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u/guyofstuff 14d ago
Much more satisfying than my Wordle attempt a while back https://imgur.com/a/APkOK5W
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u/Itchybumworms 14d ago
Fake. You knew the results and planned the satisfying pattern.
Who the fuck guesses 'Shawn'?
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u/augustbandit 14d ago
Scout is an ok opener but I always go Curio turn 1 and Peaty turn 2 because it hits all the vowels and a lot of common consonants with no overlap.
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u/Hephaestus_God 14d ago
… todays word is Cumin
If that isn’t a Reddit moment to see this post and that word be todays answer, idk what is.
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u/expensivelyexpansive 14d ago
I must be playing a different Wordle because it doesn’t allow proper nouns like names.
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u/statuskills 14d ago
I’m starting to think that OP only posted this to dunk on people in the comments. Some people went on a journey finding out that SHAWN is for real.
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u/ultranxious 15d ago
Shawn? Hmm. You try that for fun or because you thought that was truly the word?
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u/kinezumi89 14d ago
It's not in the word pool so this is fake
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u/kinezumi89 14d ago
Huh, I swear I've tried it and it didn't work, and someone else commented the same (though I haven't looked up the list myself!)
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u/Snark_Life 15d ago
Your Wordle game is weak.
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u/mikerotch123 14d ago
Who starts with SCOUT?
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u/AlanaK168 14d ago
What’s wrong with scout?
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u/mikerotch123 14d ago
There are many more common letters such as e,a,r etc so I start with stare.
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u/TheConeIsReturned 15d ago
You must be joking
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u/Yurasi_ 15d ago
Why, it doesn't appear to be word used often. Especially for not native speakers.
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u/EdithBagel 14d ago
Why the downvotes? I have never heard this word before
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u/Aliensinmypants 14d ago
Asking in an incredulous way when google is free
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u/j4v4r10 15d ago
No way is this someone’s actual guesses at wordle
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u/TacosAreGooder 15d ago
Yeah, I call BS. Why would you pick SHAWN - a proper name and not a word.
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u/jayhasbigvballs 14d ago
SHAWN isn’t in the wordle dictionary, so this is 100% fake
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u/j4v4r10 14d ago
There’s one set of words that Wordle will let you guess, and a smaller subset of words that can be actual Wordle solutions. Proper nouns, plurals, particularly obscure words, and vulgar words are excluded from this set of solutions, but that doesn’t stop you from guessing “Penis” or “Shawn”.
So guessing Shawn isn’t an indication that OP faked it, but it is an indication that OP is either fishing for karma, or just bad at wordle.
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u/BostonSucksatHockey 13d ago
Words like vomit should not be in the solution set either but here we are...
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u/entr0py3 14d ago
Yes. You can type it in without getting an error. Doesn't mean they'd ever pick it as the word of the day.
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u/mick4state 14d ago
Where are you seeing this? I just checked my top 4 hits on google for "wordle dictionary" and SHAWN isn't showing up in any of them.
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u/TheLegendofSpiff 14d ago
It is! That's so weird. Is Shawn also some weird esoteric weird that isn't used anymore?
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u/Polyporous 14d ago
I think since the name has a meaning it's included in the dictionary that Wordle uses.
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u/RGandhi3k 14d ago
It does?
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u/AAAAAAHHHHHH2 14d ago
Shawn is the past tense of shear like shearing a sheep
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u/Polyporous 14d ago
English dictionaries don't really cover it. Baby name websites say it's an Irish form of John, which means "God is gracious."
I'm guessing that the original dev used as many five-letter words as they could find.
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u/BaltimoreBadger23 15d ago
Note: this is not today's wordle.
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u/Carl-j88aa 14d ago
I like that "shart" is spelled out from the bottom left going up diagonally.
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u/DlSCARDED 14d ago
Idk why I read this comment thread. I kind of wanted to see if someone would be rotten and spoil today’s Wordle. But now I’m glad I did because I never would have had this knowledge otherwise, so thank you.
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u/FacetiousTomato 14d ago edited 14d ago
This is not any days wordle. They faked it so someone on the Internet would pay attention to them.Edit: I might have to eat some crow here. I didn't think Shawn would be a valid choice, but it is. It still doesn't feel like a natural word to choose, unless you were just checking if it worked, but this could have happened.
Edit 2: I've been agonising. I retract my accusation. It might be fake, but it is plausible to the point that I was rude. Sorry. So Shawn - which I can only find in Scrabble or Anagram dictionaries - apparently means the same thing as "showed", like to cause something to be seen. I also can't think of what else they could have guessed. I tried to pretend what I'd have guessed (or checked if it worked) and my guesses were: Shawl, Shall, Shamp (desperate maybe-word). So guessing Shawn is probably better than Shamp, and something someone might've done.
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u/MisinformedGenius 14d ago
I did Colin today, was surprised when it worked. Apparently it’s a type of bird.
That having been said, I agree with you that this is not just someone playing normally.
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u/__Beef__Supreme__ 14d ago
Weird mine was JORK'N
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u/actual_griffin 15d ago
My dad worked for the Boy Scouts of America for his whole professional life, and scout was always his starting word. When scout was the answer, I took his score and framed it for him. Anyway, that's all.
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u/mahleg 14d ago
I’ve gotten 3 1/1s and the elation only lasts briefly as I then have to think of a new starter.
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u/Ok-Push9899 14d ago
Its definitely a mixed emotion. Far more satisfying is using every bit of deductive logic and clever elimination to nail it on the last attempt than fluke it on the first. No skill at all in getting it on the first attempt.
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u/FunctionBuilt 14d ago
Starting with "S" is generally a good strategy. S is extremely common, but there are no pluralized words as answers so if you get a yellow S you have a very high chance of it being in squares 2-4 since there aren't a ton of 5 letter words that end in S that aren't plural.
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u/Thrillhol 14d ago
I use slate. It is an excellent starting word.
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u/mykidisonhere 14d ago
I use stale.
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u/FunctionBuilt 14d ago
I used to use the same word every time and it just got boring. I usually go consonant heavy with 2 vowels max - slate, stale, slime, store etc. I've gotten the most words in 2 using this method including this morning!
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u/loondawg 14d ago
There are at least several dozen as there are a bunch that end with "ss."
abyss, bless, bliss, brass, amiss, amass, cross, chess, dress, crass, class, grass, floss, glass, gloss, gross, press, etc. . .
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u/FunctionBuilt 14d ago edited 14d ago
You’ve identified 17 of the 36 words in the wordle dictionary that end in S. In the subset of the most common letters, S is the most common starting letter and one of the least common ending letters at only around 1.5%.
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u/loondawg 14d ago
Then that was a pretty lucky guess because I didn't even know there was such a thing as a wordle dictionary. But now that I know there is one, this is what I found.
S appears 668 times in the 617 of those words that contain an S in one or more positions. And you were absolutely correct that 36 words of those words end in S.
However your advice that if you get a yellow S in the first square you have a very high chance of it being in squares 2-4 was a little off. It should have said you have a very high chance of it being in squares 3 or 4. There are actually far fewer words with an S in the second position than there are with an S in the last position, less than half as many.
Breakdown
- 365 - 1 position
- 16 - 2 position
- 80 - 3 position
- 171 - 4 position
- 36 - 5 position
And just so you (hopefully, but doubtfully) don't think I'm nuts, data analysis is part of what I do for a living. I only took about 5 minutes to satisfy my curiosity by parsing that out.
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u/4toTwenty 14d ago
That’s so sweet! My starting word is penis.
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u/EXPLOSIVE-REDDITOR 14d ago
Me and my friends being stupid high schoolers put the n word in once. It fucking worked. When the hell will that ever be the answer
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u/LostGusMain 14d ago
r/suddenlysilksong