11 Best Word Game apps

Are you suffering from endless boredom, frustration from work, or finding a productive game that can help your brain? Here's your answer to all your questions.
Word games are a terrific way to connect with others and can keep you from always being bored. They are engaging and captivating and test our verbal skills. In many ways, they're also quite beneficial for your brain. They aid in improving concentration because many of them call for attention. They stimulate the brain regions involved in both short-term and long-term memory functions. As a result, playing word games frequently helps to strengthen memory over time. Additionally, playing games outside your capabilities enable you to develop your language and cognitive skills.



I've asked a few of my friends who regularly play word games, and here are their opinions about the benefits of word games and the best word games they played. "Word games helped me to build self-esteem and vocabulary because of learning new words each day, my friends were pretty much impressed by my improved vocabulary." said one of my friends when I asked "I usually play word games when I'm very bored, surprisingly after a while I'll be so engaged by brainstorming and excitement in finding words that times get easily passed away." said one more friend while discussing mobile games. From my research, I've found out that word games benefit us mentally. Since there's no harm in word games, Let's dive further to know the 11 best word games found in IOS and android.

1. Scrabble Go ( Android and IOs)

Most of us have enjoyed playing a traditional scrabble game on the board. While playing, it gives us a sense of nervousness about the next turn, and we brainstorm a lot for the new word; we keep focusing on the opponent's moves to see what options they are opening for us. Scrabble goes just a scrabble on the device, giving you the same experience.
Scrabble-go allows you to play against your friends, strangers on the internet, or computer. There's always a debate about its user interface being bright in color and its flashy presentation. Scrabble-go has a 3.6-star rating with over 10 million downloads. If you enjoy playing scrabble with your friends across the globe, this can be the way to go
One drawback about most word games is their ads; even Scrabble audiences have complained about it yet accepted that they had the best experience while playing the game.

2. Wordle (Browser, Android, and IOS)

You have undoubtedly heard the Wordle station train's siren, whether or not you have boarded it. This word-guessing exercise is commonplace. Each participant has six chances to guess a five-letter word correctly. A change in tile color indicates the proper letters and placements in the word-to-be-guessed. You can activate "hard mode" if you feel it isn't tricky enough for you. This entails using every letter that has been previously disclosed in all of your subsequent guesses. There are a few reasons why the buzz surrounding this word game hasn't yet subsided. Anyone can quickly learn how to play the game due to its simplicity. The one-word-per-day method makes sure that no one gets tired of it. Additionally, a sense of community is formed when millions attempt to guess the same word on a given day. Wordle was purchased by The New York Times for a seven-figure sum, which is reasonable given its popularity. The app is still accessible as of right now. Many more apps like Wordle allow you to play the game in other languages.
Wordle is available in web browsers, android's play store, and the I0S app store. Wordle is downloaded by more than 1 million people, with an average rating of 4.4 stars.
Most users are complaining about the ads, but they also acknowledge that they love the challenges given by Wordle each day.

3. Words of wonders (IOS and Android)

I've been playing this game personally for a while now in the name of research and thoroughly enjoyed it while playing each level voyage, as they call it. The game runs vanilla smooth on your mobile without any hangs or too many advertisements.
Words of Wonders is similar to the traditional crossword game, yet a little bit gamified with the collection of diamonds and other perks throughout the game.
Words of Wonders has an insane number of downloads and reviews, over 100 million downloads, and an average rating of 4.8 stars.

4. Pictoword (Android and IOS)

Pictoword is a game you don't want to miss if you're a word game lover. It involves both the memory and creative side of your brain to pass the levels in the game. While researching for this article, I wanted to play ten levels of the game and experience it, but Pictoword is way too addictive and engaging, dragging me to complete 20 levels of the game.
Pictoword has over 10 million downloads and an average rating of 4.3 stars

5. Spelltower (Android and IOS)

Spelltower is a game that drags our vocabulary skills and creative side of the brain to the cliff of the rock and improves our cognitive skills significantly. This game tests our patience, calmness within ourselves, and focus. Spelltower has different game modes like Daily search, Daily tower, Tower, Puzzle, and Rush. Each of them gives us tiles with letters arranged randomly, and we must match them. Each time we match them, tiles vanish, and we will be rewarded with a score.
I have experienced no lag in the game, which is very smooth while playing. The most complained part about other word games is ads. I observed no ads in this game; playing it was fun. I have done much brainstorming for the words, and it gave me pleasure when the score was rewarded, so definitely worth trying this game.
I am surprised by the number of downloads of the games, for the experience it offers, just 10 thousand downloads and an average rating of 3.3 stars. However, I recommend this game with all confidence.

6.Word Cookies (Android and IOS)

The words, but as the game progresses, it becomes so hard that you may want to give up. Yet, the game is quite fun to play that way and gives room for improving critical thinking.
I've played this game and felt playing once a day is more than enough because it's that time-consuming. The Word Cookies game is very beneficial because it allows us to recall the subconscious memory and learn new vocabulary regularly.
Word Cookies is quite famous in both the play store and the app store. It's downloaded by over 100 million people and gives an average rating of 4.8 stars.

7. Wordscapes ( Android and IOS)

Wordscapes is similar to a crossword game yet a little gamified. It gives letters according to your level; you must make words out of them. The best part of the game is its background music and user interface, which keeps giving you pleasure every time you pass the level. The game looks very easy at the beginning but progresses to a medium level in between and reaches hard mode at the end. Although these are relative to person-to-person, the 15th level might seem complicated for me and not for you.
I've played this game because of the research and loved it! Its calming user interface and soothing background music are the best part. Although you experience ads, the game is worthwhile.
Wordscape is also quite famous in both the play store and AppStore; it has 50 million downloads and an average rating of 4.6 stars

8. TypeShift ( Android and IOS)

Typeshift is an excellent and complicated game for a reason; You've to unscramble the words by moving vertical rows filled with letters and make a meaningful word in the mid-horizontal row. The level gets completed when you complete using all the letters on the screen. This game calls for a lot of concentration and can improve your attention span incredibly.
Typeshift being a complicated game, it has a decent number of downloads which accounts for 10 thousand, and an average rating of 4.2 stars.

9. Cryptogram (Android and IOS)

A text-encrypted puzzle is known as a cryptogram. To discover the message, you must solve the puzzle. The ciphers employed in this game were developed to encode secret or private communications. This cryptogram word game app's cryptogram can be cracked to reveal a powerful saying. Sometimes, knowing the quote beforehand makes the problem easier to solve. With the option for in-app purchases, it is free When I played this game, I felt it was challenging, yet it was fun to crack such codes. Your memory, understanding of rules, and decision-making abilities matter in this game; if you're very good at problem-solving skills, this may be the way to go.
It's a challenging game; over 1 million people have downloaded and played the cryptogram game. Also, players have given an average review of 4.2 stars.

10. Bonza word puzzle

Like a crossword puzzle that has been disassembled, you are given one hint regarding the crossword's theme in this word game app. There are both horizontal and vertical arrangements of the letters. You can move them around to create words associated with the theme. With a few words and a well-known theme, this is very simple, but as the number of words increases, it becomes more difficult (and trickier if you aren't particularly familiar with the theme).
Along with the daily puzzle, there are two free puzzle packs. In-app purchases can give you access to the remaining content.
Bonza word puzzle is a theme-based game unique from other word games. Over 1 million people downloaded it, giving it an average 4.2 stars rating.

11. Word search puzzle

Why alter an old favorite? With in-app purchases, you can play this word game for free. It requires looking for words arranged in a vertical, horizontal, or diagonal pattern. You can pick the one that best matches your skills from its several levels of difficulty. According to one of my pals, "I can practically feel my brain getting sharper every time I play this." When it works best, it might also benefit you. If nothing else, it might keep you from becoming bored!
Word search puzzle game is also quite well-known in the word game apps. This game has been downloaded by over 10 million members and has an average of 4.8 rating, which is quite impressive.

Wrapping up

Those mentioned above are the 11 best word games; they've been tested by our team thoroughly and found quite fun to play. My favorite game is Wordscape in the above 11 best word games. What's your favorite word game from above? Until next time, Keep learning, keep playing and keep winning!
Written By: - Likith Bandarupalli