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Kevin Lubick

I believe Wordle uses two lists of words - one list contains that can be used for the game (i.e. "common" words), and one list contains all valid words that it accepts. Consider focusing on the smaller list (2315 words when I looked) so that you are not trying to match against words that do not exist. It might not change your analysis too much, but could be worth investigation.

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manuel

Thank you Kevin, that's a good point. I combined both list. Maybe I try it again with the correct list for Wordle.

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manuel

I checked the Wordlist from Wordle. The result:

[{e 1233} {a 979} {r 899} {o 754} {t 729} {l 719} {i 671} {s 669} {n 575} {c 477} {u 467} {y 425} {d 393} {h 389} {p 367} {m 316} {g 311} {b 281} {f 230} {k 210} {w 195} {v 153} {z 40} {x 37} {q 29} {j 27}]

e,a,r,o, and t.