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Show HN: Heardle Is a Phonemic Wordle

by JoshMandel on 1/23/22, 3:39 PM with 4 comments

Snowy weekend project with my partner who studies speech production.

Five-phoneme words can be long or short orthographically, which keeps the gameplay interesting. We designed this to be playable for folks (like me) who don't know IPA, but this is also a great excuse to ping the linguist in your life.

Powering the interface is CMUdict, a great and openly licensed source of pronunciations (though it doesn't include all inflected forms, which leads to some gaps in the allowed word list).

  • by aterris on 1/23/22, 6:04 PM

    Cool! This is actually way over my head, but sent it to my wife (who studied linguistics) and she thinks its amazing.

    Been fun/interesting seeing so many of the wordle mixups popping up.

  • by transfire on 1/23/22, 4:41 PM

    I like it. But something is up with the dictionary. It said that “blank” and “blink” weren’t in the dictionary.