WordEke

Find the words hiding in the grid.

Tap letters that touch — sideways, up and down, or corner to corner — to trace a word, then bank it. One board a day, the same board for everyone.

WordEke on a phone: the status band reading UK Elementary, 5 of 37 words
and a score of 14%, five found words listed, and a four by four grid of
letters shaded in blue with a count in each square's corner.

The Elementary daily, part-played. Deeper blue means more words start on that square, and the corner number is how many.

How it works

Four things worth knowing

1

Trace a word, then bank it

Tap a letter, then any letter touching it, and keep going. The trail shows where you have been; the tick lights up as soon as the word is real and new. The board quietens while you trace so the trail stays readable.
2

Everyone gets the same board

One puzzle a day, dealt from the date, identical worldwide. Comparing scores means something because you both played the same letters.
3

Two puzzles, two difficulties

Elementary uses gentler words and counts anything from two letters up. Standard uses the full everyday dictionary and counts four letters or more. Finishing either one keeps your streak.
4

Help is free

The shading, the per-square counts and the direction hint all work on the daily and always will. A hinted word costs you half a word on the score, and nothing else.

Words

Which words count depends on where you are

British and American spellings are different dictionaries, not one dictionary with exceptions. Pick the region that matches how you spell and the board is judged against that list.

Dictionary	UK	US
Elementary	14,161	15,093
Standard	60,491	60,251
Competition Unlock	172,004	171,945

Elementary and Standard are the two free dailies. Competition is the tournament-sized list, and it is one of the add-ons below.

Free, and paid

The daily is free. Three things you can add.

Both daily puzzles are free, every day, with no account to make. So is all the help: the shading, the per-square counts and the direction hint work on the daily and always will. There is no advertising, nothing to subscribe to, and no sign-in.

If you want more than one board a day, there are three add-ons. Each is bought once and kept — there is no subscription and they do not expire.

Custom Puzzles
Unlock

Your own board, your own rules: play whenever you like rather than waiting for tomorrow, and adjust the difficulty to suit you.
Dictionaries
Unlock

Adds Competition, the tournament-sized word list above — about 172,000 words against Standard's 60,000.
Themes
Unlock

Choose the colour of the board and the font of its letters.

What you cannot buy is an advantage on the daily. Everyone plays the same board with the same help available, which is the only way comparing scores means anything.

Feedback

Tell us what you think

Anything at all: what you enjoy, what irritates you, what you wish it did. And if the dictionary got a word wrong, report that too. Either on its own is fine, or both together — it is one form.

Enjoying it? A rating on Google Play helps more than anything else you could do for us. The link will appear here once the app is live on the store.

Your feedback Leave this empty if you only want to report a word.

Reporting a word (optional)

Dictionaries are edited by hand and they are never finished. Elementary is deliberately smaller and simpler than Standard, and the British and American lists genuinely differ, so say which you were playing: the same word can be right in one and wrong in another.

The word Letters only, no spaces, hyphens or apostrophes.

Your region

Dictionary in play

What's wrong with it Judge it against the dictionary and region above, not against English as a whole.

Puzzle number (optional) Shown at the top of a shared result, if you have one to hand.

Anything else about this word (optional)

Your email (optional) Only if you'd like a reply. We won't use it for anything else.

Privacy

What the game and this site collect

The app collects nothing

WordEke asks for no Android permissions at all — not even internet access. It cannot send anything anywhere, because it has no way to. Your puzzles, your progress, your streak and your history are stored on your own device and stay there. There are no accounts, no analytics, no advertising and no third-party software development kits in the app.

Uninstalling the app deletes all of it.

This website collects what you type into the form above

If you send feedback or a word report, we store what you typed: your feedback, and for a word report the word, what you said was wrong with it, the region and dictionary you chose, and the puzzle number and note if you gave them. We store your email address only if you chose to leave one. We keep all of it so we can act on it, and we use an email address only to reply to you about what you sent.

To stop the form being abused we also store a one-way hash of your IP address and your browser's user-agent string. The hash cannot be turned back into an IP address. Reports are deleted once they have been dealt with.

Nothing on this site is shared or sold, and there are no tracking or advertising cookies. The page loads its typefaces from Google Fonts, which means Google sees the request for the font files.

Google Play

If you install WordEke from Google Play, Google collects its own data about the installation under its own privacy policy. That is between you and Google; nothing about it reaches us.

Getting in touch

To ask what we hold about you, or to have it deleted, email [email protected].

Find the words hiding in the grid.

Four things worth knowing

Trace a word, then bank it

Everyone gets the same board

Two puzzles, two difficulties

Help is free