Commoner

Commoner is a daily ordering game: arrange five words from most to least common as recorded in this site's pinned frequency data, then compare your order with the actual ranking positions. One puzzle per day, the same for everyone, plus a playable archive of earlier dates.

How to play

  1. Five words appear in alphabetical order. Drag them — or use the move up and move down buttons — into what you think is their most-to-least-common order.
  2. Submit once. Each word scores green in its recorded spot, yellow one position away, and dark otherwise.
  3. The reveal shows every word's ranking position, game band, and commonness tier in this data release, with surprise callouts for the words you misplaced the furthest.
  4. Share your emoji result grid. Your streak and score distribution are stored only in this browser.

Puzzle #63 2026-09-01

Today's 5 words, shown alphabetically:

  1. bounty
  2. daresay
  3. food
  4. intoxicated
  5. sleight

Play the archive

Replay any earlier daily puzzle. Archive plays do not change your streak.

About Commoner

Each day's five words are picked deterministically from five stretches of this release's frequency ranking, so everyone gets the same puzzle for a given date and data version (v1/2026.07-lexical.6). Ranking positions come from the build's pinned frequency artifact, and commonness tiers are build-specific ranking bands — neither is a universal usage claim, and neither asserts validity in any named word game.

Scoring compares your order with those recorded positions only. Your results, streak, and score distribution live only in your browser's local storage.