Word Path

WORD PATH

Word Path — Wordle English

Four words hidden in a 5x5 grid: trace each through adjacent letters until every cell is used once. The word-trace puzzle LinkedIn calls Wend.

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How to Play Word Path

Word Path is a daily word-trace puzzle in English. A 5x5 grid holds letters and a handful of grey walls that are fixed before you start. Four words are hidden in it, and you trace each one by starting on a tile and stepping to tiles directly above, below, left or right - never diagonally. The four paths never cross and never share a tile: together they cover every open cell exactly once, so a real word found on the wrong tiles orphans the rest of the board. You are told the four word lengths up front, which is what makes the puzzle fair - every grid we ship is checked to admit exactly one set of four words that tiles it. Daily and unlimited, free, no account, no ads during play.

How Word Path works

Word Path gives you a 5x5 grid of letters with some squares walled off in grey. Four words are hidden in the open squares. You trace each one by pressing a letter and dragging to letters directly above, below, left or right of it - diagonals are not legal moves, which is the rule that separates Word Path from Strands-style word hunts.

The four traces are pairwise disjoint and between them they cover every open square exactly once. So Word Path is as much a packing problem as a word hunt: a genuine word traced on the wrong squares leaves letters that no three remaining words can tile.

You are told the four lengths before you start. That is not a hint - it is part of the puzzle's definition. Every grid we serve is run through an exact-cover solver that enumerates every dictionary word traceable on it and checks that exactly one set of four words of those lengths tiles the board. A grid with two solutions is thrown away and regenerated.

Each of the twenty supported languages has its own word pools, so a Greek or Turkish board is generated from Greek or Turkish words rather than translated from English. Daily puzzles are frozen once served, so a later dictionary edit can never rewrite a day you already played.

Tips & Strategy

1
Start in the corners and dead ends

A cell with only one open neighbour cannot be in the middle of a word - it has to be a first or last letter. Word Path's walls usually create two or three of these, and each one is a nearly-free anchor.

2
Count before you trace

The lengths sum to the open-cell count, so treat it as a packing problem. If a 4-letter region is cut off from the rest by walls, one of the 4-letter words lives there, and no other word can reach it.

3
A real word on the wrong squares is still wrong

Because the four paths tile the board exactly, placing a genuine word where it does not belong orphans letters elsewhere. If you are sure of a word but it is rejected, try the same letters along a different route.

4
Do the longest word last, not first

Six-letter traces have the most possible routes, so they are the hardest to place cold. Lock the short words first; by the time three are down the long one usually has exactly one path left.

More Game Modes

Daily Puzzle

One word per day. 6 guesses. The classic.

Dordle

2 boards, 1 keyboard, 7 guesses.

Quordle

4 boards, 1 keyboard, 9 guesses.

Octordle

8 boards, 1 keyboard, 13 guesses.

Sedecordle

16 boards, 1 keyboard, 21 guesses.

Duotrigordle

32 boards, 1 keyboard, 37 guesses.

Speed Streak

Race the clock. Solve as many words as you can before time runs out.

Semantic Explorer

Navigate meaning space. 30 guesses.

Globle

Find the mystery country. 6 guesses on a paper globe.

Mathle

Guess the daily math equation in 6 tries.

Spelling Bee

Find every word hidden in seven letters. New puzzle daily.

Waffle

Swap the 21 tiles so every row and column spells a word. 15 swaps, par 10.

Strands

Trace hidden theme words on a 6×8 grid. New puzzle daily.

Squaredle

Trace adjacent letters to find every word in the grid.

Queens

Crown each region — one queen per row, column, and colored area.

Chessle

A chess puzzle a day. Drag your moves, submit when ready, learn from the colours.

Dominoes

Lay every domino so each outlined region satisfies its rule.

Binary

Fill a 6x6 grid with suns and moons — balanced lines, never three in a row.

Trace

Draw one line through every cell — numbers in order, walls in the way.

Shikaku

Split the 6x6 grid into rectangles — one clue in each, matching its shape and size.

Flagle

Name the country from its flag. 6 guesses, one tile at a time.

Mini Sudoku

Fill a 6x6 grid so every row, column and 2x3 box holds 1 to 6 once.

Outline

Name the country from its shape alone. 6 guesses.

Travle

Name the countries that link two places by land.

Word Ladder

Turn one word into another, changing a single letter at a time.

Box Words

Spell your way around the box and use all twelve letters.

Unscramble

The day’s letters, jumbled. Put the word back together in six tries.

Quartets

Sixteen words, four hidden groups. Find what connects them.

Mini Crossword

A five by five crossword in your own language, every day.

Deduction

Read the clues, rule out the impossible, find the only grid that fits.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Word Path?
Word Path is a daily word puzzle on a 5x5 grid of letters. Four words are hidden in it. You trace each one by starting on a tile and stepping to orthogonally adjacent tiles - up, down, left or right, never diagonally. Grey walls are fixed before play and are never part of a word. Every open tile belongs to exactly one of the four words.
Is this the same as LinkedIn's Wend?
It is the same puzzle: a 5x5 letter grid with fixed walls, four hidden words, each traced through orthogonally adjacent tiles, together covering every open cell exactly once. LinkedIn ships it as Wend. Wordle Global runs it in 20 languages, without a login, without ads during play, and with an unlimited mode. We are not affiliated with LinkedIn.
How do I play Word Path?
Drag across adjacent letters to trace a word, or use the keyboard: arrow keys move the cursor, Enter starts and extends a trace, Backspace steps back, Escape cancels. Release or press Space to submit. A correct trace locks its tiles; a wrong one shakes and clears. Find all four words to finish.
Why are some squares grey?
Those are walls. They are set before the round begins, never hold a letter, and can never be traced through. The number of walls is 25 minus the four word lengths, so it changes day to day - between 5 and 8. More walls means a more constrained board, which usually means an easier puzzle.
Can two words share a square?
No. The four traces are pairwise disjoint - they never cross and never share a tile. That is what makes a wrong-but-real word informative rather than just wrong: if you place a genuine word on the wrong squares, the remaining letters cannot be tiled by three words of the remaining lengths.
Is there always exactly one solution?
Yes, and we check it rather than assume it. Before a grid ships, every dictionary word traceable on it is enumerated and the open cells are exact-covered against the day's four lengths. The grid is only served if there is exactly one set of four words that tiles it. That is also why you are told the four lengths - the uniqueness guarantee is defined against them.
Why does Word Path show me the word lengths?
Because the lengths are part of the puzzle's definition, not a hint. A grid admits exactly one tiling by four words of the stated lengths; without the lengths there would usually be several ways to cut the board up, and a correct answer would be unverifiable. Showing them is what makes the solve deterministic.
Which languages does Word Path support?
Twenty: Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian. Each has its own word pool, so every language gets its own grid - not a translated English one. The limit is the word data: a language needs curated four-, five- and six-letter pools in a script where one letter is one tile.
Is Word Path free? Do I need an account?
Free, no account, no ads during play. Signing in only adds streaks, cross-device saves and leaderboards. There is a daily puzzle and an unlimited mode that serves a fresh grid on demand.

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