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Wordle Helper

 I recently started playing Wordle, and while I love the game, I kind of got annoyed when I had guessed a couple of words and had only a few left, but had to go through the letters in my head one by one trying to figure out what was possible.  Brute-forcing letters like that is the job of a computer.... So I made a program to help me figure out possible letters more quickly.  

Basically, I took all the 5-letter English words, and knock them down based on what is known to be missing, what is known to be there, what is where, and what is not where.   I hope that someone else enjoys this program.  


#!/usr/bin/python3


''' 

This script reads in a dictioary of 5-letter english (supposedly) words (I AWK'd the five-letter words from a dictionary that may include non-real words), 

and prints out words that remain after the User Defined Variables are entered


Enter User Defined Variables with single quotes, separated by commas (i.e. 'o' or ['t','y'])

- First enter characters that are known in the correct position

- Next, enter characters that are known to be in the word (but not in the correct position)

- Next, enter characters that are known NOT to be in the word

- Last, Enter the characters that are known not to be in the correct position


'''


#dictionary_file = open('/home/john/Downloads/Five-Letter-English_Dictionary_Wordlist.txt', 'r')

dictionary_file = open('/home/john/valid-wordle-words.txt', 'r')

#dictionary_file = open('/home/john/Valid-Wordle-Words.txt', 'r')

Lines = dictionary_file.readlines()


############################################################

#####   Begin User Defined Variable Section   ##############


FirstIs = 's'

SecondIs = ''

ThirdIs = ''

FourthIs = ''

FifthIs = 'e'


IsInWord = ['n','i']

IsNotInWord = ['p','l','a','t','o','r']


FirstIsNot = ['']

SecondIsNot = ['n']

ThirdIsNot = ['i']

FourthIsNot = ['n']

FifthIsNot = ['']


#####  End User Defined Variable Section   ##############

#########################################################


TempFile = []

TempFile2 = []


############### Pocess the letters that are known to be in a place

###### Process First Letter   ##############

if FirstIs != '':     # Process First Letter

for Line in Lines:

if FirstIs == Line[0]:

TempFile.append(Line.strip())

else:

for Line in Lines:

TempFile.append(Line.strip())# Skip First Letter and move along


###### Process Second Letter   ##############

if SecondIs != '':     # Process Second Letter

for item in TempFile:

if SecondIs == item[1]:

TempFile2.append(item.strip())

TempFile = TempFile2

TempFile2 = []


###### Process Third Letter   ##############

if ThirdIs != '':     # Process Third Letter

for item in TempFile:

if ThirdIs == item[2]:

TempFile2.append(item.strip())

TempFile = TempFile2

TempFile2 = []


###### Process Fourth Letter   ##############

if FourthIs != '':     # Process Fourth Letter

for item in TempFile:

if FourthIs == item[3]:

TempFile2.append(item.strip())

TempFile = TempFile2

TempFile2 = []


###### Process Fifth Letter   ##############

if FifthIs != '':     # Process Fifth Letter

for item in TempFile:

if FifthIs == item[4]:

TempFile2.append(item.strip())

TempFile = TempFile2

TempFile2 = []


############### Pocess the letters that are known NOT to be in a place

###### Process First Letter   ##############

if FirstIsNot != ['']:     # Process First Letter

for thing in FirstIsNot:

for item in TempFile:

if thing != item[0]:

TempFile2.append(item.strip())

TempFile = TempFile2

TempFile2 = []


###### Process Second Letter   ##############

if SecondIsNot != ['']:     # Process Second Letter

for thing in SecondIsNot:

for item in TempFile:

if thing != item[1]:

TempFile2.append(item.strip())

TempFile = TempFile2

TempFile2 = []


###### Process Third Letter   ##############

if ThirdIsNot != ['']:     # Process Third Letter

for thing in ThirdIsNot:

for item in TempFile:

if thing != item[2]:

TempFile2.append(item.strip())

TempFile = TempFile2

TempFile2 = []


###### Process Fourth Letter   ##############

if FourthIsNot != ['']:     # Process Fourth Letter

for thing in FourthIsNot:

for item in TempFile:

if thing != item[3]:

TempFile2.append(item.strip())

TempFile = TempFile2

TempFile2 = []


###### Process Fifth Letter   ##############

if FifthIsNot != ['']:     # Process Fifth Letter

for thing in FifthIsNot:

for item in TempFile:

if thing != item[4]:

TempFile2.append(item.strip())

TempFile = TempFile2

TempFile2 = []


#######  Process Known Inclusive Letters ######################

if IsInWord != ['']:

for useme in IsInWord:

for item in TempFile:

if useme in item:

TempFile2.append(item.strip())

TempFile = TempFile2

TempFile2 = []


#######  Process Known Absent Letters ######################

if IsNotInWord != ['']:

for removeme in IsNotInWord:

for item in TempFile:

if removeme not in item:

TempFile2.append(item.strip())

TempFile = TempFile2

TempFile2 = []


#print("Here are the words left to choose from:")

#for item in TempFile:

# print(item.strip())   #  Print out the remaining words



##############################  Print Letters and how often they occur (Letter Frequency Table) #########################################


LetterStats = []


for item in TempFile:

for letter in item:

#print(letter)

if letter in LetterStats:

#print("letter: " + letter + " is in the list... incrimenting count")

letterindex = LetterStats.index(letter)

LetterStats[letterindex + 1]= LetterStats[letterindex + 1] +1

else:

#print("letter: " + letter + " is not in the list... adding....")

LetterStats.append(letter)

LetterStats.append(1)

#print("Here are the letter stats ", LetterStats)


SortedLetterList = []

#print("Length of LetterStats is: " + str(len(LetterStats)))

for i in range(0, len(LetterStats)-1,2):

#print(LetterStats[i])

SortedLetterList.append((LetterStats[i],int(LetterStats[i+1])))

#print("List before sorting: ")

#print(SortedList)


SortedLetterList.sort(key=lambda a: a[1], reverse=True)

print("Letter Frequency Table is: ")

print(SortedLetterList)

print(" ") #skip a linne



#############################   Next up is to give each word a score... If it has an e, it has the number of times e is seen in the remaining word list added to the score.... 

#############################   if it has a t, it has the number of times t is seen added to the score.

#############################   It then sorts the words from highest value to lowest... this will give the 'best' words to pick.

#############################   'best' means it will decrease the remaining words the fastest.  It is assumed that any word left is as likely as any other to be chosen by Wordle


ScoredWordList = []

for item1 in TempFile:  #Iterate through the words left

#print("Iterating through letters of word ", item1)

ScoredWordList.append(item1)

ScoredWordList.append(0)

for i in range(0, len(SortedLetterList)):

#print("Checking to see if ", SortedLetterList[i][0], " is in the word ", item1)

if SortedLetterList[i][0] in item1:  #The letter is in the word

#print(item2[0], "is in word ", item1, ". Adding: ", item2[1], " to the score of ", item1)

ScoredWordList[-1] = ScoredWordList[-1] +  SortedLetterList[i][1]  #  Add to the value of the word

#SortedWordList[:-1] = SortedWordList[:-1] + SortedLetterList[wordscore+1]


#print("This is the Word List with scores\n", ScoredWordList)


SortedScoredWordList = []

for i in range(0, len(ScoredWordList), 2):

SortedScoredWordList.append((ScoredWordList[i],int(ScoredWordList[i+1])))


SortedScoredWordList.sort(key=lambda a: a[1], reverse=True)


print("The best guessing order is:")

for i in SortedScoredWordList:

print(i)


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