WORLDE INDEX

Wordle Spinoffs: The Complete and Authoritative Index

Comprehensive list includes Quordle, Octordle, Globle, Factle, Heardle, and so many more

All the Wordle spinoffs. All in one place. You’re welcome, word-puzzle fans!

Wordle is now part of our everyday vocabulary. At least our 5-letter vocab. And I couldn’t be happier about it. Even better, it’s spawned a gigantic number of spinoffs. But for some reason, many of these spinoffs are hard to find. So I’ve compiled them all here—now up to over 90 and counting! Keep sending me recs and I’ll add them to this list. If you’re like me and can’t remember where to find all these variants, just bookmark this page.

• Hello Wordl was the first spinoff I tried. I like it because you can keep playing, plus you can challenge others. Otherwise it’s very similar to Wordle.
• ALPHALOCK is possibly the closest match to the game I used to play with my mom when I was a kid. It’s Wordle-like, but the fun twist with the green and yellow squares is that you don’t know which letter they correspond to. Give it a try. You get 10 guesses instead of the standard 6, and at first you might need them all.
• Worchle is a new word search–based game.
• Fibble is Wordle, with the twist of a lie in the mix.
• The Wordshift builds on Wordle but keeps going.
• Wrodeo is a literary-based word game.
• Picsey is Wordle with pictures.
• WordRaid is an app but looks promising.
• Absurdle is a cranky version of Wordle.
• Dordle is 2 words.
• Trordle is 3 words.
• Quordle is 4 words.
• Sixordle is 4 words, but six-letter ones.
• Hexordle is 6 words.
• Octordle is 8 words.
• Decordle is 10 words.
• Sedecordle is 16 words.
• Hexadecordle is also 16 words. Weird?
• Duotrigordle. Yep. It’s 32 words.
• Sexaginta is … a lot of words.
• Kilordle is … even more words than that. Like nearly a thousand more.
• Septle used to be really obscure words, but now it’s a combo pack: a 7-letter word, a 6-letter word, and the daily Wordle word. Three games in one.
• Xordle is 2 Wordles for the price of one.
• Hardle is harder Wordle.
• Fyvaa is 1 word and 5 letters, but only 5 chances to get it right! Eek.
• Blossom is from the new owners of Quordle. A fun spin on the Spelling Bee format.
• Referdle is new. Check it out.
• Lingpal is for learning a language, Wordle-style.
• Globle is guess the country. Take as many guesses as you need.
• Worldle is also find the country, but in this case, you see a picture of the country and try to guess based on that.
• Daydle is for history buffs.
• ArchiGuesser is Wordle for architects.
• Nerdle is Wordle math.
• Segmentle is math in columns.
• German Wordle.
• Spanish Wordle.
• French Wordle.
• Italian Wordle.
• Dutch Wordle.
• Irish Wordle.
• Hungarian Wordle.
• Indonesian Wordle.
• Ukrainian Wordle.
• Portuguese Wordle.
• Greek Wordle.
• Turkish Wordle.
• Hindi Wordle.
• Japanese Wordle.
• Polish Wordle.
• Hebrew Wordle.
• Klingon Wordle.
• Esperanto Wordle.
• Canadian Wordle, eh?
• Australian Wordawazzle, mate?
• Framed lets you guess a movie.
• Episode is for TV shows.
• Plotwords lets you guess a movie based on keywords.
• Posterdle lets you guess a movie based on its movie poster.
• Moviedle lets you guess a movie based on a very fast viewing of it.
• History Challenge is for history buffs.
• Pickle is for baseball fans.
• Poeltl is for basketball fans.
• NBA Guess is also basketball related.
• Gordle is for hockey fans.
• Semantle is guess the word by guessing synonyms. Can take over 100 guesses to get it.
• Pimantle is like Semantle above, but with a visual graphic.
• Squareword is Wordle, but as a 5x5 grid, with words going both across and down.
• Squardle is complicated. If you figure it out, let me know! (A reader did figure it out, too! Check the comments for a very detailed explanation.)
• Squaredle (not to be confused with Squardle above) is a tile-swapping game.
• Waffle is similar to Squareword, just tastier-sounding.
• Cadoggle is a word ladder game.
• Mathler is very much Wordle+math. Give it an add.
• Numble is another math puzzle.
• Wordle for kids is exactly what it sounds like. Get ’em hooked young!
• Reversle starts the answer, you just have to get words to fit. Goal is speed here.
• Crosswordle feels similar to Reversle.
• Pictle is like Reversle, only it uses the official Wordle answer from a week prior.
• Dawdl is where you try to make as many guesses as possible before solving.
• Sweardle is for cursing.
• Turdle is 💩.
• Moistle will be hard to hear.
• Lewdle is crudle.
• Heardle is Wordle for songs.
• VGM Heardle is for video game theme music.
• Gamedle is for video game images.
• MusicVidle is for music videos.
• Box Office is Wordle for movie attendance.
• Musicle is like Heardle, but separated into genres.
• Warbl is like Heardle, only the music is played in reverse. Now that’s ykcirt!
• Beatle is a lyric memorization game (unrelated to the Fab Four).
• Factle is all about trivia.
• Wordle Unlimited has longer words and challenges.
• WordleWordle is 10 letters. A bit much, if you ask me.
• Wordle2 is 6 letters.
• Polydle lets you pick your poison, poison being anywhere from 1–2000+ words. Yeesh.
• Wordle Archive — head here to play previous words from the official Wordle archive.
• Phourword is something a little different. More of a mix and match, move the letters around thing.
• ScramIt is from the maker of Phourword and is a timed word-unscrambling game.
• Brdl. It’s for the birds.
• Pundle is punny.
• Unlockle is Wordle with dots.
• Flagdle is Wordle with flags.
• Quofee is Wordle with movie quotes.
• Bardle is for fans of Shakespeare.
• Squirdle is for Pokémon fans.
• Dungleon is for D&D fans.
• Murdle is Wordle + Hangman.
• Quizl is daily trivia.
• Word-in-one is a cool variant.
• Swordle is Star Wars Wordle. Use the Force while playing it.
• Invisidle is invisible Wordle. Good for that short-term memory workout.
• Antiwordle is antithetical to Wordle.
• Don’t Wordle is similar to Antiwordle, but also oddly much harder.
• It’s chess made easy with Chessle.
• Wheredle: Like Carmen Sandiego, but Wordle style.
• Hurdle is a series of Wordles, all together in one.
• WordALL is a series of Wordles, all at once.
• Coderdle is for the techies.
• Redactle lets you act like you’re a spy.
• Artle lets you guess at famous works of art.
• Paintle lets you guess famous paintings.
• Phrazle lets you guess a common phrase.
• Marvle is Wordle for comic book characters.
• Facedle is Wordle for famous faces.
• Emojied is Wordle with emoji.
• Housle is for realtors.
• Scordle lets you see how you did after you played Wordle.
• Wordle Bot is like Scoredle, only it has just the official Wordle answers included.
• Wordle Tools is a great suite of gameplay feedback that anyone can use (no NYTimes subscription required). It includes Mordle and Griddle.

Check out my previous Wordle story for a deeper dive and better explanation of many of these fun spinoffs.

All the Wordle Spinoffs You Can Handle

And for those who came here wanting to learn more about the original Wordle, look no further.

Everything You Need to Know About Wordle, the Word-Guessing Game That’s Sweeping the Nation