Wordle Letter Position Calculator

How it is calculated

This is a counting estimate, not a word solver. The pattern must be exactly 5 characters. Each underscore is an unknown position and every other character counts as a known letter. From the excluded field the tool keeps only the distinct letters A to Z, ignoring case, punctuation, spaces, repeats and non-English letters. Then letters per slot = 26 − excluded letters (never below 0) and estimate = unknown positions × letters per slot. It reports a sentence with the estimate, the number of unknown positions and the number of excluded letters, in your language. If no position is unknown it says the pattern is fully known. The tool does not remove the known green letters from the other slots, does not use yellow letters, and never checks a word list, so the figure is a rough size of the search space.

Common mistakes

• Typing a pattern that is not exactly 5 characters. A 4- or 6-character entry returns no result.
• Using a question mark, a dash or a space for a blank. Only an underscore is an unknown, so a pattern like ?R?N? is treated as fully known with 0 unknown positions.
• Reading the estimate as the number of possible words. It counts letters per slot added together, and most letter combinations are not real words.
• Putting yellow letters in the excluded field. Yellow letters are in the word, and excluding them would wrongly shrink the count.
• Expecting the known green letters to be removed from the other slots. The tool only subtracts the excluded letters, so R and N still count among the 17 letters per open slot in the example.