Thank you Jules! Good suggestion on an added library -- I also need to look into if I can hook into some existing dictionary somewhere so it has a "real" archive of words.
It's funny -- I've never actually played Wordle -- but my mother (a huge Scrabble fan) loves it, and my goal for the jam was to make a game mechanic my mom would like/would play -- so the core gameplay structure is based on the early 2000s PopCap Games title "Bookworm Adventure" -- which is basically like Boggle with a linear RPG turn-based combat loop.
Lots of legs in the concept I think, and different ways it could be taken -- try a remix some time if you like!