dankpuzzles

word game helpers that respect the letters

Word finder for green, yellow and grey letters

A helper for Wordle-style games. Fill in what your guesses told you; the list below updates as you type.

Letters
Green — right letter, right spot
Yellow — in the word, not in this spotseveral per spot

… loading the word list A to Z. Tap a word to see its letter pattern.

    How it reads your colours

    Every guess gives three kinds of evidence, and the finder keeps all of it on one board:

    • Green fixes a letter in its spot.
    • Yellow says the letter is in the word but not in that spot. A letter can be yellow in several spots across guesses, so each yellow box takes more than one letter.
    • Grey says the answer has no more copies of that letter than your guesses already coloured.

    Worked example. Guess CRANE against the answer TREAT: C grey, R green, A yellow, N grey, E yellow. Enter R as the second green, A in the third yellow box, E in the fifth, and C N as grey. The five-letter list drops from 8,614 words to 25 (BREAD, DREAM, GREAT, TREAT among them), all with R second, an A that is not third, an E that is not last, and no C or N.

    Repeated letters

    The games colour a repeated letter one copy at a time, so a letter can be yellow or green and grey. The finder reads that the way the games mean it: exactly as many copies as are coloured, no more. Yellow E plus grey E means one E, not in the yellow spot. Green E plus grey E means one E, the green one.

    A yellow E from one guess and a green E from a later guess are almost always the same E, so they count as one copy. The one case the board cannot see on its own: a single guess that coloured the same letter twice (guess EERIE against THEME gives a yellow E first and a green E last). That proves two copies, so type E into Coloured twice in one guess.

    What this cannot do

    • No daily answers. It does not know today’s puzzle and never will; it only shows every word your letters still allow.
    • The list is ENABLE, not a game’s answer list. ENABLE is a public-domain Scrabble-style list of 172,823 words. It has no proper nouns and plenty of obscure words (AALII, XYSTI), so the count here is usually larger than the handful a game would accept as an answer.
    • Alphabetical, not “most common first”. We have not found a word-frequency list with a clean enough licence to publish rankings from, so the words are sorted A to Z. Common words are not floated to the top.
    • Slurs are removed. 89 words that are racial, ethnic, homophobic, transphobic or ableist slurs (and their plural or -ed forms) are dropped before the list reaches your browser, so they are never shown, even when they would fit. A few innocent homographs go with them; profanity that is not a slur is kept.
    • English letters A to Z only, words of 4 to 8 letters.

    Where the words come from

    The list is enable1.txt from the dolph/dictionary repository on GitHub, pinned to one commit and checked by hash, then split by length: 3,887 four-letter, 8,614 five-letter, 15,211 six-letter, 23,089 seven-letter and 28,410 eight-letter words. Everything runs in your browser; what you type is not sent anywhere.

    source=dolph/dictionary/enable1.txt (ENABLE, public domain) commit=c65f04b0b5b27a981f437b940cf62fe71320d5ec fetched=2026-09-29 rows=172823 sha256=3f16130220645692ed49c7134e24a18504c2ca55b3c012f7290e3e77c63b1a89 kept=4:3887,5:8614,6:15211,7:23089,8:28410 filtered=89