🦫 Capy Word: a Daily Word Game for Kids

Guess today’s secret word in six tries. After each guess the letters turn teal (right spot), orange (in the word, wrong spot) or gray (not in the word). Younger players can switch to Kids mode: 4-letter words with a clue. Want more? Free play gives you unlimited words in three levels: Easy, Medium and Very hard.

How to play

1. Type any real 5-letter word and press Enter.
2. Look at the colors. Teal letters are in the right place. Orange letters are in the word but somewhere else. Gray letters aren’t in the word at all.
3. Use those clues for your next guess. You have six tries.
4. Come back tomorrow for a new word and keep your streak going 🔥.

Unlimited word game: Free play with 3 levels

One word a day not enough? Free play is an unlimited word game for kids. Easy uses 4-letter words with a clue — great for kindergarten to 2nd grade and English learners. Medium is the classic 5-letter puzzle. Very hard uses 6-letter words and “hard rules”: any letter you’ve found must be used again. See how many words in a row you can solve, then share your streak and challenge a friend.

Tips for young word detectives

Start with a word full of common letters. Words with vowels like A, E and O and popular consonants like R, S, T and L tell you the most — try stare, other, plate or raise. In Kids mode, tear, lane or rose are good starters.

Don’t reuse gray letters. The keyboard turns gray letters dark so you remember which ones are out.

Move the orange letters. An orange letter is in the word, just not in that spot. Try it somewhere new.

Think about letter patterns. English words often end in -ER, -LY, -CH or -SH and start with blends like ST, BR or CL. Saying possible words out loud helps.

Why a daily word puzzle is great for kids

A five-minute word puzzle practices spelling, phonics and vocabulary without feeling like homework. Kids sound out letter patterns, use logic to rule letters out, and learn that a wrong guess is useful information — a big growth-mindset lesson. Because there’s only one puzzle a day, it’s a natural stopping point instead of an endless screen.

Families can make it a breakfast or car-ride ritual and compare shared results. Teachers can project the puzzle as a morning bell-ringer: the class votes on each guess and explains their thinking (“It can’t be plant — we know there’s no P!”). The share button copies a spoiler-free grid of colored squares, so nobody gives away the answer.

A word list made for kids

Grown-up word games can land on words kids have never heard. Capy Word answers come from a hand-picked list of 506 familiar five-letter words — apple, tiger, cloud, pizza, robot — and 217 four-letter words for Kids mode, each with its own kid-friendly clue. Your guesses can be any real English word, so strong spellers aren’t held back.