Free daily Welsh word game
Welsh Wordle
It’s called Wyrdol. One Welsh word a day, seven guesses to find the answer.
tywydd — “weather”. Six characters, but five Welsh letters: the final dd is one letter, so it takes one tile.
Is there a Wordle in Welsh?
Yes. Everyone playing gets the same secret Welsh word each day, you have 7 attempts to find it, and a new puzzle arrives at midnight. There is no sign-up, no paywall and no advertising before you play.
It is built for Welsh speakers and Welsh learners alike. The interface has an English/Welsh toggle, so you can read the instructions in English while the answers stay Welsh.
How a guess works
Guess a 5-letter Welsh word. The tiles change colour to tell you how close you were.
- ffrind
ff is in the word, in the right place.
- calon
o is in the word, but somewhere else.
- llawer
a is not in the word at all.
The bit that surprises everyone
Eight letters that look like two
Welsh has eight digraphs — pairs of characters that are a single letter of the Welsh alphabet, with a single sound. Wyrdol gives each one its own tile, exactly like a or m.
Type d twice and the game joins them into one dd. The on-screen keyboard has a key for each, so you never have to work out how to enter one.
- ch
bach — small
like 'ch' in Scottish 'loch'
- dd
dydd — day
like 'th' in 'this'
- ff
coffi — coffee
like 'f' in English
- ng
angel — angel
like 'ng' in 'sing'
- ll
llyfr — book
a uniquely Welsh voiceless lateral with no English equivalent
- ph
ei phen — her head
like 'f' — appears mostly in mutations
- rh
rhedeg — to run
a voiceless 'r' with breath
- th
athro — teacher
like 'th' in 'thin'
Is it any good for Welsh learners?
Yes, and that is much of why it exists. Three things make it work for learners rather than only for fluent speakers.
- Everyday answers
- The daily word comes from common Welsh vocabulary, not obscure literary forms.
- Generous guessing
- Guesses are checked against a wide wordlist built from Bangor University's open lexicon, so the mutated and inflected forms you half-remember are usually accepted.
- You keep the word
- When the puzzle ends, the answer's English meaning is shown — so a puzzle you lost still leaves you with a word.
Daily play is unusually good practice for spelling, too: the digraph tiles make you think about Welsh orthography as Welsh, rather than as English with extra consonants.
Can I play older puzzles?
Yes. Choose Play past puzzles on the Wyrdol start screen to open the archive and work through earlier days at your own pace. Archive puzzles are kept separate from the daily game, so the back catalogue never disturbs your streak.
More Welsh games
- WyrdolThe daily Welsh WordleGuess the day's secret five-letter Welsh word in seven tries.
- Cwch GwenynA Welsh spelling beeMake as many Welsh words as you can from seven letters.
See all our Welsh word games — who each suits, and how long a game takes.
Today’s word is waiting
It takes a couple of minutes, and you will know one more Welsh word by the end of it.
Play today’s WyrdolWyrdol’s interface is Welsh by default, with an English toggle at the top of the page.