Word Games
Overview
Retrieving a List of Words
One of the first steps to analyzing English is to first get a list of English words.
Various sources publish English words lists on the Internet.
MIT hosts a list of 10000 comon words at
MIT word list
Another list hosted on github
(
github list) can be found at
English word list
Word lists can be hosted in different
data formats. In the example lists given above,
the file is a simple text file with each word appearing on a new line. That is, each word is separated by a
let data = await $ajax('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dwyl/english-words/master/words.txt');
let words = data.split('\n').filter(p=>p.trim()!=='');
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Filtering Words
One of the common tasks you will have to with a list of words is to filter the list to match some condition.
For example, the popular game
Wordle is a game where a player tries to guess a five letter word. This means that only words with 5 letters
are relevant to the game.
Filtering words is easy using the
filter array function. In the present case,
the following code will create a new list of words that are only 5 characters in length.
let words5 = words.filter(p=>p.length===5);
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