Real progress at Wordle comes from training your thinking.
Ian's Wordle Trainer is a brain training tool. It allows you to test different logic and find more clues against a challenge word so that you can absorb better strategies and learn more words — and get genuinely smarter over time.
Use it after your daily Wordle to understand what the best path was. Use it on its own to practise new strategies. Use it with a friend to challenge each other and learn together.
Explore Strategy and Help in the menu to go deeper.
Scores combine positional frequency (how often a letter appears in each specific position across all common answers) with overall frequency (how often a letter appears anywhere). No repeated letters. Higher = statistically stronger opener.
| Pos | Top letters (% of answers) |
|---|---|
| 1st | S 20% C 11% B 9% T 8% A 8% P 8% F 7% M 6% G 6% R 5% |
| 2nd | A 17% O 16% R 16% E 14% L 11% I 11% U 10% H 9% N 5% T 5% |
| 3rd | A 14% I 11% O 11% E 8% R 7% U 7% N 6% T 5% L 4% S 4% |
| 4th | E 16% N 10% S 9% R 8% I 8% A 8% L 8% C 8% T 7% O 7% |
| 5th | E 24% Y 19% T 13% R 11% L 8% N 7% D 7% H 7% K 6% A 3% |
SLATE is the #1 opener: S is the most common 1st letter (20%), L scores well in position 2, A and T are strong in positions 3 and 4, and E dominates position 5 (24%). Together they cover five of the highest-frequency letters with no repeats.
After your opener, use what you know:
When 6+ candidates remain after two guesses, guessing a plausible answer is often a mistake. A single wrong answer guess eliminates only one candidate. A well-chosen probe word can eliminate half the remaining field in one move — even if it isn't the answer.
Example: if STAIN and PROUD both miss, you know the answer contains none of {S,T,A,I,N,P,R,O,U,D}. Rather than guessing blindly, tap Solve to see one of the suggested exclusion words — these are chosen specifically to test the most useful untested letters.
Tap Solve → in the app to see the top-ranked probe words for your exact situation. They appear in purple, above the green answer candidates.
Wordle answers sometimes contain the same letter twice — ABBEY, BLOOD, VIVID. Most players don't guess duplicates until forced. Here's when to consider it:
The solver handles duplicate letter constraints automatically — including the tricky case where a letter appears once as yellow and once as gray, confirming it appears exactly once.
Use the Practice Puzzle mode to test your opening words deliberately:
Consistent openers build muscle memory. Vary your second guess based on the result, not habit.
When you tap Solve, every word in the common and less common lists is tested against your constraints. The ones that pass are shown — but the order matters.
Common words are sorted by a five-position letter frequency score. The app ranks each letter in each position by how often it appears there across all common Wordle answers. The word that scores best across all five positions appears first and is marked ★.
The sort evaluates positions in a fixed priority order — last letter first, then first, third, fourth, second — reflecting where letter variation most sharply narrows the field. Within each position, letters are ranked from most to least common at that spot. A word with the highest-frequency letter in the highest-priority position ranks above one that merely has common letters scattered across lower-priority spots.
Less common words are sorted alphabetically — they are less likely answers so precise ranking matters less.
Obscure words are also sorted alphabetically and shown last. They match your constraints but are very unlikely to be the intended answer.
The ★ top-ranked common word is statistically the strongest next guess given what you know — but it is a suggestion, not a guarantee. If it doesn't feel right, scan the list and trust your instincts.
Exclusion probe words appear in purple, above the answer candidates. They are not likely answers — they are strategic tools to extract maximum information from a single guess when several candidates remain.
The app builds exclusion words in five steps:
Use an exclusion word when 5 or more answer candidates remain and you want to eliminate as many as possible in one guess — even at the cost of not guessing the answer directly.
Wordle is a word-guessing game. You have six attempts to find a secret five-letter word. After each guess, the tiles change colour to show how close your guess was.
Right letter, right position. This letter is in the answer exactly here.
Right letter, wrong position. This letter is in the answer but somewhere else.
This letter does not appear in the answer at all.
Ian's Wordle Trainer helps you understand why certain words and strategies work — so you improve with every session, not just solve today's puzzle.
You can remove a guess using the × button next to it, then re-solve with updated constraints.
After the solver reveals an answer, you can type that word into the Set box to practise it again from scratch with a different approach.
Three buttons above the puzzle controls let you play a shared challenge word — the same word is generated for everyone in the same timezone during the same time period, so players can compete fairly without anyone knowing the answer in advance.
Tapping a button silently sets that word as the challenge word — the word itself is never revealed. Guess as normal — there is no time pressure on your play. When a new period begins, new players receive a new challenge word, but your current puzzle continues unaffected until you choose to Reset. Tap ↺ Reset to return to free play.
The word is calculated using the date and time on your device — no internet connection is needed and no word is ever sent over the network. Everyone gets the same word purely from the clock.
Strategic probe guesses — not necessarily the answer. Use these when 5+ candidates remain and you need more information. They test the most informative untested letters.
Primary answer candidates matching all your constraints, sorted by positional letter frequency. The ★ top pick is statistically the strongest next guess.
Valid but less likely answers. Worth checking if common words are exhausted or don't feel right.
Rarely used words that match your constraints are shown below less common words. These are valid Wordle guesses and genuine English words, but very unlikely to be the intended answer in a standard Wordle game. Shown for completeness — useful if the common and less common lists are exhausted.
When playing a practice puzzle, tile colours are applied automatically after each guess — you don't need to tap them. The colours reflect the hidden word:
Only words from the full word list (common, less common, and obscure) are accepted as guesses. Invalid words are rejected and the tiles are cleared.
Tap any word in the Solve results to look up its dictionary definition. This works for common, less common, obscure, and exclusion words.
The definition panel slides up and shows:
Close the panel by tapping the ✕ button, tapping the dark area behind it, or pressing Escape on a keyboard.
Tap the 🔊 button in the definition panel to hear the word spoken aloud. Tap again to stop. Uses your device's built-in voice — no internet required.
Definitions are fetched live from the free dictionary API and then saved on your device. Once a word has been looked up it loads instantly from cache — even offline.
Real progress at Wordle comes from training your thinking.
Ian's Wordle Trainer is a brain training tool. It allows you to test different logic and find more clues against a challenge word so that you can absorb better strategies and learn more words — and get genuinely smarter over time.
Use it after your daily Wordle to understand what the best path was and where your thinking diverged. Use it on its own to practise new opening strategies deliberately. Use it with a friend to challenge each other and learn together.
The difference between a player who always finishes in six and one who regularly finishes in three is not luck — it is a trained habit of thinking. Ian's Wordle Trainer is how you build that habit.
Have you ever finished a Wordle and wondered — how did someone else get it in three guesses when it took you six? Behind every fast solver is a strategy: a feel for which letters appear most often, which positions they favour, and how to extract the most information from every single guess.
Ian's Wordle Trainer was built for anyone who wants to develop that — through active practice, not just solving assistance. You might be someone who:
Ian's Wordle Trainer doesn't just give you the answer — it teaches you how to think. Use the Practice Puzzle mode to drill specific words or random challenges, and you'll find yourself needing it less and less as the strategies become second nature.
The app uses three embedded word lists — nothing is fetched from the internet:
All guesses during a practice puzzle are validated against the combined list. Only valid words are accepted.
Tap the 🔊 speak icon in any dictionary definition panel (by tapping a word) to hear the word spoken aloud using your device's built-in voice. Works offline.
Obscure words that match your constraints are shown as a fourth group in Solve results — below less common words. They are valid English words and legal guesses, but very unlikely to appear as the answer in a standard Wordle game.
The Strategy tab analyses the common words that still fit your current constraints and produces three live lists that update automatically.
Letter Frequency — every letter that appears in the current possible common words is counted. The percentage shown is how many of those words contain that letter. Letters are sorted most-frequent first so you can see at a glance which letters are most likely in the answer.
Best Exclusion Probe Words — these are words (from all word lists) that contain none of your already-tested letters and no repeated letters. Each is scored by summing the frequency percentages of its letters. The top 12 are shown. These are the best guesses for eliminating the most uncertainty in a single word — ideal when many candidates remain.
Best Common Candidate Words — the same frequency scoring applied to the current common candidate list. The top 12 are shown. These are your best direct answers — the words most likely to be correct based on the letter patterns in all remaining possibilities.
Optimised Exclusion Words — a smarter probe list that appears below the regular exclusion words when there are 2 or more common candidates remaining. Unlike regular exclusion words (which require all five letters to be completely untested), optimised exclusion words are selected from words that avoid only the gray letters — letters confirmed absent from the answer. Green and yellow letters are permitted, since including a known letter does not reduce the word's ability to reveal new information about the unknown ones.
Scoring works in two steps: first, each unknown letter (not green or yellow) is counted across all current common candidate words to find how frequently it appears in the remaining possibilities. Then each candidate probe word is scored by the sum of those counts for its unique letters. Words are ranked by their highest single-letter score first (so a word containing the rarest-but-most-needed letter always beats a word with several medium-value letters), then by total score. The top 12 are shown.
Example: if the remaining candidates are BAKER, AMBER, MAKER and the known letters are A, E, R — then B, K, M are the unknown letters scored by how many candidates contain them. A probe word containing M (appearing in 2 candidates) ranks higher than one with only B or K (each in 1 candidate).
When the lists update — automatically after every Add Guess, after every Solve, after deleting a guess row with ×, and after Reset. On first load with no constraints the full common word list is used, giving you the best statistical opening words immediately.
The ★ top pick in each list has the highest score. Tapping any word opens its dictionary definition.
Version: 12 May 2026 (SW v74)
Ian's Wordle Trainer is a free, open-source Progressive Web App. It runs entirely in your browser with no server, no account, and no data collection. All word lists are embedded directly in the app file.
It works offline after the first visit and can be installed to your home screen on iPhone, iPad, Android, and Mac.
The app updates automatically in the background whenever a new version is available — no manual update or App Store required. The next time you open it after an update, the latest version loads silently.
Dictionary definitions are available for any word in the Solve results. Tap a word to look it up — definitions are fetched from the free dictionary API and cached on your device so they load instantly on future lookups, even when offline.
Ian's Wordle Trainer is not affiliated with the New York Times or the official Wordle game.
The app opens full-screen with no browser chrome, just like a native app. It works completely offline after the first visit.
The app installs like a native app and appears in your app drawer. Works fully offline.
Open the app in Chrome or Edge, then look for the install icon in the address bar — a computer screen with a down arrow — and click it. Or:
The app opens in its own window without browser chrome and is available from your Applications folder or Start menu.
Created by Ian Ladyman. I built this app to help you to learn to play Wordle better. The inspiration came from disappointing results when asking AI assistants for Wordle help, they were making logical and spelling mistakes. So I decided to build an App that actually returns correct and helpful information.
Ian's Wordle Trainer was designed and built with the assistance of Claude by Anthropic — an AI assistant that helped write and refine the code, strategy content, and documentation throughout development.
Word definitions are provided by the Free Dictionary API ↗ — a free, open community project.
Wordle was originally created by Josh Wardle. Ian's Wordle Trainer is an independent project and is not affiliated with the New York Times or the official Wordle game.
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Choose a colour theme. Your choice is saved and remembered.
Replaces green/yellow with blue/orange for players with red-green colour vision deficiency.
Choose the body text weight — headings are unaffected. Bold is the default.
Adjust the size of all text and elements. Your choice is saved.
Permanently deletes all training history records. Your app preferences and dictionary cache are not affected.
Resets all saved preferences — theme, text weight, instruction setting — back to the app defaults. Your cached dictionary definitions are kept.