How the hint tool works

The turn picker

The five buttons at the top of the tool — labeled 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 — map to how many guesses you want today’s Wordle to take. The hint word changes based on which one you pick. A lower number means a stronger hint; a higher number means a softer one. There’s no “default” answer behind the scenes: every turn count is its own calculation against the day’s solution.

What “strong” and “soft” actually mean, in practice:

• Turn 2 (strongest hint). The hint word usually returns four greens. You type it, Wordle lights up four positions, and you have one obvious candidate left. Pick this when you’re on a streak you don’t want to drop and you want the puzzle to be almost over the moment you type the hint.
• Turn 3. Usually two or three greens plus a yellow or two. You can see the answer shape; you still have to choose between two or three plausible words.
• Turn 4. Balanced. About one green, a couple of yellows, and the fun of actually solving the puzzle for the back half. The default starting point.
• Turn 5. A softer nudge — mostly yellows. You learn which letters are in the answer but not where they go. Most of the deduction is still on you.
• Turn 6 (softest). Hardly counts as a hint — closer to a good opening word. Pick this when you want a starting word that isn’t a spoiler at all, just a smart first guess.

The synonym and sentence toggles

Sometimes you want a different kind of help — not a starting word, but a thematic nudge. The synonym list and the blanked-sentence toggle on the home page (and on the answer page) are both opt-in. Click to reveal:

• Synonyms. A short list of words that mean roughly the same thing as today’s answer. Useful when you have most of the letters but can’t pin down the exact word.
• Sentence. A real-sentence example with the answer blanked out as five underscores. Useful when you want context — sometimes seeing the word in use is what unlocks the recognition.

Both toggles stay hidden until you click. The default page view has zero spoilers below the turn picker.

Looking for a solver instead?

If you’ve already used a couple of guesses and want to feed those constraints into something, that’s a different kind of tool than this one — we wrote about the distinction. The short version: wrdlcheat hands you one good guess up front instead of asking you to input the ones you’ve already made.