sorens / beehive

🐝 Python command-line utility to help solve Spelling Bee™ puzzle

Beehive utility

This command-line utility helps generate the words for combination of letters or generate a list of pangram words

> ./beehive --help
usage: beehive [-h] [--letters LETTERS] [--center CENTER] [--debug]
               [--path PATH] [--level LEVEL] [--stdout] [--pangrams] --command
               COMMAND [--words WORDS]

beehive puzzle solver

optional arguments:
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit
  --letters LETTERS  non-center letters from beehive board
  --center CENTER    center letter from beehive board
  --debug            enable debug output
  --path PATH        location to output answers
  --level LEVEL      number of dictionary a matched word should appear in
  --stdout
  --pangrams         List all pangram words
  --command COMMAND  which command to run (e.g. play, pangrams)
  --words WORDS      directory of word files to use

Word lists

This application does not come with the word list files you need. You can find several different sources for words in the language of your choice.

Note: files should contain one word per line

Some possible lists to use:

• https://www.keithv.com/software/wlist/
• https://github.com/dwyl/english-words
• https://github.com/first20hours/google-10000-english
• http://www.gwicks.net/dictionaries.htm
• https://www.mit.edu/~ecprice/wordlist.10000
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eneko/data-repository/master/data/words.txt