Wordle Unlimited UK.

We intuitively know that the English spoken by people from Great Britain is different from the English spoken by people from the United States: a matter of pronunciation, first of all, but also of everything else, namely vocabulary, morphology, spelling and grammar. So this might have been a problem in the original Wordle game. Some UK English words were left out. So there was a need for Wordle UK version. We have collected a large list of UK and US English words. In the above game you can use any 5 letter word in English and don’t have to worry if it is a slang in the US or a word that is used only in UK English.

If you want the normal Wordle version go back to Wordle Unlimited

Lets dive a bit deeper into the differences between British English and American English.

The main differences between British English and American English

English is now widely considered a sort of universal lingua franca that allows you to communicate with millions of people of any nationality. Despite this, this language has undergone substantial transformations over time depending on the place where it is spoken.

The history of the United States and the United Kingdom and their influence around the world have changed the English language forever: exported all over the world, English has in turn been influenced by adapting to local customs.

One of the difficulties faced by language learners is that there is no "standard" English. There are at least two fundamental "dialects" to deal with: British and American English.

Despite everything that the UK and the US have in common and the English and the Americans understand each other very well, there are significant differences between British and American English: it is not a simple accent, but a true linguistic diversity.

Anyone who travels regularly knows how different it is to talk to a Londoner or a New Yorker. British English, its classicism and British cadence now seems to have very little to do with the open accents of American slang: but what are the real differences?

 

British English and American English - so the same, so different

First of all, it should be clarified how these differences are anything but strange. Just think of italian language: comparing the Italian of the different regions, we realize how often a handful of kilometers are enough to totally transform the accent and, in some cases, even the grammar of a language. Not to mention the vocabulary.

To use the English language at its best and above all to make yourself understood and avoid misunderstandings or embarrassment, it is better to know which words have different pronunciation and meanings, how you change the use of certain words and sometimes even the grammar.

Let's see some of them.

Differences in pronunciation: phonetics

For obvious reasons, the most evident difference between American English and British English concerns the phonetics, that is the level of the language relative to the sounds of words. For travelers or those who usually speak English with people from different parts of the world, pronunciation is the first difference you notice.

Obviously there are many regional differences within the two countries, but in many words different vowel sounds are used, or the accent on the word changes, or the emphasis given to a certain consonant.

The main distinguishing feature is the pronunciation, in the United States, of the "r" before the vowel or consonant. We are talking about the rotic "r", a consonant pronounced in all positions in seventeenth-century England and whose use has survived in the United States, the English tend to make it heard more than anything else at the beginning of the word.

Another important distinctive feature is that of the absence, in the USA, of the "broad A": the "a", in many words, is pronounced as / æ /, not as / ɑ: /.

Beyond this curiosity, Americans generally tend, when it comes to spelling, to contract several words, almost as if to make the discussion shorter and more practical.

Singular and plural

In more traditional British English nouns referring to collectivities such as groups, teams, committees or the like are treated as plural words and only rarely in the singular. For the American, exactly the opposite rule applies: words of this kind are always considered singular.

Gotten, the past participle of get

The use of the archaic form gotten is standard in the United States, but not in the United Kingdom, where it has been abandoned.

In both countries, the past tense of “get” is “got”. In British English, the past participle of “get” is also “got”.

In American English, things get complicated, and we use “got” or “gotten” depending on the static (possession, need) or dynamic (acquire or become) situation.

For example:

• Yesterday I got a new guitar
• I've got a great guitar
• I've gotten a new guitar
• You've got to see my new guitar
• I got into playing the guitar last year
• I'd gotten into playing the guitar the previous year

The use is also spreading in England, although it is often considered an Americanism

Two different dictionaries

The feature that definitively differentiates British and American English, however, are undoubtedly the different words used in what are now becoming two distinct languages.

We should remember the American genesis of famous compound words: teenager, non-profit and many others. According to what is reported by the Cambridge Dictionary, and not only, the totally different words are many even if in most cases they remain understandable for both interlocutors of a hypothetical dialogue.

Not to mention words present in both but with very different meanings! The most striking example concerns the sport most loved by Europeans: the American term for soccer is soccer, but in English it is football.

The examples could be dozens and dozens, these are the most common:

Words that can be used on Wordle UK (5 letter words).

American English	British English
mad	angry
french fries	chips
wreck	crash
pacifier	dummy
boiler	grill
truck	lorry
corn	maize
math	maths
diaper	nappy
vicious, mean	nasty
line	queue
dessert	sweet
flashlight	torch
hobo	tramp

General words that differ from UK English to US English.

UK English	US English
angry	mad
autumn	fall
boot (of a car)	trunk
rubbish	trash
trousers	pants
biscuit	cookie
cupboard	closet
nappy	diaper
tap	faucet
lift	elevator
pavement	sidewalk
flat	apartment
chemist's	drug store
petrol	gas / gasoline

 

Grammar

Americans use the present perfect less than the English:

• US: Did you do your homework yet?
• UK: Have you done your homework yet?

• US: I already ate.
• UK: I've already eaten.

For a Brit, it's just plain wrong.

In British English, 'have got' is often used as possessive of 'have' and 'have got to' is informally used as 'have to'. This use is much less common in American English.

• UK: I've got two sisters.
• US: I have two sisters.

• UK: I've got to go now.
• US: I have to go now.

English: a language with many faces

Although the discrepancies between British English and American English testify to the most evident and known differentiation within this widespread language, it should not be forgotten that there are other rather interesting variants.

Once it spread worldwide, especially through the British colonies, the English language gave rise to variants present in Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, India and many other locations.

English the world’s most widely spoken language.

The English language is the most widely spoken language throughout the world. In fact, if Chinese native speakers are the most numerous, English can count on a greater number of non-native speakers, that is, people who, although not born countries where it is the first language, speak it for a variety of reasons.

Among these reasons, the main one is that English is the most requested language in the world of work. For practical reasons as well, that is, for the greater ease of learning compared to, for example, the increasingly widespread Chinese, English becomes an international language, even a language that can allow two speakers whose first language is different to communicate for example: an Italian and a German.