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Daily Word #836

#836 · Oct 165 lettersArchive: not ranked

How to play

Type a five-letter word and press Enter. Every guess must be a real word.
Each letter is marked: ✓ right letter in the right spot, ↔ in the word but in another spot, or not in the word at all.
Letters can appear more than once. A letter is only marked as many times as it appears in the answer.
You have six guesses. The on-screen keyboard shows what you have learned about each letter.

Daily Word #836 is the puzzle from Friday, October 16, 2026 (5 letters). Archive puzzles count toward your statistics, not your streak or the leaderboard.

Archive games count toward your statistics, not your streak or the leaderboards.

About Daily Word #836

Daily Word #836 was the puzzle for Friday, October 16, 2026: a 5-letter word to find in 6 guesses. Everyone who played Daily Word that day got the same puzzle, and it stays here to play for 60 days.

New to Daily Word? The rules, tips and common questions are on the Daily Word page, and Daily Word Strategy: Openers and Logic goes into strategy.

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