The Gridogram wordlist includes common and uncommon English words, with both American and British English spellings.
Gridogram allows quotes that include words you can’t usually make in a word game: “you’re”, “don’t”, “life’s” (contraction of life is), “sheep’s” (belonging to the sheep), “they’ve”... These words will be available to trace in the grid, skipping the apostrophes, only when actually present in the quote.
If, for example, “it’s” is in the quote, tracing the grid letters will reveal both “its” and “it’s” in the wordlist. This only counts as finding one word, so you can still get 100% accuracy even if “its” is not in the quote (blue border).
Part of the fun can be discovering new words: which did you miss in the grid? So the wordlist requires some curation. Seeing you missed a word nobody’s uttered in the last century isn’t very interesting.
What is a valid word in Gridogram world?
The original English words came from the open-source Wordnik Wordlist. As new Gridograms are created, any missing words are added to the list (e.g. “gilets”), and words with no valid definitions on Wiktionary are removed (e.g. “compt”). As of writing there are 190,060 valid words.
What do you mean by “valid definition”?
Each word has an entry on Wiktionary. A word is excluded if all its English definitions are labelled as one of:
Those are the general principles established so far, aiming to create a modern international English wordlist.
