• Re: How many five letter words are there in the English language anyway

    From Johnny RSFCootball@21:1/5 to xyzzy on Wed Feb 23 08:49:20 2022
    On Wednesday, February 23, 2022 at 10:39:10 AM UTC-6, xyzzy wrote:
    And how soon before Wordle, Quordle, Sedecordle, Megaordle (ok I made the last one up) exhaust them all?

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    I’m prepared and ready with my four-word/twenty-letter opening gambit.

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  • From The NOTBCS Guy@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 23 09:48:28 2022
    The Free Dictionary lists 158,390 5-letter words.

    There are 11,881,376 "words" if you can use any five letters (e.g. "qzaab" and "rtflh" are words). Of course, this would make Wordle much harder.

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  • From Eric Ramon@21:1/5 to xyzzy on Wed Feb 23 12:50:43 2022
    On Wednesday, February 23, 2022 at 8:39:10 AM UTC-8, xyzzy wrote:
    And how soon before Wordle, Quordle, Sedecordle, Megaordle (ok I made the last one up) exhaust them all?

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    “I usually skip over your posts because of your disguistng, contrarian, liberal personality.” — Altie

    there are more words than there are countries so globle and wordle will go first

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