About WordCue

About WordCue

WordCue is a set of free tools and guides for people who play word games — Scrabble, Words With Friends, Wordle, Quordle and Octordle — and want a quick, honest way to check a word, find a play, or learn the rules.

It's built as a progressive web app that runs entirely in your browser, with no account system and no server storing anything about you.

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What WordCue does

WordCue bundles a dictionary of more than 350,000 English words along with tools built around it: word finders, anagram and pattern solvers, rack optimisers, score calculators, and solvers for Wordle, Quordle and Octordle. It also includes plain-language guides explaining how each game works and how to get better at it.

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Who it's for

WordCue is for casual and competitive players alike — someone checking whether a tricky tile rack forms a valid word, someone stuck on today's Wordle, or someone who just wants to learn the rules of a game they've never played before.

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A privacy-first, client-side design

WordCue has no accounts and no backend server that processes your searches. The dictionary and the pronunciation and definition data it uses are bundled with the app and cached locally, so lookups happen on your device rather than being sent anywhere.

Your search history and any favourites you save are stored only in your browser's localStorage, and you can clear them at any time from Settings. Nothing about your usage is transmitted to a WordCue-run database, because no such database exists.

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Works offline as a PWA

WordCue is installable as a progressive web app. A service worker caches the app itself along with the dictionary and word-data shards it needs, so once it's loaded, most of the toolkit continues to work without an internet connection.

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Independence

WordCue is an independent project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Hasbro, Mattel, Zynga, The New York Times, or the makers of Wordle, Quordle or Octordle. Game names are used only to describe the rules and formats our tools help with.

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