In the word game Wordle, there can arise a difficult dilemma. You can know all but one letter of the word but there are many possibilities for the missing one.
Find the 5-letter word with the most possible letter exchanges in one spot.
For example:
PRICE
PRIDE
PRIME
PRIZE
Feel free to do the same for other word lengths.
Using the word list I had on my computer, the answer I found is BILLS, which can become 16 additional words by replacing the B:
BILLS
DILLS
FILLS
GILLS
HILLS
JILLS
KILLS
MILLS
NILLS
PILLS
RILLS
SILLS
TILLS
VILLS
WILLS
YILLS
ZILLS
For longer words I found:
CO_ING (15)
_AGGING (14)
UN_AILED (10)
UN_OUNDED (8)
_UMBLINGLY (7)
OVER_ETTING (5)
_IGHTFULNESS (4)
_IGHTLESSNESS (4)
ENCYCLOPAEDIA_ (4)
_EMICYLINDRICAL (3)
ANTHROPOMORPHI_E (3)
_INEMATOGRAPHICAL (2)
_NORTHOGRAPHICALLY (2)
_INEMATOGRAPHICALLY (2)
_NCOMPREHENSIBLENESS (2)
ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPH_ (2)
PSEUDOLAMELLIBRANCHIAT_ (2)
I didn't find any solutions for a word length of 25, and decided to stop the search there.
I'm sure, especially as they get longer, the answers will vary depending on the word list you use. Also I only had the program return one solution for each word length, but there are almost certainly other valid solutions of equal length in my own word list.
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Posted by tomarken
on 2022-04-05 09:20:25 |
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