44 Wordle Alternatives and Variants

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Quordle

Four boards at once with nine shared guesses.

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Geography

Worldle

A geography alternative: guess the country from its outline.

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Movies

Framed

Six movie stills a day, then name the film.

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Popular Wordle alternatives

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Absurdle

An adversarial Wordle that changes the target as you play.

Expert

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Bandle

Guess the song as instruments are revealed one by one.

Easy

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Betweenle

Guess the word hidden between two others.

Medium

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Cardle

Guess the car from silhouette and spec clues.

Medium

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City Guesser

Watch a street-view clip and guess the city.

Medium

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NYT Connections

Group 16 words into four hidden categories.

Medium

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Contexto

AI ranks how close your guess is to the secret word.

Hard

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Crosswordle

Rebuild a Wordle grid from the final word and tile colors.

Hard

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Dordle

Play two Wordle boards at once with seven tries.

Hard

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Framed

Guess the movie from six still frames.

Medium

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Gartic Phone

Telephone + drawing party game in the browser.

Medium

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GeoGuessr

Guess locations from Google Street View.

Hard

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Globle

Find the mystery country on a 3D globe.

Medium

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Groovle

Unlimited music guessing across selectable genres.

Easy

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Hexcodle

Guess the HEX color code in limited tries.

Hard

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Hum High

A free Heardle-style song quiz.

Easy

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Immaculate Grid

Fill a 3×3 sports grid with unique answers.

Hard

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Lewdle

A rude, 18+ twist on the five-letter word game.

18+

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Nerdle

Guess the daily eight-character math equation.

Medium

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NFLdle

Guess the NFL player from daily clues.

Medium

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Numberle

Solve a daily number equation in six tries.

Easy

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Octordle

Solve eight Wordle boards in 13 guesses.

Expert

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The Password Game

Create a password that satisfies 35 absurd rules.

Expert

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Phoodle

A daily food-themed word puzzle.

Medium

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Pokedle

Identify the Pokémon from its silhouette.

Medium

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Pokemon Wordle

A six-attempt Pokémon guessing puzzle with Pokédex clues.

Easy

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Poople

Climb a four-letter word ladder to POOP.

Easy

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Quordle

Guess four five-letter words at once with nine tries.

Hard

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Semantle

Guess the secret word by semantic similarity.

Expert

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Songless

A daily guess-the-song game in the Heardle tradition.

Easy

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Spotle

Guess the music artist from progressively narrower clues.

Easy

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Squabble

Battle-royale Wordle: last player standing wins.

Hard

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Squaredle

Swipe letters in a daily word-search grid.

Medium

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Squirdle

Guess the Pokémon from type, generation, and stats.

Medium

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NYT Strands

Find theme words in a letter grid.

Hard

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Taylordle

Guess a Taylor Swift–themed word each day.

Medium

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Waffle

Swap letters in a waffle grid in 15 moves.

Medium

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WeWordle

Co-op Wordle you solve with friends.

Medium

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Wordle

Guess the hidden five-letter word in six tries.

Easy

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Wordle Unlimited

Practice Wordle-style guesses without the daily limit.

Easy

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WordleCup

Unlimited multiplayer Wordle matches.

Medium

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Wordsmith

A Wordle-inspired roguelike on itch.io.

Hard

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Worduel

A 1v1 Wordle duel with an optional real-stakes mode.

Hard

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Worldle

Guess the country from its silhouette in six tries.

Medium

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Wordle variants by theme

Alternatives change the subject (songs, maps, math, movies). Variants change the rules (four boards, adversarial, unlimited). Spinoffs cover both. Clones copy the original grid.

Music

Heardle is gone. These checked music guessing games offer daily tracks or unlimited play.

Word

Swap letters, chase meaning, or fight an adversarial dictionary. The word family beyond five green tiles.

Geography

Wordle, but not words: country outlines, a 3D globe, Street View, and city clips.

Math

Compare the checked equation and number puzzles Nerdle and Numberle, including daily and practice modes.

Movies

Framed is the verified daily movie option; unverified TV and poster clones are excluded from the playable list.

Fandom

Pokémon Wordle, Taylor Swift Wordle, cars, food, colour, sports, and other fan daily quizzes with checked hosts.

Hardcore

A checked difficulty ladder from Dordle and Octordle to Absurdle, roguelikes, and the Password Game.

Multiplayer

1v1 duels, battle-royale Wordle, co-op boards, and party games. Pricing and daily status vary by title.

Alternatives, variants, spinoffs, clones

Term	Meaning on this site	Examples
Alternative	Same daily-guess loop, different subject	Worldle, Nerdle, Bandle, Framed
Variant	Still words, different rules	Quordle, Octordle, Absurdle
Spinoff	Anything that followed Wordle’s 2021–22 boom	The catalogue below
Clone	Near-copy of the original grid / GitHub ports	Make-your-own list

Wordle, by Josh Wardle, went public in October 2021. The New York Times Company acquired it in January 2022 for a “low seven-figure sum” and kept it free to play.NYT announcement. The directory links to the game website we last resolved, or labels a community mirror where the original host is offline. We do not publish invented scores.