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Show HN: WordRank: A Word Frequency Game

Post by edan » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 5:16 PM UTC

Please give me honest feedback on my first game. It's based on wordle-like mechanics, but you need to rank words in terms of frequency. Using python "wordfreq"

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Re: Show HN: WordRank: A Word Frequency Game

Post by edan » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 6:08 PM UTC

Guess the relative frequency in the English language of 5 words, and share the result with friends.

The fun of this game is that you find unexpected word-frequency rankings.

The mechanics are intended to be simple, but the problem is that ranking and submitting are two steps that might confuse people - I'd love feedback on improving that.

The word frequency comes from python's "wordfreq" package which seems pretty solid.

So far each day's word set is a "theme" but I'm wondering if that is the right approach.

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