> (state of being useful): usefulness, value, advantages, benefit, return, merits, virtue, note
where "note" is a synonym of distinction, not utility, and Thesaurus:utility has fewer entries than this. Versatility should be listed in Thesaurus:utility as a related concept."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"We mourn our craft"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_wizzwizz4","story_46926245"],"author":"wizzwizz4","children":[46938521],"comment_text":"If the thesaurus had an entry for "very useful" (as WordHippo does), then yes, it would work against an actual physical thesaurus book. This whole cluster of words is coded into Wiktionary incorrectly \u2013 for example, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/utility#Synonyms is a subsection of "Adjective" despite listing synonyms for a sense of the noun:
> (state of being useful): usefulness, value, advantages, benefit, return, merits, virtue, note
where "note" is a synonym of distinction, not utility, and Thesaurus:utility has fewer entries than this. Versatility should be listed in Thesaurus:utility as a related concept.","created_at":"2026-02-08T20:00:19Z","created_at_i":1770580819,"objectID":"46937924","parent_id":46934773,"story_id":46926245,"story_title":"We mourn our craft","story_url":"https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/","updated_at":"2026-03-05T23:32:41Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"dgacmu"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["wordhippo"],"value":"'multifarious uses' -> the implication would be having not just many but also a wide diversity of uses
M-W gives an example use of "Today\u2019s Thermomix has become a beast of multifarious functionality. \u2014 Matthew Korfhage, Wired News, 21 Nov. 2025 "
wordhippo strikes me as having gone beyond the traditional paper thesaurus, but I can accept that things change and that we can make a much larger thesaurus than we did when we had to collect and print. thesaurus.com does not offer these results, though, as a reflection of a more traditional one, nor does the m-w thesaurus."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"We mourn our craft"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_dgacmu","story_46926245"],"author":"dgacmu","comment_text":"'multifarious uses' -> the implication would be having not just many but also a wide diversity of uses
M-W gives an example use of "Today\u2019s Thermomix has become a beast of multifarious functionality. \u2014 Matthew Korfhage, Wired News, 21 Nov. 2025 "
wordhippo strikes me as having gone beyond the traditional paper thesaurus, but I can accept that things change and that we can make a much larger thesaurus than we did when we had to collect and print. thesaurus.com does not offer these results, though, as a reflection of a more traditional one, nor does the m-w thesaurus.","created_at":"2026-02-07T20:24:13Z","created_at_i":1770495853,"objectID":"46927547","parent_id":46927279,"story_id":46926245,"story_title":"We mourn our craft","story_url":"https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/","updated_at":"2026-03-05T23:32:10Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"wizzwizz4"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["wordhippo"],"value":"I plugged "admitting a large number of uses" into OneLook Thesaurus (https://www.onelook.com/thesaurus/?s=admitting%20a%20large%2...), and it returned:
> Best match is versatile which usually means: Capable of many different uses
with "multi-purpose", "adaptable", "flexible" and "multi-use" as the runner-up candidates.
---
Like you, I had no idea that tools like OneLook Thesaurus existed (despite how easy it would be to make one), so here's my attempt to look this up manually.
"Admitting a large number of uses" -> manually abbreviated to "very useful" -> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/useful -> dead end. Give up, use a thesaurus.
https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/another-word-for/very_usef..., sense 2 "Usable in multiple ways", lists:
> useful multipurpose versatile flexible multifunction adaptable all-around all-purpose all-round multiuse multifaceted extremely useful one-size-fits-all universal protean general general-purpose [\u2026]
Taking advantage of the fact my passive vocabulary is greater than my active vocabulary: no, no, yes. (I've spuriously rejected "multipurpose" \u2013 a decent synonym of "versatile [tool]" \u2013 but that doesn't matter.) I'm pretty sure WordHippo is machine-generated from some corpus, and a lot of these words don't mean "very useful", but they're good at playing the SEO game, and I'm lazy. Once we have versatile, we can put that into an actual thesaurus: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/thesaurus/versatile. But none of those really have the same sense as "versatile" in the context I'm thinking of (except perhaps "adaptable"), so if I were writing something, I'd go with "versatile".
Total time taken: 15 seconds. And I'm confident that the answer is correct.
By the way, I'm not finding "multifarious" anywhere. It's not a word I'm familiar with, but that doesn't actually seem to be a proper synonym (according to Wiktionary, at least: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Thesaurus:heterogeneous). There are certainly contexts where you could use this word in place of "versatile" (e.g. "versatile skill-set" \u2192 "multifarious skill-set"), but I criticise WordHippo for far less dubious synonym suggestions."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"We mourn our craft"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_wizzwizz4","story_46926245"],"author":"wizzwizz4","children":[46927547,46934759,46934773],"comment_text":"I plugged "admitting a large number of uses" into OneLook Thesaurus (https://www.onelook.com/thesaurus/?s=admitting%20a%20large%2...), and it returned:
> Best match is versatile which usually means: Capable of many different uses
with "multi-purpose", "adaptable", "flexible" and "multi-use" as the runner-up candidates.
---
Like you, I had no idea that tools like OneLook Thesaurus existed (despite how easy it would be to make one), so here's my attempt to look this up manually.
"Admitting a large number of uses" -> manually abbreviated to "very useful" -> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/useful -> dead end. Give up, use a thesaurus.
https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/another-word-for/very_usef..., sense 2 "Usable in multiple ways", lists:
> useful multipurpose versatile flexible multifunction adaptable all-around all-purpose all-round multiuse multifaceted extremely useful one-size-fits-all universal protean general general-purpose [\u2026]
Taking advantage of the fact my passive vocabulary is greater than my active vocabulary: no, no, yes. (I've spuriously rejected "multipurpose" \u2013 a decent synonym of "versatile [tool]" \u2013 but that doesn't matter.) I'm pretty sure WordHippo is machine-generated from some corpus, and a lot of these words don't mean "very useful", but they're good at playing the SEO game, and I'm lazy. Once we have versatile, we can put that into an actual thesaurus: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/thesaurus/versatile. But none of those really have the same sense as "versatile" in the context I'm thinking of (except perhaps "adaptable"), so if I were writing something, I'd go with "versatile".
Total time taken: 15 seconds. And I'm confident that the answer is correct.
By the way, I'm not finding "multifarious" anywhere. It's not a word I'm familiar with, but that doesn't actually seem to be a proper synonym (according to Wiktionary, at least: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Thesaurus:heterogeneous). There are certainly contexts where you could use this word in place of "versatile" (e.g. "versatile skill-set" \u2192 "multifarious skill-set"), but I criticise WordHippo for far less dubious synonym suggestions.","created_at":"2026-02-07T20:03:26Z","created_at_i":1770494606,"objectID":"46927279","parent_id":46926998,"story_id":46926245,"story_title":"We mourn our craft","story_url":"https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/","updated_at":"2026-03-05T23:32:10Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"rjh29"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["wordhippo"],"value":"I recommend WordHippo ( https://www.wordhippo.com/ ) as a one-stop shop for word stuff."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Tell HN: (dictionary|thesaurus).reference.com is now a spam site"}},"_tags":["comment","author_rjh29","story_44415289"],"author":"rjh29","children":[44418426],"comment_text":"I recommend WordHippo ( https://www.wordhippo.com/ ) as a one-stop shop for word stuff.","created_at":"2025-06-29T22:20:28Z","created_at_i":1751235628,"objectID":"44417070","parent_id":44415289,"story_id":44415289,"story_title":"Tell HN: (dictionary|thesaurus).reference.com is now a spam site","updated_at":"2025-10-21T23:03:40Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"netsharc"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["wordhippo"],"value":"Interesting that one of them in the CSV was a Russian phrase: https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-meaning-of/russian-wor...
, where all the letters are representable using ASCII (B is pronounced V in Russian)"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"California vanity license plate applications with reasons for rejection"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://github.com/veltman/ca-license-plates"}},"_tags":["comment","author_netsharc","story_44025022"],"author":"netsharc","children":[44025356],"comment_text":"Interesting that one of them in the CSV was a Russian phrase: https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-meaning-of/russian-wor...
, where all the letters are representable using ASCII (B is pronounced V in Russian)","created_at":"2025-05-18T23:58:31Z","created_at_i":1747612711,"objectID":"44025253","parent_id":44025022,"story_id":44025022,"story_title":"California vanity license plate applications with reasons for rejection","story_url":"https://github.com/veltman/ca-license-plates","updated_at":"2025-05-19T00:17:44Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"NetOpWibby"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["wordhippo"],"value":"My apologies for not being fluent in the Japanese language.
I didn't look deeper than WordHippo[1] for translation.
---
[1]: https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the/japanese-word-for-244f..."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Uch\u016b \u2013 Color palette for internet lovers"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://uchu.style"}},"_tags":["comment","author_NetOpWibby","story_43072338"],"author":"NetOpWibby","children":[43074918],"comment_text":"My apologies for not being fluent in the Japanese language.
I didn't look deeper than WordHippo[1] for translation.
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Rhymezone (which does more than rhymes) was my favorite prior to finding WordHippo."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Classnames \u2013 a site that provides thematically grouped lists of words"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://classnames.paulrobertlloyd.com"}},"_tags":["comment","author_joekrill","story_38401794"],"author":"joekrill","comment_text":"This site links to Wordnik, which is a great site, but lately I've been using WordHippo to find similar words or narrow in on a word that better fits what I'm describing. The way it groups by meaning is much more convenient. 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These days only if I\u2019m pretty stuck and just don\u2019t want to fill a sheet of paper with manual permutations."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Nearly Cheating"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://leancrew.com/all-this/2023/11/nearly-cheating/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_ghaff","story_38401491"],"author":"ghaff","comment_text":"I used to use Word Hippo quite a bit. These days only if I\u2019m pretty stuck and just don\u2019t want to fill a sheet of paper with manual permutations.","created_at":"2023-11-25T19:47:33Z","created_at_i":1700941653,"objectID":"38416073","parent_id":38414643,"story_id":38401491,"story_title":"Nearly Cheating","story_url":"https://leancrew.com/all-this/2023/11/nearly-cheating/","updated_at":"2024-09-20T15:45:31Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"layer8"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["wordhippo"],"value":"WordHippo also does this: https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/another-word-for/example.h..."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Using the Wrong Dictionary (2014)"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary"}},"_tags":["comment","author_layer8","story_37368505"],"author":"layer8","children":[37372108],"comment_text":"WordHippo also does this: https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/another-word-for/example.h...","created_at":"2023-09-03T17:06:41Z","created_at_i":1693760801,"objectID":"37372018","parent_id":37371908,"story_id":37368505,"story_title":"Using the Wrong Dictionary (2014)","story_url":"https://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary","updated_at":"2025-12-06T01:13:25Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"harshithmul"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["wordhippo"],"value":"We took the first/3rd meanings https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/another-word-for/poozle.ht... but missed in between :("},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: Poozle \u2013 open-source Plaid for LLMs"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://github.com/poozlehq/poozle"}},"_tags":["comment","author_harshithmul","story_37180017"],"author":"harshithmul","comment_text":"We took the first/3rd meanings https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/another-word-for/poozle.ht... but missed in between :(","created_at":"2023-08-19T06:07:42Z","created_at_i":1692425262,"objectID":"37186029","parent_id":37185977,"story_id":37180017,"story_title":"Show HN: Poozle \u2013 open-source Plaid for LLMs","story_url":"https://github.com/poozlehq/poozle","updated_at":"2024-09-20T14:54:19Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"jay_kyburz"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["wordhippo"],"value":"Not what you asked, but I prefer https://www.wordhippo.com/ when I need a thesaurus. Its never gone crazy on me yet.
https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/another-word-for/deadly.ht..."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"What Is Happening with ChatGPT?"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://chat.openai.com/share/ca5e0c33-7a19-41a1-8f8a-b146b68e2d1a"}},"_tags":["comment","author_jay_kyburz","story_37070838"],"author":"jay_kyburz","comment_text":"Not what you asked, but I prefer https://www.wordhippo.com/ when I need a thesaurus. Its never gone crazy on me yet.
https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/another-word-for/deadly.ht...","created_at":"2023-08-10T02:54:40Z","created_at_i":1691636080,"objectID":"37071384","parent_id":37070839,"story_id":37070838,"story_title":"What Is Happening with ChatGPT?","story_url":"https://chat.openai.com/share/ca5e0c33-7a19-41a1-8f8a-b146b68e2d1a","updated_at":"2024-09-20T14:52:18Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"polotics"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["wordhippo"],"value":"compare and contrast:\nhttps://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2021/02/20/ancient-greek-s...\n...\nhttps://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the/greek-word-for-a7f9b77..."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"The Goddess Complex"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://theamericanscholar.org/the-goddess-complex/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_polotics","story_35705325"],"author":"polotics","comment_text":"compare and contrast:\nhttps://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2021/02/20/ancient-greek-s...\n...\nhttps://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the/greek-word-for-a7f9b77...","created_at":"2023-04-27T19:57:30Z","created_at_i":1682625450,"objectID":"35733708","parent_id":35732915,"story_id":35705325,"story_title":"The Goddess Complex","story_url":"https://theamericanscholar.org/the-goddess-complex/","updated_at":"2024-09-20T13:58:37Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"ghaff"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["wordhippo"],"value":"I did use Word Hippo as a bit of a crutch sometimes when I was starting out and got stuck but haven't looked at it in many months."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Every possible Wordle solution visualized"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.perthirtysix.com/essay/wordle-solutions-visualized"}},"_tags":["comment","author_ghaff","story_35256288"],"author":"ghaff","comment_text":"I did use Word Hippo as a bit of a crutch sometimes when I was starting out and got stuck but haven't looked at it in many months.","created_at":"2023-03-22T12:15:31Z","created_at_i":1679487331,"objectID":"35259896","parent_id":35257317,"story_id":35256288,"story_title":"Every possible Wordle solution visualized","story_url":"https://www.perthirtysix.com/essay/wordle-solutions-visualized","updated_at":"2024-09-20T13:39:28Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"benatkin"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["wordhippo"],"value":"Is the author from the UK? "Pile of weed" sounds like marijuana. I would say "pile of weeds". Like "some weed" vs "some weeds". Plus https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/another-word-for/relieve_o..."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ghost boat with GPS leads father-son duo to man overboard"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.garmin.com/en-US/blog/marine/ghost-boat-with-garmin-gps-leads-father-son-duo-to-man-overboard/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_benatkin","story_34665800"],"author":"benatkin","comment_text":"Is the author from the UK? "Pile of weed" sounds like marijuana. I would say "pile of weeds". Like "some weed" vs "some weeds". Plus https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/another-word-for/relieve_o...","created_at":"2023-02-05T18:54:41Z","created_at_i":1675623281,"objectID":"34667696","parent_id":34665800,"story_id":34665800,"story_title":"Ghost boat with GPS leads father-son duo to man overboard","story_url":"https://www.garmin.com/en-US/blog/marine/ghost-boat-with-garmin-gps-leads-father-son-duo-to-man-overboard/","updated_at":"2024-09-20T13:17:01Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"sys32768"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["wordhippo"],"value":"I find https://www.wordhippo.com/ a much superior vocabulary discovery tool. It has myriad (very many) recommendations for "very late" whereas losetheevery.com has none."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Replace the \u201cvery\u201d in your sentence"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.losethevery.com/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_sys32768","story_33196773"],"author":"sys32768","comment_text":"I find https://www.wordhippo.com/ a much superior vocabulary discovery tool. It has myriad (very many) recommendations for "very late" whereas losetheevery.com has none.","created_at":"2022-10-14T16:13:13Z","created_at_i":1665763993,"objectID":"33205447","parent_id":33196773,"story_id":33196773,"story_title":"Replace the \u201cvery\u201d in your sentence","story_url":"https://www.losethevery.com/","updated_at":"2024-09-20T12:11:57Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"bitdivision"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["wordhippo"],"value":"DDG works great if you search for `happy synonyms`. It even has an equivalent list of synonyms embedded in the results page.
Actually even with "what is another word for happy", the first result is a wordhippo synonyms page.
Though I agree that question based queries are probably more popular these days, and DDG isn't handling them as well. I imagine this doesn't bother the tech / privacy crowd too much."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"My take on how DuckDuckGo can outperform Google"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://daniloedu.medium.com/my-take-on-how-duckduckgo-can-outperform-google-e52191e49558"}},"_tags":["comment","author_bitdivision","story_32433696"],"author":"bitdivision","comment_text":"DDG works great if you search for `happy synonyms`. It even has an equivalent list of synonyms embedded in the results page.
Actually even with "what is another word for happy", the first result is a wordhippo synonyms page.
Though I agree that question based queries are probably more popular these days, and DDG isn't handling them as well. I imagine this doesn't bother the tech / privacy crowd too much.","created_at":"2022-08-12T02:53:02Z","created_at_i":1660272782,"objectID":"32434275","parent_id":32434212,"story_id":32433696,"story_title":"My take on how DuckDuckGo can outperform Google","story_url":"https://daniloedu.medium.com/my-take-on-how-duckduckgo-can-outperform-google-e52191e49558","updated_at":"2024-09-20T11:48:36Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"NegativeLatency"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["wordhippo"],"value":"Yeah I'd totally agree with that, IMO the hallmark of true "cycling culture" is people using it to get stuff done, vs it being a sport or recreational activity.
The Dutch actually have two different words for people who ride bikes, one being for transportation and the other being a sport/competition/touring one: https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the/dutch-word-for-5515a2c..."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"The Making of Lesotho's Robust Cycling Culture (2021)"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://allafrica.com/stories/202112020407.html"}},"_tags":["comment","author_NegativeLatency","story_32211440"],"author":"NegativeLatency","comment_text":"Yeah I'd totally agree with that, IMO the hallmark of true "cycling culture" is people using it to get stuff done, vs it being a sport or recreational activity.
The Dutch actually have two different words for people who ride bikes, one being for transportation and the other being a sport/competition/touring one: https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the/dutch-word-for-5515a2c...","created_at":"2022-07-25T22:56:48Z","created_at_i":1658789808,"objectID":"32232054","parent_id":32231262,"story_id":32211440,"story_title":"The Making of Lesotho's Robust Cycling Culture (2021)","story_url":"https://allafrica.com/stories/202112020407.html","updated_at":"2024-09-20T11:38:40Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"ghaff"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["wordhippo"],"value":"Of course, doing what I wrote also makes the assumption that the person playing is using one of the top 10 (or whatever) starting words which may or may not be correct.
That aside, I started playing a 6 letter variant and, while I haven't done any sort of analysis with access to the word list, I did do a quick Word Hippo analysis of words with common letters, especially vowels, and while I'm sure my results aren't optimal they're probably pretty good.
ADDED: Which I think is probably not all that different from what your code is doing. I fed Word Hippo 4 or 5 letters and told it to come up with some common words.
But that still requires an assumption that a player has given some thought to good starting guesses."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: I built a Wordle decoder that guesses your guesses"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://github.com/mattruzicka/wordle_decoder"}},"_tags":["comment","author_ghaff","story_30570029"],"author":"ghaff","comment_text":"Of course, doing what I wrote also makes the assumption that the person playing is using one of the top 10 (or whatever) starting words which may or may not be correct.
That aside, I started playing a 6 letter variant and, while I haven't done any sort of analysis with access to the word list, I did do a quick Word Hippo analysis of words with common letters, especially vowels, and while I'm sure my results aren't optimal they're probably pretty good.
ADDED: Which I think is probably not all that different from what your code is doing. I fed Word Hippo 4 or 5 letters and told it to come up with some common words.
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