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Super interesting stuff. I am currently exploring a solution where I infer the word usage using the wikidictionary dump. Other solutions would be to make my own (or let user submitted a daily grid). I also want to try using some available word frequencies, but I need a solution that supports French, Spanish, German, etc.

wordfreq, if it's a thing you can use, definitely has information for French, Spanish, and German.  (If you don't use Python, the data files are available in MessagePack format at https://github.com/rspeer/wordfreq/tree/master/wordfreq/data, which ought to be readable in the programming language of your choice.)

I know Elia, who wrote wordfreq, used wiktionary dumps for other projects, and I know there's useful data in there (I think among other things she was filtering out offensive words?), but I don't know much about it.  Best of luck!

I've updated the game to only pick zipf_frequency >= 3.0 for the game to find, it feel way better!