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Re:Show HN: Wordle over DNS by furyofantares on Saturday February 19, 2022 @10:54AM (#30397991)
> The thinking is probably that if you allow plurals and certain other verb forms to any significant degree you probably end up with a disproportionate number of trailing "S" letters--which would be less interesting.

There's no reason it has to be noticeably disproportionate, the clues are curated and not just picked randomly from the list of words that are legal to guess.

I guess I'm also curious if the suggestion is that all these words are illegal to guess or just not used as clues?

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Re:Show HN: Wordle over DNS by ghaff on Saturday February 19, 2022 @11:14AM (#30398166)
It appears as if there are plurals in the words you can use to guess. I just tried PILLS and it worked. I have not yet run across a plural as the answer but I haven't looked at the word list.
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Re:Show HN: Wordle over DNS by sprobertson on Saturday February 19, 2022 @05:34PM (#30401171)
1.6% of possible answers end with "s" but none of those are plural. 30.5% of allowed guesses end in "s" however.
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