# Feetle Canonical page: https://feetle.games/ Last updated: 2026-10-19 > Feetle (feetle.games) is a free daily four-letter word ladder played in the browser. Each day's puzzle gives a start word; change one letter per step, making a real four-letter word each time, until you reach FEET in as few steps as possible. feetle.games is an independent fan-made site that makes and numbers its own daily puzzles, publishes each day's hints the same day and its full answer the next day at 08:00 UTC, and adds an unlimited mode, a hint helper (solver) for any start word and a playable archive. No account, no ads, nothing to install. ## Key facts - Words are four letters and the target is always FEET. - Each step changes exactly one letter and must make a real word. - A new puzzle every day, the same for everyone. ### How to play Feetle Every Feetle puzzle hands you a four-letter start word, and the finish line is always FEET. Change one letter at a time. Each step must be a real word, and letters stay in their spots: you swap them but never shuffle them. A short one: HEAD becomes HEAT (4th letter, D to T), HEAT becomes FEAT, and FEAT becomes FEET. Three steps. That's par for HEAD, since no ladder from HEAD is shorter. Par shows before your first move, and every step over it adds +1 to your result. Undo is free, hints come in three levels, and the full rules are on [how to play Feetle](https://feetle.games/how-to-play). Today's Feetle in play: three steps down from DUMB, and the orange E already matches FEET. ### Stuck on a Feetle? Hints and answers Some start words have only one way out. COLD is one: there are 15 one-letter changes from COLD that make a word, and only COLT gets you any closer to FEET. From there the ladder runs through CELT (a prehistoric stone tool) to FELT and FEET. When you hit a wall, the [Feetle answer page](https://feetle.games/answer) has today's hints in four levels, from the letter to change to the last word before FEET, and the full answer the next day. Playing the Feetle word game on another site? Type its start word into the [Feetle solver](https://feetle.games/solver) for hints, never the answer: steps left, the letter to change, the next word's shape. Two hints in: first the letter to change, then the next word with blanks. ### Feetle vs Wordle People often search "feetle wordle", and the two share a routine: one puzzle a day, the same for everyone. The puzzle itself runs the other way around. - In Wordle the answer is hidden and you get six guesses. In the Feetle word game both ends are on screen from the start, your word at the top and FEET at the bottom. - Wordle words have five letters. Every Feetle word has four. - Wordle colors your letters. Feetle only checks that each word is real and one letter away from the last. - A Wordle score counts guesses. A Feetle score counts steps against par, the length of the shortest possible ladder. The skill is different, too. Wordle rewards knowing which letters turn up most. Feetle rewards knowing which words sit next to each other. MOON to FEET takes five steps (MOON, MOAN, MEAN, MEAT, FEAT, FEET), and there are 9 different five-step routes. Seeing one quickly is the game. Feetle keeps score against par, not guesses: six of these eight days ended on par. ### Feetle and Poople The Feetle word game began as a spin-off of Poople, a daily word ladder where every puzzle ends at POOP. Same rules, different finish line. By chance, in our word list POOP has 12 words one step away and FEET has 12. The idea itself is much older than either game: Lewis Carroll published word ladders as Doublets in Vanity Fair in 1879, with puzzles like turning HEAD into TAIL. Same rules as Poople, different finish line: every Feetle ends on FEET, ready to share. ### Not the League of Legends Feetle There's a second game called Feetle that has nothing to do with words. It's a League of Legends guessing game where you name a champion from a picture of their feet. This site is the Feetle word game only. ### Why this Feetle puzzle differs from other Feetle sites The Feetle word game is played on more than one site, and each one picks its own daily start word. We choose each start word from our own list of 2,507 everyday words, number the puzzles from #1 on Oct 18, 2026, and post each full answer the next day. We don't copy another site's daily word or its word list, so our #5 and someone else's #5 are usually different puzzles. Our word list is also wider than some: 3,852 words built on ENABLE, a public-domain list many word games use, so FETA, FETE, FERN and LEET are all fine. If another site turns down a word that works here, that's its list, not your spelling. The solver has an Only common words switch for exactly that case. Each Feetle answer page goes up the same day with the hints; the full answer follows the next day. ### How hard is today's Feetle? Difficulty in the Feetle word game follows the week: Monday is the gentlest and Sunday the longest. Start words are everyday words; the ones in between can be odder, like CELT or FEOD. | Day | Par | Everyday start words at that par | |---|---|---| | Monday and Tuesday | 4 | 718 | | Wednesday and Thursday | 5 | 943 | | Friday and Saturday | 6 | 318 | | Sunday | 7 | 62 | Sunday's pool is the smallest, because only 62 everyday words in the list sit seven steps from FEET. That's still enough that no start word comes back within a year. SOCK is a Friday-sized ladder: six steps, with 38 shortest routes to choose from. ### Words one step from FEET Every ladder in the Feetle word game ends on one of these 12 words: BEET, DEET, FEAT, FEED, FEEL, FEES, FELT, FRET, KEET, LEET, MEET and WEET. Half of them only change the first letter, so if you can reach any word ending in EET, you're one move from done. When you're stuck, work backward. FEEL comes from HEEL, PEEL or REEL, and FELT from BELT, MELT or PELT. FEES is the busiest junction near the end, with 24 words one step from it, so a plural is often a quick way in: TOES, FOES, FEES, FEET. Of the 3,757 words in our list that can reach FEET at all, 1,428 are exactly 5 steps away, the most common distance. The farthest is UNAU, 13 steps out. 94 words, IRON and ONCE among them, can't get there at all. HEEL to FEET in two steps, both through a neighbor of FEET. ## FAQ ### When does a new Feetle puzzle come out? A new puzzle goes live every day at 08:00 UTC. In the US that's 4 a.m. EDT on the East Coast and 1 a.m. PDT on the West Coast while daylight saving time is on (the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November), and 3 a.m. EST or midnight PST through the winter. In Sydney it's 7 p.m. AEDT from the first Sunday in October to the first Sunday in April, and 6 p.m. AEST the rest of the year. ### Can I play Feetle puzzles I missed? Yes. Every past puzzle is in the Feetle archive, fully playable and linked to its answer page. Replays are saved in your browser but don't count toward your daily streak. ### Why won't Feetle accept my word? There are three reasons a word bounces. It isn't four letters, it changes more than one letter from the word before, or it isn't in our list of 3,852 words. The list has no names, no abbreviations and no slurs or crude words, so a word can be real and still miss. ### Is the Feetle word game free? Yes, and there's nothing to sign up for. The site shows no ads, and your stats stay in your own browser. ### Does Feetle work on phones? Yes. It runs in the browser on phones and computers, with an on-screen keyboard. There's nothing to install. ### What does par mean in Feetle? Par is the length of the shortest possible ladder from the start word to FEET. You can't beat par, only match it; each extra step shows as +1, +2 and so on. ### Is there a Feetle unlimited mode? Yes. Feetle Unlimited deals a fresh start word every round, on easy, medium or hard. It keeps its own scores and never touches your daily streak. ### Where can I find today's Feetle answer? On the answer page: four hints on the day, and the full ladder the next day at 08:00 UTC. For a puzzle from another site, the solver gives hints for its start word. ### Is this the same Feetle as other Feetle sites? No. feetle.games is an independent, fan-made take on the Feetle word game, with its own daily puzzles and numbering. It isn't affiliated with any other website. ### Is it spelled Feetle, feetl or feetke? Feetle: FEET plus the -le ending that Wordle made famous. It gets typed as feetl or feetke a lot (K sits right next to L), and either way you've landed in the right place. ## Pages Each page below has a Markdown version with key facts, the page's content and its FAQ. Every answer page has one too: its URL plus .md. - [Feetle](https://feetle.games/index.md): Today's Feetle puzzle: a four-letter word ladder that always ends at FEET, with rules, hints and FAQ. - [Feetle Answer Today](https://feetle.games/answer.md): Today's Feetle hints (the full answer follows the next day at 08:00 UTC), a hint helper for any start word, and recent answers by month. - [Feetle Unlimited](https://feetle.games/unlimited.md): Feetle Unlimited: endless random word ladders to FEET in three difficulties, separate from the daily streak. - [Feetle Solver](https://feetle.games/solver.md): Feetle solver: a hint helper for any four-letter start word. It tells you how many steps are left, which letter to change and the shape of the next word, never the answer. - [Feetle Archive](https://feetle.games/archive.md): The Feetle archive: every past daily puzzle by month, playable, with a link to each answer page. - [How to Play Feetle](https://feetle.games/how-to-play.md): How to play Feetle: the rules, a worked example, what each message means, par, hints, undo and sharing. - [About Feetle](https://feetle.games/about.md): About Feetle: who runs it, the public-domain word lists it uses and how the daily puzzles are chosen. - [Privacy](https://feetle.games/privacy.md): Privacy: no accounts, no ads, progress in local storage, cookie-free Plausible analytics. - [Terms](https://feetle.games/terms.md): Terms: free personal play, independent fan-made game, provided as is.