Xordle Unlimited
Two secret words, one board. The clues are tangled — you untangle them.
What is Xordle?
Xordle hides two five-letter words in a single board — and the two words never share a letter. Every guess is scored against both answers at once, and each tile shows the best result: green if that letter sits in that position in either word, yellow if it appears anywhere in either word, grey if it is in neither. You have nine guesses to name both words exactly.
That combined feedback is what makes Xordle feel so different from Dordle, where each word has its own board. Here a row can show four greens and still be wrong — because those greens belong to two different answers. The game is less about finding letters and more about attributing them: deciding which clue belongs to which hidden word.
How to play Xordle
- Type any valid five-letter word and press Enter.
- Read the combined clues: green and yellow tiles may belong to either hidden word.
- Remember the golden rule — the two answers share no letters.
- Guess a word exactly to reveal it; the remaining rows then score only against the other word.
- Name both words within nine rows to win.
Xordle strategy
The no-shared-letters rule is your scalpel. The moment you confirm a letter belongs to one answer, you have also proven it is not in the other — every deduction cuts both ways. Early on, treat yellows with suspicion: a yellow E might belong to either word, and chasing it in the wrong one burns rows fast. A useful habit is to build one candidate word at a time; solving the first answer instantly purifies the board, because everything that remains belongs to the second.
Watch for impossible overlaps too. If your greens spell out T_A_E and a yellow R is still floating, TRACE would claim the R — but if you already placed R in the other word, the no-overlap rule eliminates TRACE without spending a guess.
Frequently asked questions
Can the two words share a letter?
Never — that is the defining Xordle rule. Ten distinct letters are always in play across the two answers, which is exactly what makes clue attribution solvable.
What happens when I find the first word?
It is revealed in the slot above the board, and every guess after that scores only against the remaining word — the clues turn "pure" for the endgame.
Do greens mean I have the word?
Not necessarily. Because tiles show the best of both words, a row of greens can be assembled from both answers at once. You only clear a word by guessing it exactly.
Is this the official Xordle?
No — Xordle was created by K & R Garfield; this is an independent, fan-made unlimited version with its own word list, built for Wordle Unlimited and not affiliated with the original or The New York Times.