Every word in the 50,000-word dictionary is converted into a vector — a list of 1,536 numbers that captures what the word means, based on how it's used across billions of sentences. Words that appear in similar contexts end up with similar vectors. Ocean sits close to sea; candle sits close to wick and flame.

When you guess a word, Semantic Wordle computes the distance between your guess's vector and the target's. It then ranks your guess against every other word in the dictionary — rank #1 means you nailed it; rank #50,000 means you're as far as you can be.

The compass hints come from comparing your guess to the target along twelve pre-defined axes — temperature, age, weight, emotion, danger, aliveness, and others. The two axes with the largest gap become your hints. This is the key addition over Contexto and Semantle, which only give you a number.