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For some reason, this morning's Wordle made me wonder how often Wordle Solution Words contain repeated letters. So I cobbled together a little script and here are my results. The executive summary is: 32.3% of Wordle Solution Words contain repeated letters.

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    Words with 0 unique letters:     0    0.00 %
    Words with 1 unique letters:     0    0.00 %
    Words with 2 unique letters:     1    0.04 %   e.g. mamma
    Words with 3 unique letters:    57    2.46 %   e.g. vivid
    Words with 4 unique letters:   691   29.85 %   e.g. wryly
    Words with 5 unique letters:  1566   67.65 %   e.g. zonal
 
#2,313
Okay, I am giving up for now. My 4th guess was a proper noun (which I think it just plain wrong), for something I use in cooking. Letters 1, 2 and 5 were green. I am unaware of what this word might be. Time to go do something else as I can't even flunk out on this one.

Mark, tell Mrs J, I hate her. Along with everyone else who got it and especially the puzzle makers. Shame on you. My mother was an English Major. She is rolling over in her grave right now trying to give me a hint.
Louder Mom, louder.
 
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There's nothing to be ashamed of. It is an extremely obscure word that only Thesaurus nerds and authors might know, no offense tonyp and Dave R.

I'll admit it. It's a word I've never heard of before. I discovered it through deduction after I'd given up and started guessing possible combinations. I was lucky, that's all. My wife got it in 4 after I gave her a couple of hints.
 
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Don't feel bad Cal, the practice game where I found it ended with a strikeout for me. I had to look it up after I was told the solution. 🤔

The word is definitely not part of an ordinary guy's vocabulary. I'm sure it never occurs in the same sentence as, "Hold my beer . . . "
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I first heard the Wordle solution word in English class at age 15, during a discussion of Shakespeare's play Hamlet. The word comes up in literary criticism and even moreso in film criticism, whenever there's a sad sack, morose, layabout character. Which means: quite often.

Hitchcock movies are notorious for thisword, as are Ingmar Bergman's. Truffaut's masterpiece "The 400 Blows" is full of thisword. So are Dashiell Hammet's novels. Read criticisms of these works, or better yet, write your own. You'll find thisword all over the place. It's perfectly good, modern English. Just like "fuselage" is modern English although it superficially looks French.
 
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