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## Command form: npm run start en c???? has=a,r not=t,i unknown=?a???,??a??
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# en - supported languages: en|bg
# c???? - pattern + length, ? denoting unknown letter
# has=a,r - alphabet, known letters, unknown position
# not=t,i - letters that aren't in the word
# unknown=?a???,??a?? - known letters but not possible positions
npm run start c???? has=a,r not=t,i, unknown=?a???,??a??
# output:
Your input:
lang: en
pattern: c????
letters: a,r
ignore: t,i
Devised patterns:
concreteLetters: /c[a-z][a-z][a-z][a-z]/gim
randomPlaceLetters: /(?=.*a)(?=.*r).*/gim
ignoredLetters: /((?![t,i]).)*$/gim
### Scoring 1:
┌─────────┬─────────┬────┬────────┐
│ (index) │ 0 │ 1 │ 2 │
├─────────┼─────────┼────┼────────┤
│ 0 │ 'ceral' │ 31 │ 189.94 │
│ 1 │ 'clear' │ 31 │ 189.94 │
│ 2 │ 'ceras' │ 30 │ 191.19 │
│ 3 │ 'coran' │ 30 │ 175.51 │
│ 4 │ 'cread' │ 30 │ 179.21 │
│ 5 │ 'creak' │ 30 │ 167.57 │
│ 6 │ 'cream' │ 30 │ 177.32 │
│ 7 │ 'creda' │ 30 │ 179.21 │
│ 8 │ 'crena' │ 30 │ 195.88 │
│ 9 │ 'croak' │ 30 │ 147.2 │
│ 10 │ 'crosa' │ 30 │ 170.82 │
│ 11 │ 'copra' │ 29 │ 157.73 │
│ 12 │ 'corah' │ 29 │ 156.9 │
│ 13 │ 'coroa' │ 28 │ 178.1 │
│ 14 │ 'crcao' │ 28 │ 164.72 │
└─────────┴─────────┴────┴────────┘
### Scoring 2:
┌─────────┬─────────┬────┬────────┐
│ (index) │ 0 │ 1 │ 2 │
├─────────┼─────────┼────┼────────┤
│ 0 │ 'crena' │ 30 │ 195.88 │
│ 1 │ 'ceras' │ 30 │ 191.19 │
│ 2 │ 'ceral' │ 31 │ 189.94 │
│ 3 │ 'clear' │ 31 │ 189.94 │
│ 4 │ 'cread' │ 30 │ 179.21 │
│ 5 │ 'creda' │ 30 │ 179.21 │
│ 6 │ 'coroa' │ 28 │ 178.1 │
│ 7 │ 'cream' │ 30 │ 177.32 │
│ 8 │ 'coran' │ 30 │ 175.51 │
│ 9 │ 'crosa' │ 30 │ 170.82 │
│ 10 │ 'creak' │ 30 │ 167.57 │
│ 11 │ 'crcao' │ 28 │ 164.72 │
│ 12 │ 'crura' │ 23 │ 162.23 │
│ 13 │ 'copra' │ 29 │ 157.73 │
│ 14 │ 'corah' │ 29 │ 156.9 │
└─────────┴─────────┴────┴────────┘In the output you will get a sorted by highest score list of tuples [word, score, score].
Heuristics for English language are taken from here.
For Bulgarian I am doing a simple count of how many times a letter repeats in the words list + using this one frequency based on wikipedia articles.