SOURCES & LICENCES
About our dictionary.
Our helper searches word lists in your browser. Here is where those words come from and how we prepare them.
The general dictionary
We use the dwyl English Words dictionary, published under the Unlicense. It permits use, modification and redistribution, including commercial use. Read the full Unlicense notice.
Our copy uses revision 20f5cc9, downloaded on 13 September 2026.
Familiar five-letter words
Our familiar five-letter group comes from the nyt-wordle-played historical dataset, published under CC0 1.0. We use a snapshot downloaded on 11 September 2026. Words from that snapshot also supplement the general dictionary where needed. Read the full CC0 licence.
This is a fixed list of previously played words. The helper does not look up a daily answer, and past use does not make a word more likely to be today’s answer.
How we prepare the words
We keep lowercase words containing only the letters A–Z, from four to ten letters long. We remove duplicates and separate five-letter words from other lengths. The original source and a rebuild script are retained with the project.
The familiar group applies to five-letter words. Other lengths use the general dictionary, which includes rare words. Suggestions are filtered by your clues and ordered by letter coverage.
Each game has its own dictionary
A word appearing here does not guarantee that your game will accept it. Wattle Puzzles is independent and is not affiliated with The New York Times or the dictionary contributors.