How to make the most of word-game clues
Gray, yellow and green letters tell a story. The trick is reading them together, especially when a letter appears twice.
2 min · RafaGonMar · October 20, 2026
Your opening word creates possibilities
No opening word guarantees a win. A useful first guess often combines different vowels and common consonants. A word with repeated letters can work, but tells you about fewer distinct letters.
After the first guess, change your focus: you are no longer looking for an opening word, but for a guess that uses what you know. Do not leave a yellow letter in the exact position already ruled out.
A gray letter can still be in the answer
This happens when you guessed it more often than it occurs. Exact matches are assigned green first. Yellow matches are then allocated from the remaining available letters, leaving extra duplicates gray.
ALLEYThe A would be green. The first L and the E would be yellow. The second L would be gray because APPLE contains only one L. Y would also be gray.Do not rely only on your green letters
Several green cells can tempt you to make guesses that barely change. Sometimes a guess testing several new letters provides more useful information. The tradeoff is between solving immediately and learning more; the number of remaining attempts matters.
A curated dictionary has limits
Pausa validates guesses against an expanded list of more than ten thousand five-letter words. Daily answers use a smaller selection with a fixed schedule. Some regional words or variants may still be missing. An unrecognized word does not consume an attempt. Spanish uses its own word list and preserves Ñ as a distinct letter.
A fresh challenge each day
The daily word resets at midnight UTC and differs between English and Spanish. Guesses stay in your browser. After the daily game, practice mode gives you another word without changing your daily result.
Your record, one word at a time
Finishing the daily challenge reveals your win rate, current and best streaks, and guess distribution. The past week shows solved words, completed losses and unplayed days. English and Spanish have separate records stored in this browser, without public profiles or account synchronization.