Wordle is a game about words, but numbers can help you beat it. We've delved into the data to find the most useful patterns.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WFIU listener Mark Minster of Terre Haute, Ind., and Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

Jumble has been entertaining folks since 1954 and has been a classic game where scrambled words require you to unscramble ...

Imagine chatting over coffee with your grandmother and she pauses mid-sentence, muttering, “Oh, what’s the word I’m looking for?” Familiar verbal snags like this, which scientists call “word-finding ...

We’re still in the holiday mood for this week. We’re only shifting gears to “New Year woo!” next week. So I have decided, for no particular reason. (Well, the reason was all the Christmas-related ...

A new list from language experts shows which words most often tripped up U.S. broadcasters and public figures during the year. The list, released on Thursday, came from language-learning company ...

Ever wonder what your dog is trying to say? Well, a University of Texas at Arlington researcher is aiming to turn barks, howls and whimpers of man's best friend into intelligible speech—a kind of ...

Kamala Harris isn’t mincing words aboutDonald Trump’s White House these days. In fact, the former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate even described the current administration with a ...

This exploratory study examines the distribution of word syllable lengths in contemporary Modern Chinese by analyzing frequency data from four sources: Ni Kuang's novel Tianren, a Mandarin Corner ...