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TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vozhd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vozhd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waqf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waqf How many s

TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vozhd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vozhd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waqf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waqf How many such (arguably) obscure words are there in the Wordle word list?

brewmarche 5y ago
Also, how many words are not on the list? I tried “Punic” today (granted that might be considered obscure as well) and it wasn’t accepted. I just checked “Dutch” and it is okay while “Irish” is not.
- mdeck_ 5y ago
  Possibly attributable to the definition of “(going) dutch” as “splitting the bill”? https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dutch https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dutch
- bmm6o 5y ago
  Isn't Punic a proper noun? Those are excluded from most word games.
quibono 5y ago
Apparently there are two word lists: one for the word to be guessed and one to validate user guesses. I imagine vozhd and waqf would appear in the latter lit but not in the former.
- thehours 5y ago
  The words are unique in each list, so the validation is on the combined set.
CrazyCatDog 5y ago
The NYT article suggests that one person validated the list—however that one person is an avid word game player, and is in fact the developer’s partner, for whom the game was created—so said validator likely had a deep vocabulary of highly arcane words!