Disclaimer
This page is here for the sake of being clear about what pastwordlewords.com is, what it is not, and what the archive on this site can and cannot do for you. It is written to be honest rather than to look like a template, which means it is a little longer than the usual boilerplate and a little more specific.
No affiliation with the New York Times
Pastwordlewords.com is an independent reference site. It is not owned by, operated by, endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with The New York Times Company, the makers of Wordle, or Josh Wardle, the creator of the original game. Wordle is a registered trademark of The New York Times Company. The name is used on this site only to describe the game the archive relates to, which is a form of nominative use permitted under trademark law. If you are looking for the official Wordle experience, or the official archive of past puzzles, both are at nytimes.com.
The archive on this site is a record of publicly available answers, maintained independently.
Accuracy of the archive
Every entry on the site is verified before publication and cross-checked against a second independent source when it goes in. The daily update is automated, and if anything goes wrong with the update, the gap is filled by hand rather than left in place.
That said, no data source is infallible, and mistakes do occasionally happen — a mistyped letter, a date misread across time zones, a puzzle whose answer was changed after publication. If you spot something that looks wrong, the contact page is the fastest way to have it corrected. Genuine mistakes are fixed the same day they are reported, once verified.
The site does not guarantee that every entry is correct at every moment. What it does commit to is transparency: if you can show that something is wrong, it gets fixed and the correction is visible.
The archive intentionally excludes today
Every list, table, and lookup on this site runs through yesterday only. Today’s Wordle answer is stored on the server so tomorrow’s archive is correct, but it is not shown on the archive pages. This is deliberate. A player who arrives here mid-puzzle should not be able to spoil themselves by accident, no matter where they scroll or what they search.
If you specifically want today’s answer, the today page shows it, hidden by default behind a click. That is the one place on this site where today’s word is intentionally reachable.
Statistics and analysis
The statistics page describes patterns in the answers that have already been used. It is not, and does not claim to be, a prediction of what will come next, a strategy guide, or a professional analysis. The numbers on that page are what they are: a description of past data. Any inference you draw from them about future puzzles is yours to draw.
The New York Times chooses answers by an editorial process this site has no insight into. Past patterns may or may not continue.
No professional advice
Nothing on this site is professional advice of any kind. The archive is a reference and the site’s opinions, where they appear, are the opinions of its maintainer. Nothing here should be used to make decisions that matter beyond a five-letter word puzzle.
External links
The site occasionally links to external pages — the official New York Times Wordle page, for example, or a specific news article. Those pages are the responsibility of the sites that publish them. Content on external sites may change or disappear without notice, and the accuracy of anything on a linked page is not something this site can vouch for.
External links are provided for context and convenience. They are not an endorsement of everything on the linked site.
Advertising and affiliate links
The site does not currently show advertising or use affiliate links. If either changes in the future, the privacy policy will be updated first, and any commercial link on the site will be clearly identified where it appears. There is no plan to disguise a paid recommendation as an editorial one, and there will not be one.
Fair use of the archive
Anyone is welcome to use the archive on this site for personal reference, research, curiosity, or writing about Wordle. If you want to reproduce a substantial portion of the archive elsewhere — for a news article, a video, a research project — a mention of pastwordlewords.com as the source is appreciated, though not legally required for the underlying puzzle answers themselves, which are public facts.
The specific way the archive is organised, presented, and analysed on this site is the work of the maintainer, and copying that presentation wholesale without credit is neither friendly nor useful to your own readers, who would be better served by a link.
Contact
Questions about anything on this page can be sent to hello@pastwordlewords.com.
This disclaimer will be updated if any of the facts above change.