https://github.com/mevdschee/spelwijze-generator

Generator for the spelling game that is published on Dutch newspaper websites
https://github.com/mevdschee/spelwijze-generator

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Generator for the spelling game that is published on Dutch newspaper websites

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mevdschee/spelwijze-generator
• Owner: mevdschee
• License: mit
• Created: 2024-09-09T21:54:36.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-10-16T01:12:16.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-26T15:02:39.826Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: command-line-tool, game-generator, spelling, spelling-game, word-game
• Language: Go
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• Size: 4.52 MB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Spelwijze generator

"Spelwijze" is spelling game that is published on Dutch newspaper websites. You get 1 mandatory letter and 6 optional letters. The goal is to make as many 4 or more letter words with these 7 letters containing at least the mandatory letter once. This repository contains a tool to generate these puzzles.

### Sources

Download Dutch words from:

https://www.opentaal.org/bestanden/file/2-woordenlijst-v-2-10g-bronbestanden

To filter out non-letter characters (go from 164313 to 156280 words) execute:

    cat 'OpenTaal-210G-basis-gekeurd.txt' | grep -vP '[^a-z]' | sort | uniq | gzip > words.txt.gz

Download Dutch word freqencies from:

https://wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de/en/download/Dutch

To filter the word frequency list (go from 1000000 to 515630 words) execute:

    cat 'nld_mixed_2012_1M-words.txt' | cut -f 2,3 | tr A-Z a-z | grep -P '^[a-z]+\t' | gzip > wordfreq.txt.gz

The text files are gzipped to reduce space.

Optional: Download another great list from:

https://kaikki.org/dictionary/Dutch/words/index.html

To filter the verbs:

    cat kaikki.org-dictionary-Dutch.jsonl | grep '"pos": "verb"' | grep -o '"head_templates": \[{"name": "nl-verb", "args": {}, "expansion": "[a-z]\{4,\}"' | sort | uniq | cut -d\" -f 12 | gzip > verbs.txt.gz

To filter the nouns:

    cat kaikki.org-dictionary-Dutch.jsonl | grep '"pos": "noun"' | grep -v '"plural"' | grep -o '"word": "[a-z]\+"' | cut -d: -f2 | cut -d\" -f 2 | sort | uniq | gzip > nouns.txt.gz

To add and combine these:

    mv words.txt.gz words1.txt.gz

    zcat words1.txt.gz verbs.txt.gz nouns.txt.gz | sort | uniq | gzip > words.txt.gz

    rm words1.txt.gz verbs.txt.gz nouns.txt.gz

Now the extra words are added.

### Running

Now run pick a length for your seeding word (a word with 7 different letters):

    go run . 16

Showing all 16 letter words consisting of exactly 7 different letters:

    begijnenbeweging

    binnenduingebied

    bloembollenteelt

    concernonderdeel

    engineeringgroep

    espressoapparaat

    exercitieterrein

    geestesgestoorde

    herinterpreteren

    intentionaliteit

    ...(23 more)...

Now pick a seeding word and run:

    go run . bloembollenteelt

Resulting in 7 different 7 letter combinations (points based on word frequency):

    tbelmno: 728

    eblmnot: 725

    nbelmot: 711

    obelmnt: 534

    belmnot: 194

    mbelnot: 164

    lbemnot: 119

Now if we chose "mbelnot" (where "m" is the mandatory letter) we can run:

    go run . mbelnot

To find all 110 words with minimum length 4 that contain the letter "m" and one or more of the other 6 letters:

    beetnemen

    bemeten

    benemen

    benoemen

    betomen

    betonelement

    betonmolen

    bloem

    bloembol

    bloembollenteelt

    ...(100 more)...

Enjoy!