Commoner

Commoner is a daily five-word ranking puzzle that asks you to order words from most to least common in everyday English. Play takes about a minute: reorder five word cards and submit your guess. Frequency data are verified via the wordfreq English corpus. You have three tries to get all positions correct.

1. Drag a card to reorder it, or tap two cards to swap their positions.
2. When satisfied, press Submit to check the current order (interface shows remaining tries).
3. Correct ranks lock green; incorrect ranks flash yellow briefly. You have three tries and cannot repeat a word in a rank position you already tried.

Play Commoner to test and sharpen your intuition about everyday word frequencies in a quick, daily challenge. The simple drag-or-tap interface and immediate color feedback let you iterate through a few focused guesses and compare your sense of common usage against corpus-verified frequency data.

When you submit a guess, any correctly placed word locks green permanently. An incorrect rank flashes yellow for about a second, then fades with no lasting mark. Unsolved ranks remain white. The interface shows remaining tries (e.g., "SUBMIT - 3 TRIES LEFT") and, when solved, displays your full guess history as a color grid.

Daily puzzle

A daily challenge is listed on the official game page.

• Use green-locked words as fixed anchors for later guesses, locked ranks cannot change.
• If a submit flashes yellow, change the positions that were newly tried; the yellow flash tells which ranks were wrong but does not persist.
• Avoid placing the same word in the same rank position across tries because the game disallows repeating a word in a rank you've already tried it in.