A keyboard-like arraignment of 26 letters shows letters guessed and those remaining. If the letter isn't in the word, it will show up in black. If it's the right letter, but the wrong location in the word, it will be yellow. If it's the right letter in the right place, it will show up green. It starts with five empty blocks across – one for each letter – stacked six rows deep, one row for each guess. Solve one, wait until midnight for a new game. And the beauty of it is there's only one game a day – the same word for all players. And at one word a day, that list will last a little shy of seven years.įive-letter words? One a day? By now you know the topic of today's missive: Wordle, a guess-the-word online game. The the Official Scrabble Dictionary (which allows some pretty obscure five-letter words), puts the number at about 9,000.īut if some reasonable people come up with some commonly used five-letter words – piano, ouija, knoll, to mention a few – the list will be around 2,500. The Free Dictionary lists more than 158,000 words with five letters. As it turns out, the number varies widely.
Until about a week or so ago, I really wasn't concerned how many five-letter words there were in the English language.
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