Closer

Vocabulary suggestions for Contexto, Semantle, and any semantic word game

How it works: Enter your guesses and their ranks from the game. Lower rank = closer to the answer (#1 is the answer). Claude analyzes the pattern across your guesses and suggests vocabulary to explore — click any suggestion to pre-fill it, play it in the game, then come back and enter its rank. Note: Claude doesn't know the answer — these are vocabulary suggestions, not predictions.
Add your first guess

Add at least one guess and its rank to get suggestions. The more guesses you add, the sharper the analysis — patterns across multiple guesses reveal things no single guess can.

Top 10 — very close
Top 50 — getting warm
Top 200 — in the area
200+ — cast wider

About Contexto and Semantle

Contexto and Semantle are semantic word games — instead of spelling or definitions, they rank your guesses by how semantically similar they are to a hidden answer word. Rank #1 means you found it. The closer your word is in meaning, the lower your rank.

Objective: Find the hidden word in as few guesses as possible by reading the semantic signals from your previous guesses and narrowing in on the right conceptual neighborhood.

Quick tips

Start broad. Early guesses should cover different semantic fields — emotions, objects, actions, places. You're mapping the space, not zeroing in yet.

Cluster your best results. When you find a word in the top 50, try everything semantically adjacent to it. If OCEAN ranks #40, try WAVE, TIDE, SHORE, SEA, MARINE.

Watch for surprising neighbors. Sometimes a word ranks well for unexpected reasons — COLD ranking #15 might mean the answer is WINTER, not ICE. Pay attention to what clusters together.

This tool suggests, it doesn't know. Closer analyzes patterns in your guesses but doesn't have access to the game's ranking model. Use suggestions as vocabulary prompts, not guarantees.

Read the full Contexto strategy guide →