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3 letter Wordle

Play Wordle with three-letter words: 1 board and 6 guesses. Free daily puzzle plus unlimited play, no account needed.

How to play 3 letter Wordle

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Play 3 letter Wordle on 128ordle: find one three-letter answer in 6 guesses. Type with your keyboard or tap the on-screen letters, then press Enter to submit.

Reading the clues

  • A guess must be an accepted three-letter English word. British and American spellings are both accepted. Green means the right letter in the right position; yellow means the letter belongs in a different position.
  • Grey means that copy of the letter did not match. If your guess repeats a letter, another copy can still be green or yellow. Use all the rows together to work out how many copies the answer can contain.
  • Enter the exact answer to win. If you use every guess without solving it, the game reveals the answer so you can review your clues.

Why a repeated letter can be grey

In this made-up example, the answer is TEA and the guess is EEL. EEL contains E twice, but TEA has only one E. One E is coloured and the other is grey. A grey duplicate rules out an extra copy, not every E.

A plan for this puzzle

With one board, every clue belongs to the same answer. Keep green letters in position, move yellow letters to a different position, and remember that an answer may repeat a letter. Before using a turn, check your candidate against every earlier row, not just the latest one.

What three letters changes

Each guess shows you only three letters, so you learn less per turn than at any other length, and almost every answer has near neighbours. On one board it is the hardest length to finish in six guesses. On large puzzles it swings the other way: the answer list is small, so much of it is on the boards and ordinary words keep landing as solutions.

Three-letter words come in the biggest rhyming families of any length: BAT, CAT, FAT, HAT, MAT, PAT, RAT, SAT; or BIG, DIG, PIG, RIG, WIG. Two green letters can still leave eight answers.

When the puzzle changes

A new puzzle starts each day at midnight in the UK, and everyone playing this size gets the same one. You can play free without an account. Progress is saved in this browser, and results for the 3-letter edition are kept apart from the classic five-letter game.

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3 letter Wordle with up to 128 boards