* Doesn't include useful but rare short words, such as el
* Does include obscure or slang words such as stere and jones
* But doesn't include their conjugations. I lost due to making steres without checking to see if the game knows the plural (it doesn't).
I'd like to add a button to the dictionary to report words that should be included. For now, we erred on the side of a smaller dictionary since it's less jarring to add words than remove them :)
(stere / steres is especially regrettable, sorry!)
Obtaining a good word list is hard, I have one saved which is a merging and editing of several freely available ones, including one used in Scrabble competitions and one from some Linux distro, and a few "basic word lists". There will be endless errors like missing plurals and past tenses, as well as the inclusion of things like acronyms that shouldn't be in there at all. And if you prune obscure words but allow the submission of missing words, I guess you'd better keep the list of pruned words around so you can head people off at the pass by pre-filtering their submissions.
We have done some manual massaging beyond that, but not much. Waiting for more feedback like this! You can see the current tranches of dictionary massaging here: https://github.com/TruncateGame/Truncate/tree/main/dict_buil...
One thing that might help would be for the winning word, and all the other words involved, to be shown somewhere upon a battle's resolution, along with their definition (or lack thereof).
Incidentally, some buttons don't work for me. This [i] button won't toggle back to off, and the buttons in the "edit board" function mostly don't work - including "stop editing board".