Five-Letter Word Practice

Can't wait until tomorrow? Practice mode gives you a brand-new random five-letter word every round, as many times as you like.

How to play Five-Letter Word Practice

Find the hidden five-letter word in six guesses. Type a real word and press Enter.
After each guess every tile changes color and shape: a circle means the letter is in the right spot, a leaf-shaped tile means it is in the word but somewhere else, and a dimmed square means the letter is not in the word.
Repeated letters are counted exactly: if the answer has one E and you guess two, only one E lights up.
The on-screen keyboard keeps track of what you have learned, so you can see which letters are still worth trying.
Press New word at any time to start over with a different random answer. Practice games have their own stats, separate from the daily puzzle.

Use practice rounds to test different opening words and see which one gives you the most clues on average.
In hard mode, think about which letters you are forced to reuse before typing — it is easy to paint yourself into a corner.

No. Practice rounds keep their own win streak and guess distribution, so you can experiment freely.

Words are picked at random from our curated list of several hundred answers, so repeats are possible but rare.