Wordsprout

A word that grows one letter at a time

How to play

Every puzzle starts with four scrambled letters. Tap them in order to make a word. When you do, a new letter sprouts, and you make a new word using all of the letters. Keep going until the word is fully grown. The start screen tells you how long it gets.

Any real English word that uses every letter counts. Names don’t.

Hints and Easy mode

Hint keeps the letters you’ve placed that lead to a real word and adds that word’s next letter. You have 10 hints; each one comes back 5 minutes after you use it.

Easy (on the start screen or in the ••• menu) starts every word with a few letters in place, spread out (1 for 4- and 5-letter words, 2 for 6, and 3 for 7 or more), without using hints. Easy games have their own stats.

Questions and problems

Found a word that should count, a bug, or have an idea? Open an issue on GitHub and we’ll get back to you.