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It is shorter, but only by 19 removed words and 6 removed answers. Compare for yourself:

https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/main.bd4cb59c.js

https://web.archive.org/web/20220210034340id_/https://www.po...

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Oh, hmm. Perhaps the list has been changed multiple times? It was originally 12972 words (see https://www.poirrier.ca/notes/wordle-optimal/) and was 10638 words as of yesterday. Anyway, some of the words that have been removed are slurs/profanity.

I believe you're mixing it up. There are two arrays of words in the source code. One that contains all the solutions in order, and one that contains all the possible words without repeating any words in the solutions list

So the 10638 words are the set of all possible guesses minus the set of all the solutions.

Oh… I think you’re right. Thanks.

The one you linked also describes the old word lists similarly: https://www.poirrier.ca/notes/wordle/#variant-cheat-mode

It allowed cunts as a guess today :p

There's a bit of confusion here because there's actually 2 word lists. There's a list of ~2,300 words that are ACTUAL words that will some day be the word of the day and there's a list of 12k POSSIBLE words you can enter in

I think OP is correct about them removing ~2k of the possible words

The “possible” words are added to the “answer” words to get the full list of guessable words, which is still around 12k just like it always was.

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