Every Possible Wordle Solution Visualized

Re:Every Possible Wordle Solution Visualized by mortenjorck on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @01:12AM (#35257085)

While I had kind of intuited this (I’ve developed my strategy over time to always favor the more common word when choosing among multiple possibilities), I didn’t realize some of the places where Wordle cuts its solution set. Specifically, I somehow never noticed that solutions are never s-suffixed plural, but you can clearly see it in the visualization if you try entering a word with four letters.

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Re:Every Possible Wordle Solution Visualized by carlmr on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @03:00AM (#35257725)

>I somehow never noticed that solutions are never s-suffixed plural

This is something I noticed that improved my wordle scores a lot.

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Re:Every Possible Wordle Solution Visualized by noduerme on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @06:11AM (#35258953)

First I'd heard of it. Although looking back, I've tested lots of plurals and can't recall one ever being right. Sort of degrades the game to have an unwritten rule like that.

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Re:Every Possible Wordle Solution Visualized by tragomaskhalos on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @03:43AM (#35257998)

This is an important feature in fact, as otherwise the space of possible solutions grows to include nearly all 4-letter nouns (and verbs) +'s', and this is too large. I believe that regular pasts in -ed are also excluded for the same reason.

The iPhone app on the other hand includes -s plurals in its solution set, which makes for a markedly inferior game (it also has an error in its use of the yellow indication, which also impacts negatively)

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Re:Every Possible Wordle Solution Visualized by thaumasiotes on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @05:47AM (#35258792)

> otherwise the space of possible solutions grows to include nearly all 4-letter nouns (and verbs) +'s', and this is too large. I believe that regular pasts in -ed are also excluded for the same reason.

Regular pasts in -ed would pretty much restrict you to four-letter verbs that are spelled with a silent E (kite ~ kited); that will be a much smaller class of words than the ones that get excluded by the "s" suffixes.

There is a weird tangential observation we can make here, which is that the plural suffix -s, the verbal suffix -s, and the verbal suffix -t all behave exactly the same way - they are ordinarily zero syllables matching the voicing of the consonant that precedes them, but when that preceding consonant is similar to the consonant of the suffix, they grow an epenthetic vowel (becoming one syllable instead of zero) and become voiced - but the -s suffixes are only spelled with their epenthetic vowel when it exists (compare mats versus masses), while the -t suffix is spelled with its vowel whether the vowel exists or not (compare mopped versus modded).

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Re:Every Possible Wordle Solution Visualized by ghaff on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @08:11AM (#35259849)

Wordle seems to favor base words generally but it doesn't seem to be as rigid about it as with plurals ending in an "s" (which I don't think I've ever seen one of).

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