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		kibwen on April 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Understanding and avoiding visually ambiguous char... You'll want to be careful to consider homophones while also taking accents into account. E.g. if your dictionary contains "deary", it probably shouldn't also contain "dairy".

froddd on April 23, 2024 | [–]

Or “dreary”, or “dear”, or “deer”. Unfortunate choice for the example!

bckr on April 23, 2024 | | [–]

Our approach is to only use 5-character words.

bckr on April 23, 2024 | [–]

Great point!

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