Press and research use

Media contact

Email [email protected]. Please include your publication, deadline, the finding or tool you are covering, and whether you need a specific CSV cut or clarification of the method.

Project facts

• Name: FiveLetterWords.
• Creator: Matthew, identified on the About page.
• What it is: an independent site for Wordle solving, five-letter word research, strategy experiments, and word games.
• Method: deterministic solver calculations over documented captured word lists, alongside clearly separated opt-in Observatory aggregates.
• Affiliation: FiveLetterWords is not affiliated with or endorsed by The New York Times. Wordle is a trademark of The New York Times Company.
• Current immutable research release: v2026-09-01, published 2026-09-01, with answer-history aggregates through 2026-08-31.

Use a finding responsibly

1. Link to the specific article, chart, or immutable release page—not only the homepage.
2. State the data cutoff, captured pool, and measure named beside the finding.
3. Describe solver pressure as a model comparison within the recorded archive, not global human difficulty.
4. Describe Observatory results as thresholded, opt-in and self-selected, not representative of all players.
5. Keep answer appearances separate from distinct answer words when discussing repeats.

Start at the research catalog, use the developer reference for file and feed contracts, and read The Math for the solver measures.

For repeat coverage, use the living Wordle repeat tracker. It separates distinct reused words from repeat appearances, shows the complete worldwide-finished evidence table in controlled HTML, and provides answer-word-free aggregate CSV, JSON, SVG and PNG assets.

Current specialist sources include the What makes a Wordle hard? solver study and the Echoes pronunciation-graph release. Both provide a claim-led figure, public methods, checksums, reuse terms and a copyable citation.

For a current overview, open the living Wordle statistics reference, the opt-in Wordle Observatory, or the Wordle #2000 milestone report. Each keeps its population and method beside the figure.

Citation and licensing

Each immutable release page supplies its own citation, visible caveats, manifest, file checksums, methods, and provenance. Derived statistics and release documentation are available under CC BY 4.0. A preserved upstream answer-pool snapshot, where supplied, is explicitly excluded from that grant and retains its source terms.

When quoting editorial copy or reproducing other site material, contact Matthew if the intended use is not covered by the stated data license. See Licenses for third-party attributions.

Downloadable brand assets

Please do not alter the name, imply NYT affiliation, or place a required keyword-rich link inside an embed. A normal editorial credit to FiveLetterWords and the specific source page is sufficient.

Verification and corrections

Published release files are immutable, so a corrected dataset receives a new release ID rather than silently replacing cited bytes. Editorial pages may be corrected in place with their visible data cutoff kept separate from their editorial update date.

Correction ledger: no material corrections have been recorded for the public research releases or milestone assets as of 30 August 2026. A future correction will list its date, affected URL or release, original issue, and resolution here.

If a calculation, label, source, or description appears wrong, email [email protected] with the page URL, release ID where applicable, and enough detail to reproduce the issue.