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#LetterHack

##A stupid simple Letterpress word finder

Prints out the 5 longest words that are possible given the letters that appear in the Letterpress grid and words that appear in the wordlist.

$./letterhack.py YOURLISTOFLETTERS
Top 5 Words by length: 
storyteller
irresolutely
roisterously
stertorously
storytellers

When giving a shorter list, will also show works that use all those letters. This is useful for game enders.

$ ./letterhack.py SHRT
Top 5 Words by length: 
sh
Top 5 Words by that are supersets: 
harts
horst
hurst
hurts
ruths
shirt
short
tahrs
trash
airths

Finally, if you add a second param, the words that contain all those letters using the first argument as a superset are shown. This is useful for longer game-enders and to attack certain areas of the board.

$ ./letterhack.py YOURLISTOFLETTERS YFU
Top 5 Words by length: 
storyteller
irresolutely
roisterously
stertorously
storytellers
Top 5 preferred Words by length: 
stultify
yourself
restfully
tristfully
fruitlessly

Makes use of the public domain ENABLE word list. Letterpress may use a different word list.