About Donutle
Donutle is a free daily word game. There’s one donut of five-letter words a day, the same for everyone, and it takes a few minutes with your coffee.
Who makes it
Donutle is a one-person project by Geoff. There are no ads, no accounts and no tracking: just the game. Here’s how to play.
Tell us what you think
- After you finish a donut, rate it with a thumbs up or down and tell us whether it was too easy, just right or too hard. Ratings are anonymous and help pick future donuts.
- For anything longer, use the feedback form.
- Or email hello@donutle.com.
Support Donutle
Donutle is free to play and always will be. If you enjoy it, you can buy me a coffee to help keep it running. It never gets in the way of the game.
Credits
The word lists are derived from the English Speller Database (formerly SCOWL), github.com/en-wl/wordlist, used under this notice:
Copyright 2000-2026 by Kevin Atkinson
Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell any part of the English Speller Database (ESDB, previously known as SCOWLv2), or word lists created from it, is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and that both the above copyright notice and this notice appear in supporting documentation. Kevin Atkinson makes no representations about the suitability of this database for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
Word frequencies from wordfreq (data licensed CC BY-SA 4.0) helped choose which words make good answers. The frequencies themselves aren’t part of the game.
The type is Rubik and Shrikhand, both under the SIL Open Font License.