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I'm enjoying playing Wordle; see https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

One thing that I'm curious about is the word list. If you enter a guess that isn't a word, it will do a little shake and say, "Not in word list". Does that imply that words it accepts as guesses might be candidates for future challenge words? I've seen postings that no, there is one Wordle dictionary that contains candidates for the challenge word (about 2,500), and a much larger list of words accepted as guesses. I guess that makes some sense. (I peeked at the source code and found a dictionary, but didn't want to study it too much.)

Anyway, I've tried a few guesses that I thought would be valid words but aren't, and I've tried a lot of guesses that I've never encountered before, but are accepted as guesses by Wordle.

• frise
• stire

To assist in some of my explorations, I put up https://github.com/fordsfords/moby_words_2

According to https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/technology/wordle-word-game-creator.html

[They] narrowed down the list of Wordle words to about 2,500, which should last for a few years.

I'll note that frise and stire do not show up in Moby's "common.txt" (which has 4060 5-letter words), but they do show up in "single.txt" (which has 14,847 5-letter words). I suspect that those words are not challenge candidates