Spelling Bee

NYT Spelling Bee board generating tool.

Dictionary

Matthew Reagan's Webster Dictionary

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This dictionary seems to be missing a lot of words, but also has a ton of uncommon words.

Google's 10k Most Used English n-grams

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Specifically using the 10k most common words.

Peter Norvig's n-grams

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Specifically using the 1/3 Million most common words, but using sed 's/[0-9]*//g' to remove the frequencies.

This does not contain all the missing words I've been looking for, and has a lot of words that clearly don't exist.

Dwyl >466k English Words

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Contains a lot of the missing words I've been looking for, but also has a lot of words that clearly don't exist.

Rules of Spelling Bee Boards

Spelling bee boards must...

• contain 7 unique characters.
• designate a single character as the center character.
• place all other characters elsewhere on the board.

Spelling bee boards may...

• place other characters anywhere other than the center character.

Rules of Spelling Bee Answers

Spelling bee answers must...

• include the center character
• be 4 characters or longer

Spelling bee answers may...

• contain the same letter multiple times.

Custom Data Structures

UniqueCharSet

Given some input word, it will map it to a data structure that contains relevant information about it's unique characters. It also implements equality/hashcode based on the unique characters.

e.g.

// These two instances would be considered equal
UniqueCharSet("foo") == UniqueCharSet("oof")

// Duplicate characters are handled as well
UniqueCharSet("foo") == UniqueCharSet("of")