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by schappim 1611 days ago
I did the same. My source of words was the Unix dictionary found in macOS. The path is:

  /usr/share/dict/words
When I did the frequency analysis, I scoped it to only 5 letter words.

If you're looking for a great "first guess word", "trace" is one of the words that will yield the most clues.