Wordle Free Online — 4, 5, 6 & 7 Letter Word Lengths
Daily 5-letter puzzle or unlimited mode with 4, 5, 6, and 7-letter word lengths. Free — no login, no app required.
Play Wordle online free — 4, 5, 6 and 7-letter words
Guess the hidden word in six tries: type a word, press Enter, and read the colours. Green means the letter is in the right position, yellow means it’s in the word but the wrong position, and grey means it isn’t in the word at all. What makes this version different from the original is the variable word length — the daily puzzle is the classic 5-letter game, but in unlimited mode you switch between 4, 5, 6, and 7-letter words with one click. Most unlimited clones stay at five letters and sometimes lock the longer lengths behind a paid plan; here all four lengths are free, with no login, no app, and no NYT account.
Everything runs in your browser — your guesses, your daily progress, and your win streak are saved to this browser’s local storage, not to a server. That makes it a fine daily vocabulary challenge, a low-pressure way for English and ESL learners to practise, or a quick warm-up for teachers building classroom vocabulary lessons and language-arts starters. The 4-letter mode, with its shorter grid and simpler words, is the gentlest on-ramp for children, beginners, and anyone new to word-deduction games. If you enjoy deduction word games, try the classic letter-by-letter word game Hangman next.
Daily word, endless rounds, and sharing your emoji grid
Daily mode gives everyone the same 5-letter word for a given date — it’s derived deterministically from the calendar day, so your puzzle matches anyone else playing on the same local date, and it resets at midnight. Your in-progress guesses are saved, so you can close the tab and finish later, and each daily win adds to a streak that a loss resets to zero. When the round is over, a Share Result button turns your guesses into an emoji grid of 🟩🟨⬜ squares you can copy or post — the social hook that made Wordle a phenomenon — so friends can compare how they did without seeing the answer.
Unlimited mode hands you a fresh random word every round with no daily cap — hit New Word whenever you like and pick 4, 5, 6, or 7 letters from the word length selector. Unlimited rounds don’t touch your daily streak, so you can practise freely without risking it. Difficulty climbs with length: more positions mean a larger pool of candidate words and more room for repeated letters, so most players find 6-letter noticeably harder than 5, and 7-letter genuinely challenging. Drop to 4 letters and it’s the friendliest version — a shorter grid and simpler vocabulary that’s ideal for children and beginners.
One honest limit worth knowing: guesses are validated against a curated list of common words, not a full dictionary. That keeps the puzzles solvable and obscure words out, but it also means a perfectly real word can occasionally bounce (the row shakes) if it isn’t on the list — swap in a more common word of the same length.
Best starting words for 4, 5, 6 and 7-letter games
A strong opener isn’t a clever word — it’s a word that tests the most common letters at once, so it can rule out the largest slice of possibilities. Aim for two or three distinct vowels plus the highest-frequency consonants (R, S, T, N, L) and no repeated letters, since a repeat wastes one of your five test slots. Every opener below is a real word in this game’s list, so it will be accepted as a guess:
| Length | Strong opener | Why it works | Alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 letters | RATE | Two vowels (A, E) and two of the most common consonants (R, T) — half the alphabet’s workhorses in one short word. | TEAR, LANE, ROSE |
| 5 letters | RAISE | Three vowels (A, I, E) plus R and S, the two most frequent consonants. Its anagram ARISE tests the exact same letters if you prefer it. | ARISE, TRACE, OCEAN, RATIO |
| 6 letters | REASON | Three distinct vowels (E, A, O) and the R, S, N consonant trio — broad coverage before you’ve spent a second guess. | NATURE, ORANGE, MASTER |
| 7 letters | REALITY | Seven positions, seven different letters — three vowels (E, A, I) with R, L, T and a Y, so nothing is wasted on a repeat. | PICTURE, HISTORY, NETWORK |
MASTER and NETWORK are worth remembering for a different reason: when your opener leaves you with lots of yellows, a consonant-heavy second guess that avoids the letters you’ve already confirmed pins down word structure faster than re-testing the same vowels.
A turn-by-turn plan for reading the clues
Once the first guess is down, the game becomes bookkeeping. The on-screen keyboard colours every key you’ve tried — green, yellow, or grey — and it keeps the strongest result for each letter, so a letter that ever went green stays green on the keyboard. Trust that map instead of holding it all in your head.
- Spend early guesses on coverage, not on winning
- With six tries you can afford one or two guesses that test brand-new common letters even if you already have a green or two. Information now saves you a blind stab later.
- Re-place yellows, don’t re-test them
- A yellow letter is confirmed in the word — just in the wrong square. Keep it in your next guess but move it to a column you haven’t tried, rather than dropping it or leaving it put.
- Handle duplicate letters deliberately
- Longer words repeat letters far more often, so on 6 and 7-letter puzzles it pays to actively test a double once your vowels are known — guessing a word with two of the same letter tells you whether the answer really has two.
- Let greens anchor the shape
- A green in position one plus a known ending narrows the field dramatically. Read the fixed letters as a pattern and brainstorm words that fit it, rather than starting from scratch each row.
What the tile colours mean when a letter shows up twice
Colouring is done in two passes, which is what keeps duplicate letters honest. First pass: every letter that sits in its exact position is locked green. Second pass: the remaining letters are checked against only the letters of the answer that haven’t already been claimed, and turn yellow if there’s a match left to give.
That two-pass evaluation is why a letter can show grey even though it’s clearly “in the word.” If the answer contains a single E and your guess has two, only one E lights up — green or yellow — and the second E goes grey because there’s no second E in the answer to account for it. It looks like a bug the first time you see it; it’s actually the correct signal that the answer has just one of that letter.
This game vs. NYT Wordle and other unlimited clones
The honest pitch: this is the fastest way to play unlimited rounds at variable word lengths for free. It isn’t trying to replace the New York Times original — and there are places where the alternatives genuinely win.
| Feature | This tool | NYT Wordle | Most unlimited clones |
|---|---|---|---|
| Puzzles per day | Unlimited, plus one daily | One per day | Usually unlimited |
| Word lengths | 4, 5, 6, 7 — all free | 5 only | Usually 5; longer lengths sometimes on paid plans |
| Price / signup | Free, no account | Free; NYT account optional | Often free, sometimes with paid tiers |
| Streak sync | Saved locally in this browser | Synced across devices via account | Varies — often local only |
| Accepted guesses | Curated common-word list | Large accepted-guess dictionary | Varies by site |
Where they win: NYT accepts a much wider set of valid guesses and hand-curates its answers so the daily word never repeats, and signing in syncs your streak across every device — this tool’s streak is tied to one browser. If a synced, hand-edited daily puzzle is what you want, play the original. If you want variable-length, back-to-back rounds with nothing to install, this one is faster and free.
Guesses that quietly waste a turn — and what to try instead
- Your correctly-spelled word got rejected
- Guesses are checked against a curated list of common words, so an obscure or unusual word can bounce and the row shakes. Try a more everyday word of the same length.
- You keep re-using grey letters
- Grey means the letter isn’t in the word — putting it back in a later guess spends a slot on information you already have. The keyboard greys those keys for you; let it.
- You leave a yellow letter where it was
- Yellow already told you that square is wrong. Reusing the same position learns nothing new — move the letter to an untested column instead.
- You jumped straight to 7-letter mode
- Seven letters has the biggest candidate pool and the most room for repeats — it’s the hardest setting. Get comfortable at 5, step up to 6, then take on 7.
- Your streak reset for no reason
- The streak is stored in this browser’s local storage. Switching devices or browsers, or clearing site data, starts you at zero — there’s no account to carry it across.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Switch to unlimited mode and use the word length selector to choose 4, 5, 6, or 7-letter words — the game loads a new word of that length instantly. Daily mode always uses the classic 5-letter word. Where longer words are sometimes a paid extra on other sites, every length here is free.
Yes. Unlimited mode gives you a new random word every game with no daily limit, at any of the four word lengths — no login, no app, and no NYT account required. Both the daily puzzle and unlimited mode are completely free.
Pick an opener that tests the most common letters with no repeats. For 5-letter, RAISE or its anagram ARISE covers three vowels plus R and S. For 6-letter try REASON, for 7-letter REALITY, and for 4-letter RATE — each one front-loads vowels and high-frequency consonants.
Colouring uses two-pass evaluation. All correct-position letters are locked green first, then the remaining letters are marked yellow only if the answer still has an unclaimed copy. So a duplicate letter can legitimately show green in one spot and grey in another when the answer contains just one of it.
Yes. Your win streak is stored in your browser’s local storage and persists between sessions, and your in-progress daily guesses are saved too, so you can close the tab and finish the puzzle later. It’s tied to this browser, so a different device won’t share the same streak.
Yes. When a game ends, tap Share Result to turn your guesses into an emoji grid of 🟩🟨⬜ squares — the same shareable format that made Wordle go viral. It shows the pattern of your guesses, not the letters, so you can compare how you did with friends and see who solved it in fewer tries without spoiling the answer.
The New York Times game gives one shared 5-letter puzzle per day with a large accepted-guess dictionary and account-synced streaks. This version adds free unlimited rounds and variable word lengths (4–7 letters), keeps your streak locally, and needs no signup — a free unlimited alternative rather than a replacement.