NYT Spelling Bee Words Generator

 My friends Pam, Derek and Kate showed me the game Wordle.  Recently, Pam mentioned that there are other games at the New York Times, I found Spelling Bee (https://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/spelling-bee).  In Spelling Bee, your goal is to make as many words as you can, you are given 7 characters, the central character must be used, only the seven characters may be used, the characters may be repeated, the words must be at least four characters long, longer words are worth more points than shorter words.  I decided to create a quick python script to get the words and sorts by longest words first.  Today's puzzle has "P" as the central letter, the 7 characters including the central character were "DEHIANP." 

#Kevin Lease new york times spelling bee 2023

import string 

keepwords = []

keepwords_by_length = []

wordchars = []

central_letter = "p"

allcharactersstring = "dehianp"

allcharacters = []

for letter in allcharactersstring:  

        allcharacters.append(letter)

def test_word_for_no_bad_characters(test_word):

        flag = 1

        for letter in test_word:

                if letter not in allcharacters:

                        flag = 0

        return(flag)

with open("words_alpha.txt") as file:

        allwords = file.read().splitlines()

for i in allwords:

        if len(i) > 3: #words have to be at least four characters

                if central_letter in i: #words have to contain a character

                        if (test_word_for_no_bad_characters(i)):

                                keepwords.append(i)

keepwords_by_length = sorted(keepwords, key=len, reverse=True)

for i in keepwords_by_length:

        print(i)

 Output:

pinnipedian

adiphenine

aphidiinae

deadpanned

pinnipedia

anapanapa

aphididae

diaphanie

panheaded

pinheaded

apennine

aphidian

appended

daphnean

deepened

depended

diaphane

diphenan

ephippia

happened

hippidae

paninean

pinnidae

pinniped

anaphia

anapnea

apadana

aphidid

daphnad

daphnia

daphnid

daphnin

deadpan

diphead

epeidia

epinine

headpin

hiphape

hippian

napaean

nepidae

ninepin

paideia

pandani

pandean

pandied

panhead

pannade

panpipe

paphian

pappain

penhead

pennied

pennine

phenene

phenine

phidian

pinhead

pipidae

adapid 

anaphe 

anepia 

apidae 

apinae 

append 

daphne 

daphni 

dapped 

deepen 

depend 

dipped 

epidia 

happed 

happen 

heaped 

henpen 

heppen 

hipped 

hippen 

hippia 

hippie 

ipidae 

nanpie

napaea 

napead 

napped 

nappie 

neaped

nipped

padded

padina

paepae

pained

panada

panade

pandan

panini

panned

papain

papane

pappea

peahen

pediad

peened

peeped

peined

penaea

pended

peneid

penide

pennae

penned

pennia

pepped

peppin

phenin

phippe

piepan

pinene

pinnae

pinned

pipped

pippen

pippin

adapa 

adeep 

aheap 

apaid 

aphid 

apian

I truncated the list here.

Similar to the wordle solver I created previously, there are some words in the list that are not included in the dictionary of words that spelling bee uses, but hopefully this will help someone out there in the world if they get stuck.  The central letter and allcharacters variables need to be adjusted for each daily puzzle.

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