Word not included in my wordle

[SandyB]

Hi Everyone,
I'm wondering if anyone can tell me why a name which I have put on my
list for my wordle will not show up when it creates my wordle. The
name is Ella. The only reason I can think it is not being included is
because it may be offensive to another culture.
Hope you can help
Sandy

[Mike Parrott]

Wordle ignores certain common words. Too see if that is the problem
make sure "do not remove common words" is checked in the language
menu. You can use wordle advanced to specify exactly what words are
included and their weighting. There is advice on how to do this
simply and quickly elsewhere on this forum.

[Joni]

I had the same problem for "Tom". I experimented with using it alone
and it works but when it is included with a list of names it doesn't
show up. Frustrating--because I want to make a family one.

[Mike Parrott]

You can always use Wordle advanced to specify exactly which words are
displayed, and use the word counts to do all the hard work for you.
Here are the steps:

1. Produce a normal wordle by pasting data into the box in create
2. From the language menu choose "show word count". Cut and paste the
data into a spreadsheet (eg Excel). (There is no menu on the "show
word count box" so you need to highlight the data and then use control-
c to copy it)
3. You should now have a column of text (eg column A) and a column of
number (eg column B). Delete the words you dont want by deleting that
row. Change the weighting by editing the number. You could manually
combine by word stem as well if you want to as Wordle doesn't
currently do that automatically
4. Insert a column between the word and the count and fill it with
colons :
5. Highlight the data in all three columns and copy
6. Paste into Wordle advanced

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