wordle-fun

Some fun with Wordle. By Toby Murray.

How to Build

Run make. However outputs are already archived in the out/ directory so make is only useful to re-build the outputs.

Outputs

Outputs are placed in the out/ subdirectory. They include:

• 1w-5-freq-histogram.csv: frequency histogram data for 5-letter English words
• 1w-5-freq.csv: list of 5-letter English words with frequency rank
• 1w-5.txt: list of 5-letter English words
• 1w.txt: list of 1/3 million most common English words
• en-5.txt: list of 5-letter objectionable words
• guesses-removed-by-nyt.txt: words removed from the guesslist by NYT
• report-nyt.txt: report including dates on which objectionable words will arise, from NYT wordlist
• report-orig.txt: report including dates on which objectionable words will arise, from original wordlist
• wordle-freq-histogram-nyt.csv: frequency histogram data for NYT Wordle wordlist
• wordle-freq-nyt.csv: Wordle NYT wordlist with frequency rank
• wordle-freq-sorted-nyt.txt: Wordle NYT wordlist sorted by frequency rank
• wordle-guesses-nyt-bad.txt: Objectionable words in the NYT guesslist
• wordle-guesses-orig-bad.txt: Objectionable words in the original wordlist
• wordle-words-nyt-bad.txt: Objectionable words in the NYT wordlist
• wordle-words-orig-bad.txt: Objectionable words in the original wordlist
• words-removed-by-nyt.txt: words removed from the wordlist by NYT

Source Material Obtained from Elsewhere

• en.txt used unmodified from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and-Otherwise-Bad-Words/master/en

  Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

• count_1w.txt used unmodified from https://norvig.com/ngrams/count_1w.txt

  Code copyright (c) 2008-2009 by Peter Norvig. License: MIT License

• wordle-words-nyt.txt and wordle-guesses-nyt.txt sourced from the lists in https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/main.4d41d2be.js on Feb 22 2022

• wordle-words-orig.txt and wordle-guesses-orig.txt sourced from the lists in https://web.archive.org/web/20220115071441js_/https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/main.c1506a22.js on Feb 2022 2022

All four of the latter were sourced by manually copying the strings of comma-separated, double-quote delimited words from the JavaScript source files and trivially tokenising them via a tiny Python script (details omitted)