Top Android Word Games: Latest Updates

We have a passion for word games. They come in an incredible variety of shapes, sizes, and difficulty levels, and the best part is how clever they make you feel when you play—yes, even Boggle. This guide to the best Android word games aims to highlight the top options available. Whether you're looking for a serious challenge or something more lighthearted, each game here provides a fantastic workout for your brain.

Best Android Word Games

Let's dive into the games!

Wordscapes

A delightfully simple and addictive blend of word search and crossword puzzles, with a touch of Boggle for extra fun. While it may not be the most unique game on our list, it's perfect for enjoying a quick vocabulary challenge whenever you have a spare moment.

Baba Is You

Some might debate whether Baba Is You truly counts as a word game, but we believe it does—if only as a reason to include it here. The game demands creative thinking as you rearrange the words that define each level's rules. Baba is you, but what happens if Rock becomes you? It's incredibly fun to solve and just as entertaining to experiment with.

Anagraphs

Have you ever realized that some letters resemble others when flipped upside down? Developer Christopher Cinq-Mars Jarvis certainly has, and he built an entire game around this clever idea. Anagraphs is a brilliant and original word game that challenges you to flip letters to discover more possible words.

Words for a bird

Bart Bonte is a master puzzle designer who has won over many fans with his innovative—and free—color series, including black, green, blue, red, pink, and yellow. Words for a bird takes a different thematic direction, yet this smart word game retains the creativity, elegance, and originality found in his other titles.

Typeshift

From Noodlecake, the team behind the superb SpellTower (sadly not on Android), Typeshift offers another straightforward word game with an outstanding core idea. It’s an anagram puzzle that tasks you with forming words from scrambled letters, but here the letters are neatly aligned in vertical columns. By shifting these columns up or down, you can create specific words. It's as simple as that.

Sticky Terms

Sticky Terms might stretch the traditional definition of a word game. Each level presents a collection of shapes that you must assemble into words. While it's essentially a shape-matching game designed to stimulate your visual and spatial reasoning, we still adore it because the words you form are all "untranslatables"—terms unique to one language with no direct equivalent elsewhere.

Bonza Word Puzzle

Bonza Word Puzzle is far more clever than its name implies. This elegantly simple word game asks you to arrange fragmented text segments on the screen to construct words. It's tougher than it seems, with countless possible combinations to explore and eliminate. To help you along, each puzzle follows a unique theme. Strange name, fantastic game.

Boggle With Friends

Sometimes, nothing beats a classic game of Boggle—the fast-paced board game where you shake lettered dice and compete to find as many words as possible. Zynga's Boggle With Friends delivers exactly what you'd expect from a top free-to-play multiplayer specialist: a polished, enjoyable, and feature-rich mobile adaptation of a timeless favorite, albeit with occasional freemium frustrations.

Scrabble GO

Much of what we said about Boggle With Friends applies to Scrabble GO as well. Scopely's vibrant and user-friendly Scrabble game launched just as the 2020 lockdowns began, offering many of us a welcome escape from boredom and isolation, at least for a while. Scrabble GO includes every game mode and feature you could want, alongside the familiar energy, lives, and crystals common in free-to-play titles. Words With Friends 2 also deserves a nod here.

Word Forward

It's interesting how many word games can appear similar at first glance. After all, there are only so many ways to rework the anagram concept. Yet Word Forward, from Rocketship Park, showcases the impressive depth, creativity, and variety that skilled developers can build into a simple 5x5 letter grid.

Sidewords

Sidewords offers yet more innovation in the word puzzle genre. It presents a range of puzzle formats reminiscent of The Witness, each requiring a different approach to solve. With hundreds of puzzles in various shapes and sizes, grouped by color to suit your mood, it's easy to jump in and play. Though arguably more of a logic puzzle than a pure word game, Sidewords is a superb addition to any game collection.

Letterpress

Originally an iOS release that earned an Apple Design Award and glowing reviews, Letterpress is a two-player word battle where you form words to capture territory on a 5x5 board. Think of it as a word-based twist on Risk, hiding deep strategic gameplay beneath its minimalist design. Just watch this expert example in action.