Find the hidden five-letter word in six guesses. A new daily word, unlimited practice, hard mode and a colour-blind-safe board. Stats stay in your browser.
Word Guess is a free word puzzle in which you find a hidden five-letter English word in six guesses, and every guess tells you which letters are right. Type a real word and press Enter. Each letter gets one of three marks. A purple tile with a check means the letter is in the word and in the right place. A teal tile with a dashed frame and a ring means the letter is in the word but in another place. A dark tile with a cross means the letter is not in the word. The shapes carry the meaning as well as the colours, so the board works if you cannot tell purple from teal, and the Contrast switch turns the tiles black, yellow and pale grey. The keyboard on screen keeps the best mark for every letter you have tried. Daily gives one word per day. Practice gives an unlimited number of random words, and each game ends with the word and a short definition, so you also learn what it means.
Repeated letters are the part most players get wrong, so the rule is exact. First, every letter that is in the right place is marked. Then each remaining letter of the hidden word can mark at most one earlier letter in your guess as present, from left to right. Example: the hidden word is ABBEY and you guess BABES. The B in place 3 and the E in place 4 are right. ABBEY still has one unused B and one unused A, so the first B and the A are both marked present. The S is not in the word. The result is present, present, right, right, not in the word. A second example: the hidden word is ALLOW and you guess LLAMA. The L in place 2 is right, the first L is present because ALLOW has a second L, the first A is present, and the last A is marked as not in the word because ALLOW has only one A. A mark never claims more copies of a letter than the hidden word holds.
The daily word comes from a list of 1,184 answers. The list is shuffled once, and the shuffle is fixed, so a word cannot come back until every other answer has been used: 1,184 days, a little over three years. The day is your device's local date, such as 2026-10-15, so everyone with the same date gets the same word. Practice picks a random answer and does not touch the daily word. Daily and Practice keep separate statistics in this browser: games played, win percentage, current streak, best streak and how many games you won in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 guesses. A game in progress is saved, so you can close the tab and carry on. Clearing site data removes everything, and the Reset stats link in the Stats panel does it on purpose. Hard mode can only be changed before your first guess. In hard mode a guess must keep every right letter in its place and use every letter you have found, and the message names the letter that is missing.
The answers are 1,184 five-letter words chosen from SCOWL, the word lists by Kevin Atkinson, at size 35 or smaller, each with its first short definition from WordNet 3.1, a lexical database from Princeton University. The list was read by hand: proper nouns, abbreviations, insults, crude and body words, drink, obscure words, past-tense forms ending in ED and plurals made by adding S to a four-letter word are left out, so FARMS is never an answer but CROSS is. Guesses are checked against a larger list of 5,063 five-letter words from SCOWL at size 60 or smaller, which includes plurals and rarer words, so a word that is in a common dictionary is normally accepted even though it will never be an answer. A rare or very new word can still be refused with the message that it is not in the word list, and a refused word does not use up a guess. The definition is the most common meaning only and can read oddly for a word with several meanings. This is an independent game with its own rules text and look; it is not connected to any newspaper or other word game.
On a computer type letters, press Backspace to delete and Enter to submit. On a phone use the keyboard on the page. After a round, Copy result puts a short text on your clipboard: the title with the date and your score such as 4/6, then one line per guess with ■ for right place, ○ for in the word elsewhere and □ for not in the word. A star after the score means hard mode, and X/6 means the word was not found. The text never contains your letters or the answer. Your settings, your game in progress and your statistics are saved in this browser's local storage and are never sent anywhere; no account is needed. The page loads two small files once, the answers (about 60 KB) and the guess list (about 30 KB), and after that it works without a connection while the tab stays open.
Type any real five-letter word and press Enter. You have 6 guesses. A check on a purple tile means the right letter in the right place, a ring on a teal tile means the letter is in the word elsewhere, and a cross on a dark tile means it is not in the word. Use those marks to choose your next word.
Every hint you have found must be used in your next guesses. A right letter stays in its place, and a letter marked present must appear somewhere, as many times as you have found it. A guess that breaks this is refused with a message such as Letter 2 must be A. Switch it on before your first guess; it cannot change mid-game.
Yes. Daily uses the local date on your device, for example 2026-10-15, to pick one of 1,184 answers in a fixed shuffled order, so people with the same date get the same word. Around midnight in different time zones two people can have different dates. Practice never changes the daily word.
The guess list holds 5,063 five-letter words from the SCOWL word lists at size 60 or smaller. Very rare words, new words, names and some regional spellings are not in it. A refused word does not use up a guess, so try a more common one.
No. Your guesses are processed in your browser and not uploaded. Your statistics, game in progress and settings are saved in this browser's local storage only. The page counts visits with Google Analytics, never your letters or the answer.
Yes. Each mark has a symbol as well as a colour: a check for the right place, a ring with a dashed frame for in the word elsewhere, and a cross for not in the word. The Contrast switch changes the tiles to black, yellow and pale grey, and the keys on screen carry the same symbols.