About and credits

Five Guesses is a free word puzzle. Each puzzle shows one real five-letter word coloured against a hidden answer. You find any word that produces the same colours. There are five languages, a daily set of five puzzles, a daily word hunt, and a Hard mode.

Word lists

The word lists for English, French, German, Spanish and Dutch were generated from these open sources:

• wordfreq by Robyn Speer, word frequency data licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
• Hunspell spelling dictionaries via the dictionaries packages, used to keep only correctly spelled words. Each dictionary keeps its own licence.
• List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words, licensed under CC BY 4.0, used to remove offensive words.

The word list files in the /data/ folder of this site are shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Accents are removed, so every word uses the letters A to Z.

Fonts

Unbounded and DM Sans, both licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Not affiliated

This is an independent word puzzle game. All names and trademarks mentioned belong to their owners.