about hoolah

I called it hoolah because it sounds like hula, the Tagalog word for to guess. If hula reminds you of the Hawaiian dance, then nice, you get the second meaning too. Either way, you are here to guess.

The game is the one everyone already knows: five letters, six tries, a fresh word at midnight.

why a Tagalog word game

There are more than eighty million Tagalog speakers. Wordle has been remade in so many languages that a Filipino one felt overdue. And my advocacy is to make Filipino languages fun.

The daily-answer list is selective on purpose. The accepted-guess list is much wider, but I would rather keep the daily words defensible than let a fake or flimsy word slip in. If a word is missing, open a suggestion with the word, what it means, its part of speech, and a source I can check.