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: Replace 'o' with 'p' for 234 words. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] ([[User talk:Paddy3118|talk]]) 18:18, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
:: Thanks!!
: The 9 most common letters in the dictionary are 'eratnilso' in order. I trid replacing the least common, 'o with any other from a..z and found the 'p'. Later I decided to replace the least common three characters: 'lso' with any combination of three characters from a..z which still only found the same replacement of 'o' by 'p'. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] ([[User talk:Paddy3118|talk]]) 19:02, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
: With unixdict.txt you can get 248 words from "setralinp" (i.e. same letters but with central letter "a"). Word wheel puzzles usually have the additional constraint that there is at least one nine-letter word to be found, in which case the best result with unixdict.txt is 215 words, which you can get from "spearmint" with "a" as the central letter. Using the dictionary "words_alpha.txt" from https://github.com/dwyl/english-words, "setralinp"/"a" generates 1033 words of 3 or more letters, including two nine-letter ones. Perhaps I'll add an "extra credit" part to this task along these lines. -- [[User:Simonjsaunders|Simonjsaunders]] ([[User talk:Simonjsaunders|talk]]) 12:38, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
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