How many words in wordle

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dr john
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How many words in wordle

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There are 12,972 words in what looks like the wordle dictionary

No, I didn't count them manually, I had a text editor count the commas between them and added one, as the last word - Zymic - doesn't have a comma after it.

Hope this helps you in your guessing.

PS including the dictionary in the code removes the need to check an online database, reduces the traffic going back and forth to his website, and helps a bit in keeping down the cost of running it (data transfer limits on the site).

PS I plan to check his way of preventing the same word being used twice, which I am sure I have spotted early on, so I have played it today and will compare the dictionary today with tomorrow'.

Wordle 229 5/6

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Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall
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Re: How many words in wordle

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Given that it accepts American spellings that seems like a pretty small word list given how many words follow the same pattern. I look forward to dr john providing our very own, on site, wordle game before the NYT gets all possesive.
Incidentally, I doubt I'd get ZYMIC anyway.
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