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Wordle Difficulty Calculator & Game Suite

An all-in-one interactive Wordle toolkit that analyzes word difficulty, hosts a growing suite of creative Wordle-style mini-games, and lets you explore linguistic patterns in fun, challenging ways (only available on Windows so far).

Features

Difficulty Analyzer

  • Enter any 5-letter word to analyze its difficulty.
  • Uses a weighted model of six linguistic factors:
    • LFS – Letter Frequency Score
    • PLFS – Positional Letter Frequency
    • RLP – Repeated Letter Penalty
    • HLT – Hard Letter Transitions
    • WSA – Word Structure Advantage
    • OS – Obscurity Score
  • Displays expected number of guesses and difficulty percentile.

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Mini-Games

1. Guess the Difficulty

Estimate what percentage of Wordle words a given word is harder than.

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2. Rank the Words

Drag-and-drop or click-select to rank 4 words from easiest to hardest.

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3. Difficulty Duel

Pick which of two words is harder. Quick and intuitive!

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4. Odd One Out

Find the fake among four obscure-looking words. Only one is made up!

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5. Wordlocked

You’re locked into a set of rules — find a word that breaks out.

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6. Word Builder Blitz

Create as many 5-letter words as possible in 60 seconds from a random 8-letter pool (with at least 2 vowels).

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7. Word Morph

Connect a start and end word by changing one letter at a time. Every step must be a valid word.

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8. Reverse Wordle

You're given 4 feedback rows. Can you deduce the secret word that produced them?

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9. Letter Leak

Each second reveals a new letter of a scrambled word. The faster you guess it, the better!

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Tech Stack

  • Python 3.9+
  • Tkinter for GUI
  • Pandas for word data processing
  • Scipy for percentile ranking
  • JSON/CSV for word data
  • Designed to be bundled via PyInstaller (one-file app build)

Dataset Info

This app uses a curated CSV with over 13,000+ 5-letter words scored across multiple difficulty dimensions based on linguistic frequency, structure, and obscurity.


Project Goals

Create an intuitive way to measure word difficulty.

Build engaging, educational games inspired by Wordle mechanics.

Help players improve their pattern recognition, vocabulary, and estimation skills.

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An all-in-one interactive Wordle toolkit that analyzes word difficulty, hosts a growing suite of creative Wordle-style mini-games, and lets you explore linguistic patterns in fun, challenging ways.

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