# MidWord! The world's favorite word guessing game

<https://midword.com/>

- Host: [midword.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/midword.com/)
- Saved: June 12, 2025 (2025-06-13T02:01:43Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/41b063bee6f4/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/41b063bee6f4.json

## What Jamie wrote

Word guessing game that is much harder than I expected, and makes me want to do some quick analysis of the dictionary and what words are at various positions in the list. Unix to the rescue! `wc -l /usr/share/dict/words` tells me there are 235,976 words. Then `sed -n '117988p' /usr/share/dict/words` tells me the first word to start with is "mediation".

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT323: Weekly Thing 323 / Context, Dithering, Liquid Glass](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/323/), Notable

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## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://midword.com/