spellingbee

New York Times Spelling Bee cheat

Given a set of 1 required letter and 6 optional letters and a dictionary, generate a list of words that satisfy these rules:

• must contain required letter
• must have length of 4 or greater
• must not contain letters outside the set of required+optional letters

Note: a word may repeat any letter.

Setup

npm install

Usage

npm run cheat REQUIRED OPTIONALS DICT

where

• REQUIRED is a single letter
• OPTIONALS is a string of six letters
• DICT is an optional string containing share (default), dwyl, or ecprice