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9 Letter Word Puzzle
A fresh 9 letter word puzzle every day. You get nine letters in a grid with one letter in the centre - make as many words of four letters or more as you can, and every word must use the centre letter. Hidden in there is one word that uses all nine.
It is the nine letter word puzzle Australians know as the Target, free to play in your browser with no sign-up. Stuck? The 9 letter word solver will show you what you missed.
Today's grid - every word must use the centre letter
Four letters or more, always including the centre letter, each letter once per word. One word uses all nine. A new puzzle every day.
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How the 9 letter word game works
- Make words of four letters or more from the nine letters shown.
- Every word must use the centre letter.
- Each letter can be used once per word - the grid has one of each.
- No proper nouns, no hyphens, no abbreviations.
- Exactly one word uses all nine letters. Find it and you have beaten the puzzle.
Scoring follows the newspaper convention: reach a quarter of the words for Good, half for Very Good, and roughly three quarters for Excellent.
A worked example
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Centre letter G · 40 words to find · the nine-letter answer is crumbling.
Some of its answers
- crumbling
- crumbing
- rumbling
- bluming
- burling
- culming
- curbing
- curling
- bluing
- cluing
- cubing
- curing
Nine letter words
Every daily grid hides one of the 24,873 nine-letter words in the tournament dictionary. Here is a sample - and the 9 letter word finder searches all of them.
Highest-scoring picks
More nine-letter words (24,873 in total - use the finder above for every one)
- Aardvarks
- Acceptors
- Additions
- Affiliate
- Alfilaria
- Alumroots
- Analysand
- Annuluses
- Antiviral
- Aquariums
- Arthrosis
- Astrolabe
- Autocross
- Backpacks
- Banterers
- Baudekins
- Beflagged
- Bereavers
- Bignonias
- Blacklead
- Bluestone
- Botanicas
- Breathier
- Bucketing
- Buttinski
- Calvaries
- Capsicums
- Carryback
- Catnapper
- Cesspools
- Cheeriest
- Chorionic
- Clamworms
- Coadapted
- Cofactors
- Colophons
- Complices
- Conglobed
- Convokers
- Correctly
- Crabstick
- Crocheter
- Cumulated
- Cytotoxin
- Debauched
- Defalcate
- Demagogue
- Derailing
- Developes
- Didappers
- Disarrays
- Displease
- Divulging
- Downfield
- Drouthier
- Ealdormen
- Eisegeses
- Emergence
- Endotoxic
- Enteritis
- Epizootic
- Estranger
- Evolution
- Exotoxins
- Eyepoints
- Fathering
- Fiberized
- Fisherman
- Flimflams
- Foolproof
- Forjudged
- Freshness
- Furfurans
- Garnished
- Geoprobes
- Globalist
- Graciosos
- Grimacers
- Gunpapers
- Handblown
- Hatefully
- Helistops
- Highlands
- Homophony
- Huarachos
- Hypomanic
- Immeshing
- Inaugural
- Ineffably
- Inorganic
- Interfuse
- Invocated
- Itinerate
- Joyfuller
- Kibbutzim
- Labdanums
- Larrupers
- Legislate
- Lightship
- Loathsome
- Loyalists
- Magnesias
- Manometry
- Matricide
- Meltdowns
- Methodise
- Millraces
- Mishanter
- Misworded
- Monohulls
- Motorizes
- Mushrooms
- Naturisms
- Newspeaks
- Nondances
- Nonvisual
- Objection
- Oghamists
- Oratories
- Outcharge
- Outpushed
- Ovenproof
- Overmelts
- Ovotestes
- Pamphlets
- Pardoners
- Paunchier
- Pentarchs
- Pertained
- Phototube
- Piosities
- Playbooks
- Polishers
- Possessed
- Precensor
- Preputial
- Principia
- Proneness
- Psilocins
- Pushdowns
- Quietened
- Rapparees
- Rebellion
- Rectangle
- Reentrant
- Regrowths
- Relinking
- Repeaters
- Resalutes
- Restrains
- Reversals
- Rightward
- Roughhewn
- Saintdoms
- Sarodists
- Schizonts
- Screaming
- Sectility
- Separates
- Shampooed
- Shoeshine
- Sightless
- Skewbacks
- Slouchier
- Snowbirds
- Somewhats
- Spatulate
- Splodging
- Squiffier
- Staysails
- Stoicisms
- Strongman
- Subleases
- Sufflated
- Superpimp
- Sweetener
- Syntonies
- Tariffing
- Temporise
- Theogonic
- Thrusting
- Tokenisms
- Toxaemias
- Treasurer
- Trisomies
- Turbinals
- Umbellets
- Uncrossed
- Unfencing
- Unmingles
- Unsubdued
- Upstaring
- Vanishing
- Vermiform
- Virtually
- Waistcoat
- Wearables
- Whodunnit
- Wolverine
- Xanthones
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Frequently asked questions
What is a 9 letter word puzzle?
Nine letters are arranged in a three-by-three grid with one letter in the centre. You make as many words of four or more letters as you can, every word must contain the centre letter, and exactly one word uses all nine letters. In Australian newspapers it is called the Target; elsewhere it appears as a word wheel or nine-letter word game.
Is the 9 letter word puzzle free?
Yes. A new puzzle appears every day, there is no sign-up, no app to install and no limit - just open the page and play. Your progress for the day is kept in your own browser.
How do you solve a nine letter word puzzle?
Start with the centre letter and try common four-letter endings around it, then look for a vowel-consonant pattern that could stretch to seven or eight letters. Prefixes and suffixes (re-, un-, -ing, -ers, -ion) usually reveal the nine-letter answer. If you are stuck, the 9 letter word solver lists every valid word for your grid.
What is a good score on a nine letter word puzzle?
Finding a quarter of the available words is Good, half is Very Good, and about three quarters is Excellent. Finding the nine-letter word itself beats the puzzle outright, regardless of how many shorter words you found.
Where does the puzzle come from?
Grids are generated from the public-domain ENABLE tournament word list - the same dictionary the rest of this site uses - so every answer is a real, checkable word. A new grid unlocks each day at midnight, your local time.