Compoundle - 1 February 2024 Update

Two minor updates,

There was a bug where if the same substring of appeared twice in both the secret word and the guess only one would be highlighted.  For example, with the secret "VEXED" and the guess "BEGET", only the first "E" would show as a clue.  The logic to prevent overlapping clues was excluding all occurrences of the matched substring rather than just the first one.

In developing Shunt, I found a few shortcomings of the Wiktionary frequency list.  The list contains a number of proper names which are excluded from the puzzle by the full dictionary, these have been filtered out.  (The puzzle generation already sanity checked words from the wiktionary list, but now these should no longer be filling up slots in the 10K/20K/etc. limited word list with unusable values.)  Also, many inflected variants of common words were not themselves in the common word list.  Any common word with "-s", "-ed", "-ing", "-ly" affixes is also considered a common word.  For example, "STOPS" was not previously included in the common word list even though "STOP" is in the most common 1,000 words.