The Five Letter Game
Word guessing: daily puzzle,
Free
The Five Letter Game is a relaxed word challenge built around five-letter words.
Play your way:
• Word of the day — a daily puzzle to keep a streak going.
• Solo vs CPU — practice anytime.
• Two players on one device — pass and play with a friend.
• Online two-player — match and play over the internet.
Features dictionaries for multiple languages, progress and achievements on your device, and optional word suggestions to help grow the dictionary. No in-app purchases — just the game.
Optional word lookup: after a word of the day, “What does this word mean?” opens your default browser and searches ecosia.org. Ecosia processes that search, including technical data such as your IP address, under its own privacy notice (https://www.ecosia.org/privacy). The app does not send your player name or scores, and you can skip the lookup.
more -Word of the day high scores are kept for 7 days. Climb the table by extending your streak and guessing more words. After 7 days with no new score, the entry is removed.
-Optionally look up a meaning for word-of-the-day words: "What does this word mean?" opens your browser on ecosia.org.
-Thank you for proposing so many nouns. Dictionaries: DE 600 words, GB 668 words, US 674 words.
17.4.2 6d ago
-Optionally, you can send your Word-of-the-day scores to the server. Climb the table by extending your streak and guessing more words; after 7 days with no new score, your entry is removed.
-Optionally you can look up a meaning of a Word-of-the-day: "What does this word mean?" opens your browser on ecosia.org.
-Thank you for proposing so many new nouns. The dictionaries contain now 599 words for German, 665 words for GB English, and 671 words for US English.
17.4.1 Oct 22
setting player names now easier, statistics screen shows accepted words, animation effects are now reduced during power saving mode, extended dictionaries (DE 588 nouns, GB 649, US 655). Privacy documents updated.
17.3.11 Oct 3
Extended dictionaries: DE 570 words, GB 636 words, US 642 words. Improved high score visualization for Word of the Day.
17.3.9 Sep 27
Dictionaries: DE 567 words, GB 629 words, US 635 words. Word of the day now shows high scores.
17.3.8 Sep 19
More suitable randomization of words in word-of-the-day games. Dictionaries: DE 565 words, GB 628 words, US 634 words.
17.3.7 Sep 12
Newly introduced: Highscores for word-of-the-day games.
Improve your score by extending your streak and guessing the words in as few rounds as possible.
17.3.6 Sep 9
Newly introduced: Highscores for word-of-the-day games.
Improve your score by extending your streak and guessing the words in as few rounds as possible.
17.3.5 Sep 8
Extended dictionaries (DE 558 words, GB 621 words, US 627 words), improved invitations to online matches.
17.3.3 Aug 18
dictionaries improved; they now have DE 546 words, GB 591 words, and US 594 words, underlying frameworks updated.
17.3.2 Jul 7
Dictionaries extended: DE 544 words, GB 588 words, US 590 words.
New: All letter color codes can be reset by long-pressing the backspace key.
17.2.0 Jun 26
"Did you know"-message introduced on start-up and dictionaries extended: DE 542 words, GB 529 words, US 531 words.
17.0.8 Jun 23
improved size of software keyboards for some devices, extended dictionaries: DE 542 words, GB 526 words, US 528 words
17.0.4 Jun 15
Fixed a layout problem in portrait format, dictionary extended: DE: 542 words, GB: 525 words, US: 527 words
17.0.3 Jun 12
dictionaries were extended: DE 541 words, GB 522 words, US 524 words,
preparation for dictionary updates
17.0.2 Jun 11
This version has an updated software keyboard: use simple taps to type in a letter, use long-presses to change the color-state of a letter.
GameCenter matchmaking and achievements have been removed, cross platform matches with Android are now enabled.
17.0.1 May 27
Thank you for continuing to suggest words. Our dictionary now holds 493 DE and 504 EN words. Remember, valid words are common nouns in singular form, only using letters A-Z, and without duplicate letters, like TRIAL or SPORT.
Try out the 2 players game (via Game Center) with nearby players who are on the same local network, or send invites to your Game Center Friends.
1.46 09/21/2025
Thank you for continuing to suggest words. Our dictionary now holds 486 DE and 504 EN words. Remember, valid words are common nouns in singular form, only using letters A-Z, and without duplicate letters, like TRIAL or SPORT.
Try out the 2 players game (via Game Center) with nearby players who are on the same local network, or send invites to your Game Center Friends.
New: You can earn achievements when logged in to Game Center.
1.45 09/08/2025
Game Center matches with friends and nearby players are now enabled (Log in to Game Center before launching the game, and activate "Nearby Players" in System Settings/Game Center). Some achievements can be unlocked.
1.44 08/01/2025
Thank you for suggesting new words. This version contains more words than ever (DE 457 / EN 483) as well as bug fixes in layout/UI and further preparations for Game-Center matches.
1.42 07/14/2025
more extensive dictionaries (DE: 450 words, EN: 482 words), fixed bugs especially around two-player mode.
1.41 07/07/2025
This version supports more words (DE: 447, EN: 481). Also a few bugs were fixed and performance improvements implemented.
1.4 07/02/2025
Thank you for plenty of word suggestions, making this version better than ever:
==Improved in this version==
-Vocabulary: DE 442 words, EN 478 words.
-Software keyboard is now hidden during games when users scroll in the list of guessed words
-Improved compact mode for letter status area in games; does not obscure the list of guessed words anymore
-Improved tutorial; more tutorial content, info bubbles are better positioned, relevant view elements are highlighted, tutorial can be cancelled.
==New functionality==
-Cancel game. Sometimes you just can't figure it out. By tapping the red "X" you can give up and uncover the secret word.
-Suggest a word. You're running out of ideas for words? Tap on the speech bubble and receive a suggestion.
-Check letter status. If you want to play safe and check the letters you have identified, tap the "Magnifier". Letters you misclassified will be set to "unknown".
1.3 06/22/2025
Thank you for plenty of word suggestions, making this version better than ever:
==
Improved in this version==
-Vocabulary: DE 438 words, EN 466 words.
-Software keyboard is now hidden during games when users scroll in the list of guessed words
-Improved compact mode for letter status area in games; does not obscure the list of guessed words anymore
-Improved tutorial; more tutorial content, info bubbles are better positioned, relevant view elements are highlighted, tutorial can be cancelled.
==New functionality==
-Cancel game. Sometimes you just can't figure it out. By tapping the red "X" you can give up and uncover the secret word.
-Suggest a word. You're running out of ideas for words? Tap on the speech bubble and receive a suggestion.
-Check letter status. If you want to play safe and check the letters you have identified, tap the "Magnifier". Letters you misclassified will be set to "unknown".
1.2 06/19/2025
More words. German: 410 words, English 464 words. Dictionary page allows to switch language (DE and EN)
Voting section available in dictionary,
Added new, optional state for letters: (maybe included: light green/gray).
Keyboard for Letter Status can be collapsed/expanded. Collapsed view only shows included/maybe included letters.
Fixed problem with trimming whitespaces of words that made words seem unknown even though they were known.
Additional options for help: give up, check letter status, propose word.
When providing unknown words, the dialog explains the requirements on words again.
Fireworks now trigger subtle pop sounds
Added another song by mobygratis, now 5 songs in total (mobygratis.com)
1.1 06/10/2025
-Word of the day high scores are kept for 7 days. Climb the table by extending your streak and guessing more words. After 7 days with no new score, the entry is removed.
-Optionally look up a meaning for word-of-the-day words: "What does this word mean?" opens your browser on ecosia.org.
-Thank you for proposing so many nouns. Dictionaries: DE 600 words, GB 668 words, US 674 words.
more Version 17.4.2 6d ago
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