Wordle - may contain spoilers

[dom]

Wordle 1,066 4/6*

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I didn't think they did that kind of word, so I was a little surprised to see them all turn green. Ho hum.

Feels like they are running out of options.

That's an interesting thought I asked chat gpt how many 5 letter words there were and how many of these would be considered common...

Determining the number of five-letter words that are not considered obscure can be subjective, as "obscure" can vary based on the individual's familiarity with the language, regional usage, and context. However, we can make an educated guess based on common usage.

Let's use a rough classification:

Common Words: Frequently used in everyday language.
Moderately Common Words: Used less frequently but still recognizable to most people.
Obscure Words: Rarely used or known, often specific to certain fields or archaic.
Based on frequency analyses of English words, such as those derived from corpora like the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) or word frequency lists, we can estimate:

Common and Moderately Common Words: These are likely to constitute around 25-30% of all five-letter words. This estimation includes words that are regularly encountered in daily conversations, media, and general writing.
Given that the Scrabble dictionary lists approximately 8,996 five-letter words:

Common and Moderately Common Words: About 25-30% of 8,996
25% of 8,996 ≈ 2,249
30% of 8,996 ≈ 2,699
Therefore, around 2,200 to 2,700 five-letter words would be considered not obscure, meaning they are reasonably familiar to a majority of English speakers. This is a rough estimate and can vary depending on the specific criteria for what is considered "not obscure."

I asked this as the game seems to provide words that are well known to everyone.  I suppose the game designers have 3 choices if they want to continue the game indefinitely...

1. start introducing the odd obscure word occasionally to mix up obscure and non obscure words

2.  When it runs out of common words move onto obscure ones

3.  When it runs out of common words, start again.

As it appears to be approaching half-way with common 5 letter words it would probably need to start including some obscure words now if it wants to go for option 1.

[Thenop]

Plural forms are rare as well, at least I have not seen any unless plural and single form are the same. That probably affects the number as well?

[dom]

Don't think plurals are used in Wordle or the scrabble dictionary as far as I'm aware

[dom]

No! I'm wrong plurals are included in the scrabble dictionary so that brings the number of common 5 letter words down to between approximately 1350 and 1800 (chat estimates that between 20 - 25% of them are plural ) - game is nearly done!