About Cascadle

Cascadle is yet another Wordle derivative

Cascadle challenges you to solve a chain of 5 words, progressing from 3 to 7 letters.

Solve one level to unlock the next.

All your previous guesses become clues to the next word you are trying to guess.

The more guesses you make the easier it should get, but your score gets worse.

Try to guess the final word using the smallest number of tiles.

There's a new Cascadle game to play every day.

Who makes it

Reason Factory Ltd, registered in England and Wales. Cascadle has run at cascadle.xyz with a new puzzle every day since February 2026, and that address is the only official one.

If you come across another site called Cascadle with similar rules it's a copy. Yuk!

Where the words come from

Legal guesses are checked against a list built from SCOWL (Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists), maintained by Kevin Atkinson. Deciding which of those words are common enough to be an answer is a separate job, and for that we lean on frequency data from Hermit Dave's FrequencyWords project.

Answers come from a much narrower, hand-checked pool than the guess list, and the chains are generated so that neighbours never drop more than one letter between them. There are enough banked to keep this going for decades, which is either reassuring or alarming.

Credits and licences

The guess list is derived from SCOWL, a collective work whose licence asks that the following notice travel with it:

The collective work is Copyright 2000-2018 by Kevin Atkinson as well as any of the copyrights mentioned below.

Copyright 2000-2018 by Kevin Atkinson

Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell these word lists, the associated scripts, the output created from the scripts, and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. Kevin Atkinson makes no representations about the suitability of this array for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.

SCOWL is assembled from many contributed lists, several of them in the public domain. Among them is the ENABLE word list, whose authors ask to be credited as its originators — so: credit to them, and to Alan Beale for the 12Dicts package. The full SCOWL copyright file lists every component and its terms.

The frequency data that decides which words are common enough to be answers comes from Hermit Dave's FrequencyWords project. Its content is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 and is built from the OpenSubtitles corpora published by OPUS. We use it to weigh how familiar a word is; the frequency figures themselves are not part of the game.

Complaints, bugs and missing words

Found a bug? Think a word should be allowed? Convinced today's answer was a stretch? Send it to [email protected] or say so on Twitter at @wordallgame. Word requests get read.

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