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How many five letter words are there in the English language anyway?

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xyzzy

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Feb 23, 2022, 11:39:10 AM2/23/22
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And how soon before Wordle, Quordle, Sedecordle, Megaordle (ok I made the
last one up) exhaust them all?

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Johnny RSFCootball

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Feb 23, 2022, 11:49:24 AM2/23/22
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I’m prepared and ready with my four-word/twenty-letter opening gambit.

The NOTBCS Guy

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Feb 23, 2022, 12:48:32 PM2/23/22
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The Free Dictionary lists 158,390 5-letter words.

There are 11,881,376 "words" if you can use any five letters (e.g. "qzaab" and "rtflh" are words). Of course, this would make Wordle much harder.

Eric Ramon

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Feb 23, 2022, 3:50:47 PM2/23/22
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there are more words than there are countries so globle and wordle will go first
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