Parodle

Guess the Italian word. Learn the English on the way.

Parodle didn’t start. It’s built from ES modules, so it has to be served over http rather than opened as a file. Run npm start in the project folder and open http://localhost:4173.

How to play

Guess the five-letter Italian word in six tries.

v right letter, right place
e right letter, wrong place
z not in the word

The keyboard shows the 21 letters of the Italian alphabet — no j, k, w, x or y. Words carry no accents. A new puzzle appears at midnight, your time.

Nearly 8,000 words are accepted as guesses. A handful of the rarer ones show — instead of a translation: still a real word, we just don’t have the English yet. The answer always has one. Translations come from Wiktionary and WikDict, CC BY-SA.