Find best starting words for Wordle like games.
This program is inspired by very addictive games like Wordle, Wellowordl, Literalinie, etc.
When I play such a game I start with some good words and I follow my scheme until I have enough hits to make a guess. This tool takes as an argument list of acceptable words and generates suggestions for starting words.
mvn package
java -jar ./target/five-letters-tools-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar path/to/words/file
It may takes couple of minutes to calculate the suggestions depending on number of words in the file.
Example output
Wall clock: 00:05:32.341
adieu story 1500
adieu story chunk 2000
adieu story chunk pilaf 2300
adieu story chunk pilaf dumpy 2500
It reads: computation took 5 minutes and 32 seconds. Best pair of words to start with is adieu and story, they have 1500 hits, where one point is given for every identified letter and additional point for identified position. Best third word is chunk etc.