tricky-wordle.js

// assumes that wordList is a string containing the latest Wordle word list, which can be found at https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dracos/dd0668f281e685bad51479e5acaadb93/raw/valid-wordle-words.txt
// if running in the console of that page, uncomment the following line
// const wordList = document.body.textContent;

const words = wordList.split("\n");
const scores = {};

words.forEach(word => {
  if(word.length !== 5){
    return;// sanity check
  }
  
  for(var i = 0;i < 5;i++){
    const masked = word.split("");
    masked[i] = "#";
    const joined = masked.join("");
    
    if(scores[joined]){
      scores[joined]++;
    }else{
      scores[joined] = 1;
    }
  }
});

const scoreList = [];
Object.keys(scores).forEach(mask => {
  scoreList.push({
    mask: mask,
    score: scores[mask]
  });
});

const sorted = scoreList.sort((a, b) => b.score - a.score);