The New York Times introduced WordleBot in April as a “daily companion” to help analyze your Wordle play, and the team has made some changes with WordleBot 2.0. One of the most significant changes is that the bot no longer restricts its analysis to the subset of five-letter words that are known Wordle solutions — in other words, it is thinking more like a typical human player. Previously, the bot could have harshly judged you for guessing a legitimate word that, for whatever reason, isn’t one of the possible Wordle solutions, which could have felt unfair. According to the NYT’s post about the updates, the bot now has its own dictionary of approximately 4,500 words that it believes players might reasonably guess, and it assigns each of them a probability of being a solution.
