Wordle 4 Letters

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How to Play 4-Letter Wordle

Shorter words, sharper thinking. Each guess carries more weight when you've only four letters to play with.

Strategic Challenge
Four letters means every guess gives you less to work with. You'll need sharper thinking and a stronger feel for short words to crack it in six tries.
What's Different?
  • Tighter words mean quicker rounds, but each guess has to earn its place
  • Harder per letter - every attempt needs to fit the grid exactly
  • Short rounds, sharp thinking - fits a coffee break neatly
Game Rules
  • Guess the 4-letter word in six goes or fewer
  • Green letters are in the word and in the right place
  • Yellow letters are in the word but in the wrong place
  • Grey letters aren't in the word at all
Available Modes
How 4-Letter Wordle Differs from the Classic Game

Dropping from five letters to four changes the whole puzzle. This game draws its daily words from a pool of nearly 1,200 common 4-letter words in British English, so the solution is always a word you know. The catch: with only four tiles of feedback per guess, every round tells you less about the answer.

Letter frequency matters even more in short words. In our 4-letter pool the most common letters are A, E, O, R, T, I and L, so an opener built from them almost always colours a tile or two. But short words also cluster into families - RATE, LATE, GATE and DATE differ by a single letter, and telling them apart can burn two or three guesses if you are not careful.

The guess economy flips too. Six goes at four letters sounds generous, but less information per guess means the endgame is often a choice between near-identical words. Strong players spend their first two guesses covering as many distinct letters as possible and only then start solving.

Best Starting Words for 4-Letter Wordle
A good opener uses four distinct letters and favours the most frequent ones in English. All of these are valid words in this game:
  • TALE - two top vowels plus T and L, four of the seven most common letters in the 4-letter pool.
  • RATE - swaps in R, the strongest consonant in short English words; a hit here narrows things down quickly.
  • COIN - covers O and I plus C and N, an ideal second guess when TALE or RATE reveals little.

Whichever you choose, make sure your first two guesses share no letters - testing eight distinct letters is the quickest route to the answer.

Strategy Tips for 4 Letters
  • Never reuse a grey letter. With only four slots, one wasted tile costs a quarter of a guess.
  • Watch out for word families: if you reach _ALE or RA_E, list every fitting consonant before you type - there are usually more than you think.
  • Yellow tiles are gold in short words: a confirmed letter has only three other possible positions, so re-place it straight away.
  • Stuck between several candidates? Spend one guess on a word made of the letters that differ between them - a single probe can separate a whole family.
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4-Letter Wordle FAQ

Not as much as you might expect. There are fewer possible answers, but each guess also returns less feedback, and short words often differ by a single letter. Most players find it faster, not easier.

Six, exactly as in classic Wordle - the grid is simply four tiles wide instead of five. Green means right letter in the right spot, yellow right letter in the wrong spot, grey not in the word.

Every day at midnight local time. Your daily streak and statistics for the 4-letter mode are tracked separately from the classic 5-letter game.

Past daily words cannot be replayed. If one round is not enough, open the mode menu: the hourly word changes every hour, and unlimited mode deals a fresh classic puzzle whenever you fancy.

If four letters feel over too soon, Wordle 6 stretches the same daily duel to six-letter words with far more room for deduction.

Short puzzles pair nicely: after a quick four-letter round, the daily mini crossword takes only a few minutes more and stretches a different set of word muscles.

Free Word Games to Play Online

Five daily puzzles, all in British English. Which one fancies a go today?

Word Connect

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Trace letters on the wheel to fill every target slot in the grid. A free word-connect puzzle, new every day.

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Hive (Spelling Bee)

Build as many words as you can from 7 honeycomb letters. The middle letter must appear in every word - and somewhere in there is a pangram that uses the lot.

Play Spelling Bee Hive Guide

Hangman

The classic word-guessing game. A fresh mystery word every day - pick letters one by one before the stick figure is finished off. Free, no account needed.

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Strategy & Tips

Tips to help you with British English word games.

Best Wordle Starter Words

  • SLATE
  • CRANE
  • AUDIO
  • ROAST
  • ADIEU

Most Frequent Letters

  1. E9.7%
  2. A9%
  3. R8.3%
  4. O6.6%
  5. I6.5%
  6. T6.4%
  7. S5.9%
  8. N5.4%
  9. L5%
  10. C4.7%