Alternative to Wordle

A Wordle alternativein French, free

Mot du jour plays exactly like the daily word game everyone knows: one hidden five-letter word each day, six guesses, green for the right spot, yellow for the wrong spot, grey for not in the word. The words are French, and accents are handled for you: type E for É, È or Ê. It is free, has no ads and needs no account.

Mot du jourGuess the daily five-letter word in six tries.

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Mot du jour

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Wordle and Mot du jourside by side

What you need	Wordle	Mot du jour
One word a day, six tries	Yes	Yes
Green, yellow and grey hints with repeated letters	Yes	Yes
Hard mode, dark and high-contrast themes	Yes	Yes
Statistics, streaks and emoji share	Yes	Yes
Language of the words	English	French, accents ignored when typing
Same word as everyone else	Yesthe NYT word	Partlysame for every Mot du jour player, not the NYT word
Archive of past puzzles	PartlyNYT Games subscription	No
Stats synced across devices	Partlywith an NYT account	Partlycopy a stats code to another browser
Works offline	No, the web game needs a connection	Yes, once opened
Ads	On the NYT site	None
Price	Free daily puzzle; archive in NYT Games, about $6 a month	$0, forever

What Mot du jour does not do

The words come from Mot du jour's own French list, not from the New York Times, so the word of the day differs from Wordle's.
Only French for now, and only one word a day: there is no unlimited mode or archive.
Stats live in your browser; moving them takes a short code you copy and paste.
The interface is in French.

Price

What Wordle costsand what Mot du jour costs

Today's Wordle is free. Past puzzles and the rest of NYT Games are behind a subscription.

Plan	Price	What you get
Wordle	$0	Today's puzzle, in English
NYT Games	About $6 a month or $50 a year	Wordle archive, Spelling Bee, the Crossword and more

Source: apps.apple.com · techcrunch.com, checked on 16 October 2026. The New York Times website refused automated access on that date. The App Store lists 'Games - Monthly' at $5.99; the yearly figure comes from third-party offers and is not verified.

$0No plan, no trial, no card, nothing to cancel.

Mot du jour is free to play every day, with nothing to subscribe to.

Why people switch

Why people leave Wordle

You want to play in French
Wordle is English only. French players want accented words that are typed without hunting for É on the keyboard.
Source: outilstice.com
Past puzzles are paid
The Wordle archive, back to 2021, is for NYT Games subscribers.
Source: techcrunch.com

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