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Author: Ilya Volvovski

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Overview

This page describes specifics of the Armenian version of the PolyWordlot word game, which is an improved and multilingual version of the Wordle.

The Eastern Armenian Wikipedia and  Wiktionary has been selected as a corpus of Armenian word forms. The Data Preparation page details the process of data cleansing.

How to Play

Screen and Rules

The rules are simple: you get 6 attempts to guess the word of the day. This is the game screen:

The App highlights the letters Green, it you guessed the letter and position, Yellow, if the position is wrong, and Black, if the letter is not in the word.

To play you need to register - provide your email and a password. These are the reasons for registration: 1) the App provides statistics (click on leftmost icon on top of the screen): number of games Won and Lost. Entering with password guarantees that no other person can play on your behalf 2) if you forgot the password, then resetting instruction will be sent to your email.

Resetting the password is the only reason for registering with your real email. However, if you do not trust the App, you can still play - just provide an email-like "fake" ID. In this case, if you forgot your password no email could be sent to you.

The Globe icon is for selecting the languages that you want to play. 🇺🇸English, 🇷🇺Русский, 🇫🇷Français, 🇪🇸Español, 🇮🇱עברית, 🇦🇲Հայերեն are available at the moment (2026-π).

The envelope icon is for feedback - bug reports and suggestions, the left-pointing arrow is Exit.

Every day you can guess one word of each length (the dropdown with integer 5) from 5 to 7 characters.

For testing click the [Daily] dropdown. You can get Tester (Practice) access - if not immediatly available - via feedback email.

It is also important to adjust your thinking to the word length in characters rather than letters, since 'ու' is a 2 charakter letter and there is no single character 'եւ': the length of the word 'առեւտուր' is 8.

Keyboard layout

The Eastern Armenian phonetic keyboard layout is a modification of the modification suggested in the RFC: EN-0004 - see the Armenian Characters set review:

[“չ”, “ձ”, “շ”, “է”, “ռ”, “թ”, “ղ”, “ը”, “օ”, “փ”]

["ք", "ժ", "ե", “ր”, "տ", "յ", "ւ", "ի", “ո”, "պ"]

["ա", "ս", "դ", "ֆ", "գ", "հ", “ջ”, "կ", “լ”]<delete>

["զ", “խ”, "ց", "վ", "բ", "ն", "մ", “ծ“, “ճ”]<return>

"This layout based upon phonetic closeness of Eastern Armenian pronunciation to Latin letters. It has an additional key to remember positions of  Armenian letters. For letter ‘Yech’, ‘Reh’, ‘Tyun’, ‘Vo’, ‘Peh’, and ‘Cha’ there are phonetically close letters ‘Eh’, ‘Ra’, ‘To’, ‘O’, ‘Pyur’, and ‘Tcheh’ next to respective buttons (up and right position). The Letter ‘O’ is associated with the digit ‘0’, the Letter ‘Dza’ is associated with the digit ‘2’ " (RFC: EN-0004).

[See the RFC: EN-0004 for the Western Armenian phonetic keyboard layout, designed by the above principles.]

Suggestions

The game is useful not just for pleasure, but also for business (learning): when you hover over an entered complete word, the app shows the definition of the word.

Such application can be used not just for improving linguistic skills, but also for science learning by using thematic dictionaries of terms in geography, chemistry, anatomy, etc.

Player scores

Players can be ranked by scores accumulated as a result of successful guesing. For each guessed word the player scores the word length points. To encourage language learning a progressive scoring is applied. For every guessed words in second language the score is doubled, for the third - tripled, and so on. For example if the player has 3 4 character words in 2 languages then the score is 3x4 for one language and 3x(4x2) for second language - total of 36 points (for 6 words in one language it would have been just 24). If the player has 3 4 character later words in each of three language then the scores becomes 3x4 + 3x(4x2) + 3x(4x3) = 72.

To make more ambitious people to play PolyWordlot the list of top 20 (50 or 100) player nicknames is published daily on the PolyWordlot game webpage.

Word scores

It seems interesting for the linguists to know the frequencies of words, tried during the guessing. For better design of the game dictionary it is beneficial to get statistics on the average number of steps for guessing a particular word.

Start playing PolyWordlot.

Important. If you have suggestions or found inappropriate words in the game (in any language) please report: aram.hayrapetyan@gmail.com or better yet help with improving the automatic data cleansing