In Wordle today, I was a little annoyed when I had 3 guesses in a row for the one blank I was missing. I checked and it turns out there were 6 5-letter words that matched the pattern I knew, so "in revenge" I made a new page of wordle off-by-one-letter families.
like if you have _EARS or _ILLS you're hosed, each has 12 possible values (bears dears fears gears hears nears pears rears sears tears wears years and bills dills fills gills hills kills mills pills rills sills tills wills)
Oddly, I posted this on my main blog only to find out that 40-years-ago today my then local paper published me and a bunch of other school kids as the ALA Superspellers. So while World is certainly spelling-adjacent, I have since decided I am ok being a terrible speller.
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