The player of the partially-completed Wordle game wants some Pyret "assistance". Open the Spell Checker Starter File and click "Run".
1 In the Interactions Area, test each of the three lines of code (below).
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2 Which line of code would you recommend for the player? Why?
3 The solution to the game above is "camel". Look back at the suggestions in your Interactions Area. Did any of the lists include it?
4 We used the very same function (alt-words) for each entry. Why didn’t we receive the same results from all 3 expressions?
5 To see the words in the WORDS-100 dictionary, type WORDS-100 into the Interactions Area and then click on tree-set. How many words are in this list?
6 What do you notice about the words in the list?
7 What do you wonder?
8 As you might have guessed, the WORDS-1000 dictionary contains 1000 words and the WORDS-ALL dictionary contains even more (2314). How does that help explain the fact that alt-words("games", WORDS-ALL) returned the most suggestions?
★ Let’s imagine that
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this-wordandthat-wordrepresent two different five-letter words -
alt-words(this-word, WORDS-ALL)produces a list that includesthat-word
Would you expect alt-words(that-word, WORDS-ALL) to produce a list that includes this-word? Why or why not?
★ Can you produce an input that returns more than one word from the WORDS-100 dictionary? If so, what is it?
These materials were developed partly through support of the National Science Foundation, (awards 1042210, 1535276, 1648684, 1738598, 2031479, and 1501927). 
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