Free word games in your browser: guess the hidden word, word search, build words on a shared board and word telepathy with friends.
Online word games are puzzles where vocabulary and associations matter more than reflexes. This shelf has four different ideas: guessing a hidden word, finding words in a grid of letters, building words from tiles and guessing what the other person will think of.
LEXI and Word Search come with dictionaries in several languages, so you can play for fun or practise words in a language you are learning.
None of these games needs a download. Open the address in a browser on your phone or computer and start.
Word games online: Word Meet, Wordtide, Word Search, LEXI: Word Garden.
In LEXI you type a word and the tile colours show which letters are in place, which need to move and which are missing. Answers have 4 to 7 letters, there is one shared word of the day and a 120-level journey. A typo never costs you a try, and you can type into any square.
Word Search has 216 boards across six themes, from animals to space, plus a new board every day. Easy is an 8 by 8 grid with words reading right or down, and hard is 12 by 12 with all eight directions, backwards included.
Wordtide is one endless board where you drag letter tiles to spell words that connect to the ones already there. Longer words, rare letters and bonus squares score more. The game has a daily puzzle and 100 solo levels.
Word Meet is a game for several people. Everyone writes a word based on the previous round, and you win when all players write exactly the same word. It works well at a gathering or on a call, and the score is how many rounds it takes.