About Spellwise

Spellwise is a free daily word game. Everyone gets the same word, you have six guesses, and when the round ends you learn what the word means. One word wiser, every day.

How a day works

A new word unlocks at midnight where you are. Type a guess and the tiles tell you how close you were: a solid tile means the letter is in the right spot, a ringed tile means it’s in the word but somewhere else, and a gray tile means it isn’t in the word.

Win or lose, the word card opens with how to say the word, what it means and a sentence that uses it. Every word you play is saved in My Words, your own growing dictionary.

A week of words

• Sunday to Thursday: five-letter words you’ve probably heard but might not be able to define.
• Six-letter Friday: one letter longer and a little harder.
• Stretch Saturday: a word that may be new to you, so you really learn something.
• Holidays: a themed word, and the tiles flip into the holiday’s colors.

Clues

Stuck after three guesses? Get a clue tells you whether the word is a noun, verb, adjective or adverb. Your streak still counts, and your result is marked as solved with a clue. The meaning waits until the round ends.

Streaks, stats and badges

Spellwise keeps your current streak, your longest streak, your win rate, how many guesses each win took and how long you took to finish. There are 34 badges to earn for streaks, sharp solves, words learned, groups and rare days, plus a few secret ones.

Play with your people

Start a group and send the link. Your group’s board shows everyone’s streaks and stats, and once you’ve finished, you can see how everyone else did that day. The leaderboard ranks everyone who plays with an account, and you can sort it by streak, win rate, guesses or time.

Free for life

No paid tiers. You can play as a guest, or sign in with Google or an emailed link to keep your streak on every device and join groups.

Where the words come from

Every word is chosen for Spellwise, and every definition is written for it in plain English, then checked against Merriam-Webster, Wiktionary and WordNet for accuracy.

An independent game

Spellwise is an independent game. It isn’t affiliated with The New York Times or its game Wordle.