[steventhedev]

brotli on the raw word list gives 17194 bytes. gzip gives 32352.

A lot can be done in 3014 bytes, but what's the difference in code size for the ascii trie vs. a flat list/gzip/brotli?

[quicktwo]

A trie representation physically removes letters from the dataset. Leaving it in ASCII means that it still leaves enough information behind that can be compressed well (a trie only exploits shared prefixes, not suffixes).