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How to play Semantle

Guess a secret word with only a similarity score to guide you, computed from how words are used rather than what they mean to you.

Publisher
Semantle
Cost
Free
How often
One puzzle a day
Time
10 minutes to give up

The rules

  1. Guess any word; you get a similarity score against the secret word.
  2. If your guess is among the thousand nearest words, you also get a rank.
  3. Guesses are unlimited.
  4. Similarity comes from a word-embedding model, not a thesaurus.
  5. Variants exist with more or fewer hints.

What works

  • Purest version of the semantic-guessing idea
  • Unlimited guesses mean the only real failure is quitting
  • Genuinely teaches you something about how words cluster
  • Free and account-free

What doesn’t

  • Substantially harder than Contexto, which gives clearer feedback
  • Raw similarity numbers are less legible than a plain rank
  • Can go a very long time with no sense of progress
  • The model's associations are occasionally indefensible

Skip Semantle if: Anyone who wants to finish reliably — Contexto is the friendlier entry point to the same idea

Questions about Semantle

What is the difference between Semantle and Contexto?

Both hide a word and score guesses by meaning, but Contexto reports a plain rank while Semantle reports a raw similarity figure, giving a hint of rank only once you are very close. Contexto is the easier of the two to read.

How does Semantle measure similarity?

With a word-embedding model, which places words near each other when they tend to appear in similar contexts. That is not the same as being synonyms, which is why some results feel wrong.

Is there a guess limit in Semantle?

No. Guesses are unlimited, so the puzzle ends when you solve it or abandon it.

If you like Semantle

Contexto5 minutes to an hour — the variance is the gameConnections5–10 minutesMeldle3–8 minutes

Meldle is a different daily puzzle — four words sharing one missing pair of letters. Try today’s → It’s free, needs no account, and here is what it does badly.