Daily Word
Mouse and keyboard
- Type letters; Backspace deletes; Enter submits a guess.
- An invalid word shakes the row and says why rather than accepting it.
Touch
- Tap the drawn keyboard under the board; each key is finger-sized.
- Tap the backspace key to delete, and the enter key to submit.
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About Daily Word
Six guesses, five letters, one word a day for everyone.
One word a day, five letters, six guesses, the same word for everyone on earth until midnight UTC.
The board tells you more than most players use. A letter marked as present but misplaced has ruled out one position and confirmed a letter in the same stroke, and the keyboard under the board is a running summary of everything you have learned so far.
Also searched for as
- word guess game
- five letter word game
- daily word puzzle
- word of the day game
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How to play Daily Word
- Guess the hidden five-letter word. Type a guess and press Enter, or tap the letters on the keyboard under the board.
- Each letter is marked after every guess: in the word and in the right place, in the word but somewhere else, or not in the word at all.
- The mark is a colour and a shape — a filled square, a ring, an empty square — so the board reads the same if you cannot tell the colours apart.
- The keyboard keeps score too: every key you have used takes the strongest mark that letter has earned.
- Six guesses. Hard mode makes you reuse every letter you have already confirmed, which is a real constraint rather than a harder word.
Strategy that actually helps
- Open with a word that spends five different common letters. Vowel-heavy openers find where the vowels are; consonant-heavy ones rule more letters out. Either works, as long as you do not waste a letter twice in one guess.
- A ring is more information than a filled square. Knowing a letter is in the word but not in that place removes one position and confirms the letter, so put it somewhere new immediately.
- Guess two, not one. After the first guess, a second opener that covers five untouched common letters usually narrows the field faster than a word that tries to be the answer.
- Mind the double letters. If a letter is marked as absent in one place but you have seen it confirmed elsewhere, the word contains exactly as many of it as the marks show.
- Say the pattern out loud. Five-letter words with a known first and last letter are easier to recall as sound than as letters on a grid.
Controls
Mouse and keyboard
- Type letters; Backspace deletes; Enter submits a guess.
- An invalid word shakes the row and says why rather than accepting it.
Touch
- Tap the drawn keyboard under the board; each key is finger-sized.
- Tap the backspace key to delete, and the enter key to submit.