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Would it be possible to have a 2nd word list that is sorted by weight? I played around with making a list using the letter frequency in each spot to calculate a weight. Only problem I saw is that some words at the top of the list had the same letter twice. Which would be bad for an opening word. Just a thought.

cut -b1 words | sort | uniq -c > letter_frequency_1.txt
cut -b2 words | sort | uniq -c > letter_frequency_2.txt
cut -b3 words | sort | uniq -c > letter_frequency_3.txt
cut -b4 words | sort | uniq -c > letter_frequency_4.txt
cut -b5 words | sort | uniq -c > letter_frequency_5.txt

Tested against the original solutions list, this is missing the solutions that were removed by NY Times:

{'agora', 'fibre', 'lynch', 'pupal', 'slave', 'wench'}

All of these are allowed entries in Wordle. I wonder if anything else is missing?

This list is missing the following words:

• agora
• pupal
• lynch

All three of these words seem to be in the Wordle "dictionary" of available words for two reasons:

1. According to this Medium article all three of these words have been answers to Wordle in the past.
2. Wordle as of 7/27/2022 accepts all three of these words as valid guesses.

https://static.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2022/01/25/wordle-solver/assets/solutions.txt

I had fun playing with your wordle list and culling it down with grep. It was a good exercise to learn a bit more about grep. However, in my mac terminal, I had to add quotes as follows:
curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tabatkins/wordle-list/main/words | grep -v '[dukfiht]' | grep .r... | grep n | grep -v ...n. | grep g | grep -v ..g..
...in order for the initial letter exclusions to work otherwise it threw an error:
zsh: no matches found: [dukfiht]
I really couldn't find much explanation for why I needed the quotes except for this which explains that the quotes protect the pattern from the shell interpreter.

Anyway, thought I might let you know in case you want to adjust your readme usage notes.

Is this being kept current? According to this a bunch of new words were just added.

https://www.reddit.com/r/wordle/comments/x3alye/nyt_added_1881_words_to_the_allowed_list/

The README states that this list comes "straight from the game's source code", but that requires clarification.

Among Wordle players, it is common knowledge that the Wordle source code contains TWO lists:

• possible answers
• valid guesses (a much larger list)

This repo contains the latter, not the former. It's fine if you don't want to provide the former. Still, many people who visit this repo are looking for the possible answers. You can save them some time if you let them know that they can't find it here.

As written, the readme suggests any word that comes out of the grep could potentially be the solution. Something as simple as a statement that this is a list of valid guesses and that only a small portion of the list can actually be the solution would greatly clarify what this repository can and cannot be used for.