Five letter words from clues

This is not a game. You play your daily five-letter puzzle somewhere else (Wordle-style apps). When you are stuck, use this page to list words that still fit your clues.

Start here (3 steps)
1. In your real puzzle, note which letters are green (right spot), yellow (in the word, wrong spot), and gray (ruled out).
2. Type green letters in the five boxes below (leave blanks empty). Put yellow letters in “must include”. Put gray letters in “exclude”.
3. Read the word list under the form — pick your next guess in the real game.

Not affiliated with The New York Times, Wordle, or any daily puzzle publisher. For study and fun only.

~8,900 five-letter words; everything runs in your browser (nothing uploaded).

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Green — correct spot

One letter per box, or leave blank if unknown.

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Yellow — wrong spot (optional — skip if confused)

Advanced: only if you track which column a yellow letter came from. Most people use “must include” below instead.

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Yellow — must include somewhere Type letters that must appear (repeat a letter for duplicate clues, e.g. ll for two L’s). Gray — exclude Letters that are not in the answer (unless duplicate rules apply below). Wordle-style duplicate letters. When a letter is both confirmed (green/yellow) and gray, gray means “no extra copies”—not “absent”. Uncheck for simple exclude-only gray.

How it works

Fill green boxes for letters you know are correct. Use the yellow row to record letters that appeared on a yellow tile in each column—they must still be in the answer, but not in that slot. The “must include” field adds any yellow letters when you are not tying them to a column.

Gray letters are normally banned from the answer. With duplicate handling on, a gray copy of a letter you already marked green or yellow means the word does not contain more of that letter than your clues require—matching how many daily games score repeated letters.

FAQ

Is my puzzle sent to a server? No. See Privacy.
Why is a word missing? Proper nouns and entries outside the ENABLE-style list are excluded.
Need a full list by pattern? Try Find Five Letter Words or unscramble tiles at Spell My Letters.