Source 1: ENABLE
The first source is the Enhanced North American Benchmark Lexicon (ENABLE), a public-domain English word list. The copy used in this project is distributed by Puzzle Cottage as a five-letter reference list. It contributes 8,636 unique five-letter entries to the dictionary.
ENABLE supplies a broad set of familiar and less familiar English forms. It is useful for candidate searching, but it is not the New York Times' private answer list or a guarantee that every entry is accepted by the official game.
Source 2: Moby Words II SINGLE
The second source is Moby Words II — SINGLE, compiled by Grady Ward. The Moby Project documentation identifies its word lists as public-domain material by grant from the author in January 2001. The source file is the 354,984-entry single-word list; we keep only entries containing exactly five letters from A to Z.
We use the Moby SINGLE source file from a public Moby Project mirror. The original Moby Words II documentation describes the collection and its public-domain status.
The SINGLE list excludes proper nouns, acronyms and multi-word phrases by design, but it includes archaic and less common vocabulary. Some entries may therefore be unfamiliar in everyday conversation.
How we combine and filter the words
- Read the five-letter entries from each source list.
- Normalize letters to lowercase A–Z.
- Discard entries that contain anything other than five alphabetic characters.
- Merge both sources and remove duplicate words.
- Keep a separate 423-word common-word subset for people who prefer a shorter list.
The combined result contains 15,052 unique words. The 8,431 words shared by ENABLE and Moby are counted once, not twice. The dictionary is bundled with the website and filtered in your browser; your search letters are not sent to an external dictionary service.
What this dictionary does not claim
This is a broad English reference and guess dictionary. It is not the official New York Times Wordle solution list, a copy of all official accepted guesses, or a prediction of future daily answers. The official game may reject some entries and accept others that are not in these reference sources.
Our playable game uses the combined list for its own practice and guess validation. The daily answer on this independent site is supplied separately by our daily puzzle data. We do not claim affiliation with or access to the official Wordle answer database.
Why publish the sources? A useful word finder should make its dictionary scope understandable. Naming the sources and filtering method lets visitors judge whether a result is suitable for their puzzle or word game.