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Why is Korea not a valid word? #150

Open SeasonedOtaku opened 4 months ago

SeasonedOtaku commented 4 months ago

Description Among the three far east countries, namely China, Japan and Korea, both China and Japan are valid words, but why isn’t Korea?

Heck, even the Japanese word meaning Chinese characters, namely Kanji, is a valid word. I find this rather strange and annoying as someone with Korean heritage.

Steps to Reproduce See the description. Just tying KOREA in the game will show the word in red.

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thesilican commented 4 months ago

Hi, thanks for raising this issue. I'll try to incorporate KOREA into the next iteration of the word list.

The duotrigordle valid word list (words that are guessable) comes directly from the wordle word list, so it seems like KOREA isn't a valid word in wordle either which is quite strange.

mrankine commented 4 months ago

Other 5-letter countries which are not guessable are BENIN EGYPT GABON GHANA HAITI ITALY KENYA LIBYA MALTA NAURU NEPAL PALAU QATAR SAMOA SYRIA YEMEN.

RogerWTurner commented 3 months ago

Words can have 2 meanings. One could for example japan one's china. Neither of those words is a proper noun in that context.