Daily Word
In Daily Word you guess the day's five-letter word in six tries. Same word all day, a new one tomorrow, worked out on your device. Free, no account.
Daily Word gives you one five-letter word a day. Six guesses, with each letter marked as correct, present elsewhere, or not in the word.
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Works offline after the first visit. No install, no sign-up.
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How to play Daily Word
Six guesses, five letters
Type a five-letter word and press enter. The tiles turn green for a letter in the right place, amber for a letter that is in the word somewhere else, and grey for a letter that is not in it at all.
Repeated letters are counted properly
If the answer contains one E and your guess contains two, only one of them is marked. Counting each letter only as often as it really appears is the difference between an honest hint and a misleading one.
The date chooses the word
The word comes from the date rather than being drawn at random, so it does not change if you reload, and it is the same word on any device on the same date. No server is involved.
It changes at your own midnight
The day turns over by your device's calendar. On a shared time zone, people well east or west of it would get a new word at what feels like the wrong time.
Nothing is posted anywhere
There is no share button and no streak to protect in public. Your result stays on this device — it is a puzzle, not a competition.
Daily Word Tips and Strategy
Openers buy information
Six guesses is a small budget, and what matters is not the first word but how much each guess rules out. Start from words that reuse vowels you have already seen confirmed, so every line narrows the field instead of testing a single letter.
One green one amber
A guess that returns a letter in place and a letter present elsewhere usually leaves you with two fixed squares and one movable letter, which is enough to narrow the rest by hand. Keep a note of which letters are confirmed and which are ruled out, and read it back before typing.
Repeated letters mark once
Each letter is only marked as often as it really occurs, so a second copy of a letter already accounted for comes back grey. That grey is information rather than noise: it means the letter is used up, not absent from the word.
Daily Word — Frequently Asked Questions
How many guesses do I get?
Six. After that the word is shown, so you always find out what it was.
What do the colours mean?
Green: right letter, right place. Amber: the letter is in the word, but not there. Grey: the letter is not in the word.
What if the word has two of the same letter?
The marking counts each letter only as often as it actually occurs. If the answer has one E, a guess with two Es will only have one of them marked.
Why is the word the same when I reload?
Because it is worked out from the date rather than drawn at random, and there is no server that could send a different one.
Does it need installing or an account?
No. It works offline and nothing leaves your device.
Daily Word — Past Puzzles and Your Record
The word is recoverable
The day's word is chosen from the five-letter words on the page by the date, so the same date yields the same word as long as that list stays as it is. A word you skipped on Tuesday is not gone; it is simply not the one on screen.
Your result stays here
A finished day is one local entry naming this puzzle and the date. Nothing is sent anywhere and there is no account to attach it to, so the record belongs to this browser and goes if you clear its site data.
Missing a day costs nothing
There is no streak to break and no score that decays. The strip of date cells shows the last seven days at a glance, and every day's word stays a function of its date instead of expiring at midnight.