Semantle

How to play

1. 01

   Guess a word

   Type any single word. You have unlimited guesses.

2. 02

   Read its similarity

   Each guess gets a similarity score. The higher it is, the closer your word is in meaning to the secret word.

3. 03

   Get within a thousand

   Once a guess is among the thousand words nearest the secret word, the proximity column tells you how near it is.

4. 04

   Hint or give up

   Scroll down during a game to ask for a hint, a word slightly better than your best guess, or to give up and see the answer.

Good to know

• A score, not a rank. Most guesses only get a similarity score. Closeness out of 1,000 shows up only once you're in the top thousand words.
• Know the range. The game tells you how similar the nearest, tenth-nearest and thousandth-nearest words are, so you can judge your own scores.
• More to play. The archive has every past game of Semantle and Semantle Junior, and you can play today's word with friends as a team.