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Why six letters plays differently
The guess list behind this tool holds over 22,000 six letter words, close to twice as many as the five letter list. Your first guess still rules out a lot, but you usually need the second one just as much.
Six letter words also lean on endings. In the solver's list of everyday six letter words, more than a third end in ED, ER, ES or LY. Those endings eat up letters that would otherwise teach you something new, so it pays to find out early whether the answer has one.
How to enter your guesses
- Type your six letter guess into the Guess 1 box.
- Tap each tile to match the game: once for wrong spot (yellow), twice for right spot (green in Wordle, red in Canuckle), three times to go back to not in word (grey). Keyboard users can tab to a tile and press Y, G or X.
- Add a row for every guess you have played. The answer list and the suggestion update each time.
If you would rather skip the tiles, the Quick clues tab takes right-spot letters by position, wrong-spot letters under the spot where they showed up, and a box for letters that aren't in the word. Quick clues suits the moments when you have scribbled the clues on paper, or are helping someone who reads their board out to you.
Worked example: tracking down BEAVER
With nothing entered, the solver opens with SOARED. It mixes three vowels with S, R and D, and finishes in ED, so it checks one of the most common endings straight away.
Against the answer BEAVER, SOARED comes back S grey, O grey, A green, R yellow, E green, D grey. Enter those colours and the solver shows 82 possible answers, 28 of them everyday words. The first few are BEAKER, BEATER, BEAVER, BLAMER, BLAZER, BRAVER, BRAZEN and CRATER.
You now know the word has A in the third spot, E in the fifth, and an R somewhere other than the fourth. The ED ending is out, which is useful on its own. The next suggestion is GENTLY. It can't win, but it checks G, N, T, L and Y in one go, and those letters split the 82 words far better than guessing BEAKER, then BEATER, then BEAVER.
Strategy for six letter puzzles
- Test an ending early. One guess ending in ED or ER tells you whether a common ending is there. If both letters come back grey, a big chunk of the list disappears.
- Cover vowels in two guesses. Six letter words often carry three vowels. Between your first two guesses, try to have tested A, E, I, O and U.
- Look for a doubled letter. Words like BETTER, COFFEE and PEPPER are easy to miss because one guess rarely reveals both copies. If the list shrinks to nothing, check whether you marked a repeated letter correctly.
- Don't chase near misses. When one letter separates five possible answers, spend a guess that tests several of those letters at once.
Six letters on Canuckle
The daily Canuckle is five letters, but the weekly Canuckle Plus puzzle runs six or seven letters and leans on Canadian places, food and slang. Use this page for the six letter weeks, or the 7 letter Wordle helper when the grid is longer.
For the standard grid, go back to the five letter Wordle solver. If you play several grids at once, our guides to Quordle and Dordle explain how to share guesses between boards.