Wordle Tile Sandbox

Work out where your yellow letters can go, and try your next guess before you play it.

Paste or import a screenshot of your game, or let Random make up a practice puzzle.

Or copy your colors by hand: each green and yellow letter in its slot, then the grays.

Grayruled out

Vowel odds and letter ranking from Wordle’s answer list

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Entering clues

From a screenshot: Paste screenshot reads one you’ve copied, and Import file opens a saved one; on a computer, Ctrl/⌘+V also works. Check the letters, fix any that were misread, then choose Use these clues. If the puzzle was solved, the all-green row is left out, so the clues are as they stood just before the answer.

Random makes up a puzzle to practice on: one or two guesses against a past Wordle answer, which stays hidden. It’s chosen so that from a few to a few dozen arrangements fit a word. A line under the heading says which guesses were made up, and New puzzle draws another.

‹ Guess 2/3 › appears after a screenshot or Random: the clues as they stood after each guess, here after the second of three. ‹ and › step back and forth, say to see how much one guess narrowed things down. Editing a clue by hand ends the stepping and keeps the clues shown.

By hand, copy the colors Wordle gave your letters:

Green (right spot)
The letter in each slot you’ve solved. Typing moves to the next slot; space skips one.
Yellow (wrong spot)
Under each slot, every letter that turned yellow there, across all your guesses. Each becomes a tile on the board.
Gray (ruled out)
Letters that aren’t in the word. If a letter turned gray in one place but green or yellow in another, enter it here too: the word then has no more copies of it than your green and yellow ones.
Double letters
A yellow letter is one tile on the board, or none if it’s already green. When a letter could be in the word twice (yellow in two slots, or green in one and yellow in another), this row appears: press + to add a tile for the second copy, and − to take it away again.

After a screenshot, Random or a shared link, this step folds to a summary of the clues: a stack with a column per slot, each showing its green letter or else the letters that were yellow there, then the gray letters; Edit clues or the step’s heading opens it again. Start over clears everything, board included. Once you’ve entered a clue, the link icon copies a link to these clues, to share them or to open them on another device. Your clues also come back if you reopen the app the same day.

Legal arrangements

Every way your yellow tiles can fill the open slots without going where they were yellow. A · marks a slot whose letter you don’t know yet. The one on the board is outlined, and the ‹ › arrows under the board cycle through the list in this order.

Tap an arrangement to put it on the board. Hold it (or right-click it) to see the dictionary words that match it; since that can give the answer away, you’re asked first, once per tab.

A line such as “E must go in slot 4” means every arrangement agrees. Longer lists are sorted into groups by where one letter goes; tap a group heading to pin that letter there. Lists of more than 24 stay folded until you narrow them with pins or choose Show all.

Arrangements that no word in the word list fits, given your clues, are left out by default. When there are some, Dim, Hide and Show choose whether they are shown dimmed and struck through, left out, or shown like the rest.

Put grid first moves the grid of where each letter can go above the list.

Where each letter can go

One row per yellow letter, one column per slot. Each number counts the arrangements that put that letter in that slot. The Unknown row counts slots whose letter you don’t know yet; such a slot may hold another copy of a known letter.

Tap a number to pin the letter there: the list keeps only the arrangements that agree, and the counts update. Tap it again, or choose Clear pins, to undo.

Tap a letter to sort the list by where it goes; tap it again to go back.

Possible
Shaded by how many arrangements put the letter there.
Forced
Every arrangement puts it there.
Impossible
No arrangement does.
Solved
A green slot.
Pinned
A slot you pinned.

More analysis

These figures come from Wordle’s answer list: the original answers plus every word NYT has used. They count words, not letters, and ignore positions.

Vowel odds: of the answers that contain every vowel marked yellow and none marked gray, how many contain each unknown vowel, and how many contain none of them. The vowels start from your clues; tap one to change it, and Reset to clues undoes that.

All clues also uses your consonants: green or yellow ones must be in the word, gray ones must not. It is closer to a solver, so it stays off until you choose it.

Every case of one yellow and one gray vowel: the same odds for each such pair, for reference. On a computer, hover over a cell to see how many answers it covers.

Letter ranking: the share of answers containing each letter, which is the order the Rank view uses.

The board and the letters

The board shows one legal arrangement of your yellow tiles, with green letters fixed. Drag a yellow tile to another slot to move or swap it; a tile in a slot where it was yellow is flagged. ‹ Arrangement 3 of 12 › says which of the listed arrangements is showing, and ‹ › cycle through them in the list’s order, round and round.

Available letters, under the board, are the ones that could still be in the word; green and yellow keys are from your clues. Tap a letter to try it on the board: in the empty slot you chose (tap one first), or else in the first blank slot that allows it. A tried letter can be dragged too, and its × removes it (on a touch screen, holding it works as well).

Hold a letter (or right-click it) to mark it gray without going back to the clues; hold a gray one to let it back in. Gray letters don’t go on the board: Keyboard and Rank keep them in place, dimmed, and V/C leaves them out.

Fill the board to see whether the word is in the word list and whether it has been a Wordle answer.

Keyboard
Wordle’s keyboard layout.
V/C
Vowels, then Y (in five-letter words it mostly acts as one), then consonants.
Rank
Letters by how many Wordle answers contain them, most common first. The order doesn’t change with your clues, so it’s the same every game. On a computer, hover over a letter to see its share. More analysis, at the bottom, has the full table.