4-letter word puzzle helper

4-letter Wordle solver.
Same logic, tighter board.

Playing a 4-letter tile puzzle instead of the standard five-letter Wordle? Recreate your green, yellow, and gray clues on a 4-letter board and filter our 1,860-word list down to what still fits. A four-letter board is the tightest of the set: fewer tiles means fewer clues per guess, so each colour carries more weight.

1,860 4-letter words 18.5% repeat a letter No sign-up

Content updated October 23, 2026

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Interactive tool

Enter your Wordle clues

Type each past guess, then tap every tile until its green, yellow, or gray color matches your board.

Correct spotWrong spotNot in word

Recreate your cluesType, then tap tiles to change color

Your strongest matchesUpdates as you add clues

1,860possible words

Smart next guesses

salesealaleseasteats

Useful letters now

e37%s35%a34%o26%l23%t22%r21%

alesbest coverage

salestrong fit

sealstrong fit

east

eats

seat

teas

ares

ears

eras

sear

sane

lose

sole

toes

apes

peas

ores

roes

rose

sore

same

seam

also

lest

lets

base

aces

case

noes

Your clues stay in this browser. Nothing is sent or saved.

How it works

The same filter on a 4-letter board

A tile-clue solver is a search filter: green fixes a letter and position, yellow requires the letter somewhere else, and gray excludes it unless a confirmed duplicate is still unaccounted for in that row. None of that logic changes with board width — only the candidate list does.

With only four slots there is almost no room for a throwaway probe word. Every guess has to be a real candidate, which is why players stall on four-letter puzzles more often than on five.

The board is aimed at four-letter tile games, mini word puzzles, and Wordle spin-offs that shrink the grid. If you are actually playing the New York Times game, use the standard five-letter solver instead, and read how the filtering works if you want the logic spelled out.

1
Pick 4 letters
The board and word list switch together.
2
Enter your guesses
Tap each tile until the color matches your game.
3
Filter and choose
Use the narrowed candidate list to plan your next guess.

Board data

What the 4-letter word list looks like

These figures come from the same generated corpus the solver filters, so they describe exactly what this board can return: 1,860 words in total, most often starting with S (10.5% of the list).

Most common letters in 4-letter words

Letter(s)	Words	Share of list
E	683	36.7%
S	658	35.4%
A	624	33.5%
O	484	26%
L	419	22.5%
T	415	22.3%
R	392	21.1%
I	386	20.8%

How many of the 1,860 words contain each letter at least once. Guesses built from the top rows rule out more candidates per turn.

Most common openings

Letter(s)	Words	Share of list
CO	34	1.8%
BA	32	1.7%
LA	31	1.7%
PA	31	1.7%
LO	30	1.6%
BO	28	1.5%

The two-letter openings that appear most often on a 4-letter board.

Most common endings

Letter(s)	Words	Share of list
TS	47	2.5%
ES	45	2.4%
LL	44	2.4%
ST	36	1.9%
RE	36	1.9%
ED	36	1.9%

The two-letter endings that appear most often. On longer boards a confirmed ending usually removes more candidates than a confirmed first letter.

Vowel spread

Vowels	Words	Share of list
0 distinct vowels	7	0.4%
1 distinct vowel	1,239	66.6%
2 distinct vowels	609	32.7%
3 distinct vowels	5	0.3%

Words grouped by how many distinct vowels they hold, across all 1,860 4-letter words.

Repeated letters on a 4-letter board

344 of the 1,860 words (18.5%) repeat at least one letter — ADDS, AREA, ASKS, AWAY, BALL, BEEN. The solver counts duplicates rather than treating a letter as simply present or absent, which is the part most hand-filtered lists get wrong. See the duplicate-letter rules.

Filter the 4-letter word list

Not every clue is positional. If you only know the opening, a middle sequence or the ending, filter the full list instead of guessing.

Live word list

Filter four-letter words by pattern

Combine a beginning, contained sequence, or ending to shrink the list instantly.

Starts withContainsEnds with

1,860 matching words

ableactsaddsagesaimsalsoareaarmyasksawaybackballbandbankbarsbasebearbeenbestbetsbidsbillbindbitebitsblowblueboatbodybookbootborebothbugsbulkburybusybuysbytecallcamecardcarecasecellcentcharchipcityclubcluecodecoldcomecopecopycorecostcumscurecutsdaredarkdatadatedaysdeaddealdeardeemdeepdeskdieddiesdiscdiskdoesdonedoordowndrawdrewdropdumbdumpdutyeacheaseeasteasyeatsedgeeditelseendsevenevereyesfacefactfailfairfallfarmfastfatefearfeedfeelfeetfellfeltfilefillfilmfindfinefirefirmfishfitsfiveflagflatflewflowfolkfoodfootformfourfreefromfullfundgaingamegavegetsgirlgivegladgoesgonegoodgrewgrowhackhairhalfhallhandhanghardharmhatehaveheadhearheat

Showing the first 160 matches. Add another letter to narrow the list.

For a browsable A to Z view, see the 4 letter words list. Find classic patterns with the 5 letter word finder.

Best guesses

Strongest opening words for a 4-letter board

4-letter words with no repeated letters, ranked by how much of the 4-letter corpus their letters cover.

RankWordLetter coverage

1SALE