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In a fit of boredom, I began wondering how many "5th letter" possibilities there could be (i.e. I have four greens and one unknown.)
So I spent a few minutes bashing around the standard linux word list with the usual suspects - grep, awk, tr, sort and uniq.
I found 5 cases where there are 9 possibilities:
*akes *inks *owed *ucks *umps
(I'm sure NYT would disallow some choices in at least one of them  )
Interesting that they are all first position wildcards. From 8s down, wildcards appear in other positions.
30 cases of 8 possibilities... (not all verified, and since the original list includes many proper names, there may be a few spurious entries.)
================ update ==============
 tricked by default sort
Two 12's, two 11's, twelve 10's...
12: *ears *ills
11: *ails *ates
10: *acks *ales *ared *ares *ells *ends *ests *icks *ight *ines *ocks *ulls
All >=9's are first position...
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
modified 23-Sep-22 4:47am.
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Um.
For "*UCKS" I know 12:
BUCKS
DUCKS Plural of DUCK
****S Obvious
GUCKS Oozy, sloppy things
HUCKS To remove shells from a nut, for example
LUCKS As in "she lucks into everything"
MUCKS As in "she mucks out the kids room"
PUCKS As in "hockey pucks"
RUCKS As in Rugby: a loose scrum.
TUCKS As in "she tucks in the bedsheet"
YUCKS Multiple nasty things.
SUCKS As in "she sucks a ice lolly" Most of the other seem to have more than nine as well.
I can also get nine or more quite easily with a fixed first letter: "DO*ED" for example: DOLED, DOMED, DOPED, DOSED, DOTED, DOVED, DOWED, DOXED, DOZED. Some of them are regional / specialist though.
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modified 23-Sep-22 14:05pm.
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I was working from the linux standard distro word list, which is obviously deficient...
It's missing gucks and hucks (and so is my cranial word list)
(I thought the shelling one was husks.)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Shells are husks, huck is the act of removing them which may be a "local thing" - it's "throwing", or "jumping a skateboard", or "rough towelling" depending on which dictionary you look at as well!
(It's definitely in the Scrabble Dictionary, not that that proves anything other than "it's short and got 'CK' in it so that's a lot of points for me")
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Are F and H both worth 4 ? 
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OriginalGriff wrote: I can also get nine or more quite easily with a fixed first letter: "DO*ED" for example: DOLED, DOMED, DOPED, DOSED, DOTED, DOVED, DOWED, DOXED, DOXED.
Or just eight if you ignore duplicates. (DOXED appears twice at the end of your list) 
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Fixed: I missed Z and got X instead ...
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Pretty cool. I'm a bit of a master at picking the wrong choices in Wordle.
I recall the NYTimes said less than 50% of players solved the PARER solution recently. On average the puzzle solving success is closer to 99%.
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I got PARER only because one of my starters has an R in the middle. My streak would be 99 or 100 except I did one on the wrong computer and it didn't go in my stats. I know, I know, get a free NYT account...
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I have not yet seen a 5 letter Wordle that is simply a 4 letter word with an "s" on the end of it to make it a plural. But i have only been playing for a few weeks. Are simple plurals "allowed"?
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I hope not, but they would run out of a words quicker.
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I have no idea what is and isn't on the Wordle word list.
(Not quite true; I've discovered a few that weren't there when I expected them to be.)
As I said in my original message, I started with the standard Linux word list, which I think is targeted at naive spellcheckers.
And although I've played 150+ Wordles, my average retention time of the answer is measured in minutes.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Debugging a bit, words aren't verified via a webservice; there's an embedded wordlist. If you look at the page source in the Chrome debugger, it's under www.nytimes.com / games-assets/v2 in a .js file starting "wordle." I guess the long GUID in the rest of the filename may vary by user etc, but it's easy enough to identify. The wordlist starts at around offset 33900, and appears to be in a random order:
ft=["cigar","rebut","sissy","humph","awake"...
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People who have dug a bit deeper tell me that there are two embedded word lists - one is the "dictionary" of what it recognises as words, the other is the ordered list of daily solutions. (probably the one you found)
Re another subthread above, they also say there are no plurals in the list, so the analysis in my OP is, as I suspected, biased.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Open about junction (5)
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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OVERT - open
OVER - about
T - junction
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Yay - YAUM
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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The formatting has been garbled for me for a couple of weeks, but it only affects Chrome.
Clearing Microsoft cookies doesn't help, and it works fine in Edge.
Gotta be a setting somewhere, because MS wouldn't deliberately bork Chrome pages just to get people to use Edge, would they? 
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: MS wouldn't deliberately bork Chrome pages just to get people to use Edge, would they?
I'm shocked, shocked, that you would think such unworthy thoughts about those selfless benefactors of Humanity in Redmond!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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They use DBAs to write chrome specific CSS.
Something has happened to Chrome. I see the font has changed for me.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Looks fine for me in Chrome 105.
Maybe it's something to do with switching from docs.microsoft.com to learn.microsoft.com?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Still perfectly clear for me - Google Chrome 105.0.5195.127
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Interesting. I just tried it in an incognito tab and ... it works fine.
Strange - I deleted "microsoft" cookies earlier to see if that did anything useful, but no.
At a guess it's a cookie somewhere, but not under MS. Sod it - that'll be fun to find.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Yeah,
I remember just a few years ago everyone was making fun of the 'AI' buzzwords. Yet here we are today. I can say that I am absolutely blown away by what I'm seeing.
Check out some of these (over 7000) generated images.
Generated: 7,240 images generated with DALL•E 2 prompts
What do you think?
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