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by ShakataGaNai 1018 days ago
I can understand overlooking homophones, but plurals was just stupid.

Someone came up with a clever idea, and clearly they had some math/cipher skills. But w3w clearly had no linguists on staff. Even Wordle did a better job filtering their word list.

Though with some of the words being so lengthy and linguistically complex, they would have been better moving to a four word system and assuring simpler words that was better filtered.