The Spellwise blog
Notes on word games, vocabulary and the words people almost know.
How to run a daily word game group with friends or coworkers
Set up a daily word game group, choose what to rank, and settle the house rules before the arguments start. How groups and leaderboards work in Spellwise.
November 14, 2026 · 4 min readHow to solve a word you’ve never seen
You can’t remember a word you don’t know, but you can still solve it. Endings, vowel counts and doubled letters from 23,868 words, and how to use the clue.
November 14, 2026 · 4 min readLearn a new word every day: what goes on a Spellwise word card
Every Spellwise round ends with a word card: how to say the word, its part of speech, a plain definition and one example sentence. Here’s why each part is there.
November 14, 2026 · 3 min readSix-letter starting words: what 15,232 words say about your first guess
Six-letter word puzzles reward different first guesses than five-letter ones. Letter counts from 15,232 six-letter words, and the starting words they point to.
November 14, 2026 · 5 min read