WordleLike

Word Games Like Wordle: Letter and Semantic Puzzles

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

11 games

Word games like Wordle are the ones that still hide English (or slang) in a grid — they just change the contract. Waffle makes you swap. Squaredle is a word search. Betweenle hides a word alphabetically between two others. Semantle and Contexto score meaning, which is what people mean by “the Wordle game that’s like deep.” Absurdle cheats on purpose.

Lewdle is the 18+ “sexual Wordle like games” result. It is labelled as such on this site. The hardest Wordle-like games in the word family (Semantle, Absurdle) are also listed on the hardcore ladder so both search paths work.

Compare word mechanisms

MechanismGamesFeedbackTry limit
Letter placeWordle, LewdleGreen / yellow / grey6
SwapsWaffleColour + 15 moves15 swaps
Grid swipeSquaredleWord found or notFind them all
In-betweenBetweenleRange / similarity6
SemanticsSemantle, ContextoSimilarity or rankUnlimited
AdversarialAbsurdleStandard tiles, moving targetUntil it yields
Grid reconstructionCrosswordleFinal word + tile colorsDaily / unlimited modes

Deep Wordle: Semantle and semantic games

If you searched “the Wordle game that’s like deep,” you want Semantle (David Turner, January 2022) or Contexto. Neither cares whether letters overlap. Semantle is famous for being slow and hard; Contexto returns a rank from an embedding. Both are unlimited-try dailies.

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