Another interesting Wordle implementation in Mathematica:

n-Wordle

It's a world of Wordles!

I wrote a small blog post on this which you can read here:

Wordle the Wolfram Way

An interesting statistics that just went viral on Reddit:

Sure (though I prefer to keep a sense of mystery each time I do the real Wordle). Arnoud has written an blog post with some additional analysis using the ResourceFunction that contains the actual Wordle words that he scraped. Here is the link to that (posted with his permission):

Tips and Tricks for Solving Wordle Efficiently

The takeaway is, of course, that you can easily analyze strategies with the Wolfram Language and, of course, have fun doing it!

Fair enough... thanks!

I found Wordle's word list online and put it in a ResourceObject:

ResourceData[
 ResourceObject[
  CloudObject[
   "https://www.wolframcloud.com/obj/arnoudb/DeployedResources/Data/Wordle-Word-List"]]]

More information here:

https://www.wolframcloud.com/obj/arnoudb/DeployedResources/Data/Wordle-Word-List

So this raises an interesting question about the words contained in Mathematica's WordList.

Here are the 5 letter words that I have used from WordList["KnownWords", IncludeInflections -> True]:

my5LetterWords =
  Module[{words},
    words = 
    Select[WordList["KnownWords", IncludeInflections -> True], 
     StringLength[#] === 5 &];
   words = Select[words, StringMatchQ[#, LetterCharacter .. ] &];
   Union[words]
   ];

And here are the words that Arnoud put in the ResourceObject:

wordleWords = 
  ResourceData[
   ResourceObject[
    CloudObject[
     "https://www.wolframcloud.com/obj/arnoudb/DeployedResources/Data/\
Wordle-Word-List"]]];

There are quite a few more in wordleWords than in my5LetterWords:

In[]:= Length /@ {my5LetterWords, wordleWords}

Out[]= {7766, 12972}

Here are how many more are in the wordle words:

In[]:= Length[Complement[wordleWords, my5LetterWords]]

Out[]= 6854

And there are some missing in the other direction:

In[]:= Length[Complement[my5LetterWords, wordleWords]]

Out[]= 1648

So, exercise for the interested student: what is going on here, and is Mathematica's dictionary a bit too sparse?

It's amazing how many words I don't know. I think some human it picking the secret words, though. Given the list of them so far, it seems to be a different dictionary than the accepted words (maybe the average of their use-frequency is statistically higher than that of other dictionaries?)

There is a lot of chatter on the internet about this question (as we would expect!). Just Google "best words for Wordle" and feast your eyes. Though I prefer to leave an air of mystery to my use of the game, I can't help but take a crack at this over my morning coffee. Here's one approach:

I was thinking it would be good to compute what the best starting word would be for wordle based on WordData, letter frequencies and letter position frequencies. The final word has to be a real 5-letter word as a constraint. So far I haven't tried out any analysis though. Usually I use AUDIO or TEARS although it would be nice to have a top ten best words to pick from.

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Thanks! I put a link to this post as a reply on that stackexchange post. Update: I did not see that you had added a link to here as a comment, but I will leave mine up as well and let the moderators choose whether to delete it. Thanks again!

Thanks! It was fun to create on a slow Sunday evening.

For those who want to cheat, I have added a cheating button that gives you the answer if you have enabled it with the checkbox next to it. But, don't cheat! ;-)

• I have updated the notebook and changed the name of the application from Wordle to MWordle. And I have added some usage messages to the functions and parameter in the notebook. Also I have added one more row to the set of possible guesses that you can make so it has the same array size as in the original web version of the game.

• Added a small update with a menu to let the user choose the part of speech to use in the puzzle: all words, nouns, verbs, or adjectives.

• I added a but more to my original post with instructions on how to set things up so that you can launch the MWordle game from a custom notebook via a simple button.

• I have updated the MWordle.nb notebook attached to this post with some additional commentary within it. The full notebook is also posted inline in the top level post. However, download the attached notebook to play with the code directly.

• I updated the main post with a screenshot of the game. Enjoy!