Word Assist

A helper for five-letter word puzzles, built when everyone around me was playing Wordle. You tell it what you know — letters that are in the word, letters that are ruled out, letters fixed at a position — and it filters a dictionary down to the remaining candidates as you type.

The interface is direct manipulation rather than forms: drag letters into position slots to pin them, drop them elsewhere to exclude them, and the candidate list updates in real time. It will not play the game for you, but it is very good at showing you what your clues have actually eliminated — which, it turns out, is most of the dictionary by the third guess.