so its list may include words that put a yellow letter back where it was marked; the solver leaves those words out.
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Questions about Wordle
How many guesses do you get in Wordle?
Six guesses, and each one must be a five-letter word.
How do double letters work in Wordle?
Each copy of a letter is marked on its own. A copy is green or yellow only if the hidden word has that many copies; any extra copy is grey.
What is hard mode?
An optional setting in which every later guess must include the letters already marked green or yellow.
Is there a new Wordle every day?
Yes, one puzzle a day, the same for every player.
Does KitPie Words show Wordle answers?
No. KitPie Words shows no daily answers or hints. Its five-letter list is a general word list, so use it to practise, not to look up a puzzle.
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