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> the list of 2315 valid secret words

> 2315 was the original number of Wordle secret words. After the New York Times acquired Wordle, it was revised down to only 2309 secret words.

The NYT puzzle is no longer beholden to any specific list for solutions. There's now a larger list (of 3200 words) that Wordlebot thinks are now likely to be solutions based on NYT word frequency data, but some recent solutions (like KEFIR and LORIS) have come from outside even this set. (The NYT did however add those words into the Wordlebot dictionary just before those puzzles went live.)

> 12972 possible 5-letter words

Likewise, the number of legally guessable words has been increased to 14855.

ChatGPT Agent is pretty good at playing Wordle. It's banned from the official version, but it'll play the knock-off ones just fine for you.
Fun analysis! I run https://squareword.org, which has 5x5 letters featuring words both down and across. Guesses are applied to the horizontal words, but the vertical words can be used as support, a bit like in Sudoku.

I wonder how the analysis would work here - since the verticals form words as well I think you get a lot more information from each guess. Many players can now solve them consistently in 6 or 7 guesses.