One word a day. Spend little. Brag hard.
Dear Word is a free daily word game where every letter costs coins. Each day all players get the same five-letter word and a bank of 30 coins. Common letters cost more than rare ones, and guessing the full word costs three coins. Leftover coins bank into your wallet, which can rescue you on harder days. The score that matters is how few coins you spent.
Buy letters from an A to Z keyboard: a bought letter reveals every position where it appears, or is marked as a miss. At any point you can pay 3 coins to guess the whole word; a wrong guess reveals nothing. Win by revealing the word or guessing it. Coins you did not spend are your score, and one in three of them banks into your wallet.
Prices follow how common each letter is: E, A, I, O and T cost 4 coins; N, S, R, H and L cost 3; D, C, U, M, F, P, G, W and Y cost 2; and B, V, K, X, J, Q and Z cost 1 coin. Guessing the full word costs 3 coins.
Your wallet is your savings: one in three coins you save on a win is banked, up to a ceiling of 20. If you run out of coins mid-puzzle, your wallet can refill your balance once per day so you can keep playing. Miss a day and your streak resets and your wallet halves, so showing up protects your savings.
A new puzzle arrives at midnight in your local timezone. Everyone in the world gets the same word on the same calendar date, so scores are always comparable with friends.
Yes. Dear Word is free, has no ads and needs no account. It runs in any web browser and can be installed to your home screen like an app. Your streak, wallet and badges are stored on your device.
Dear Word has 61 collectible achievement badges, each one a unique cat, earned for feats like winning at par, guessing with no letters bought, or a 100-day streak. Earned cats live in your stats panel.
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