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our mission is to maintain a wordlist compiled in a data-driven way from freely available resources that new crossword puzzle constructors can use out-of-the-box for creating clean grids accessible to a variety of solvers

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117,830 out of 310,071 answers scored 50 since our last update on january 1, 2026

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