Six letters, seven guesses
Guess the six-letter word. Every guess must be a real word. After each guess the tiles show how close you were.
P is in the word and in the right place.
R is in the word but somewhere else.
That E is not in the word — at least, not a third one. Repeated letters only light up as many times as they actually appear.
Hint reveals one letter and costs you a guess. On the rare-word days it's free.
Daily is the same word for everyone. Practice is unlimited. Speed is against the clock — ten seconds added per guess, thirty per hint.
Daily No. 1
How you narrowed it down
Daily puzzles
Guess distribution
Fastest rounds
Tune the game
Applies to Practice and Speed. Daily always draws from the full list.
Any letter you've revealed must be used in every later guess.
Six letters is a wider net than five, so seven is the default. Turn it off for a stricter six.
Blue and orange — the pair that stays distinct for every kind of colour vision. On by default; turn it off for teal and violet.
Hexicon — six letters, one a day.
3,660 answers — ten years of daily words, none repeated.
Definitions from WordNet 3.0, Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.