Words from French that have been adopted into English are similarly frustrating for Wordle players. The wordmadamrecently caused some annoyance, as didfoyer.Foyercan be pronounced either [foi-er ] or [foi-ey ] in English, which doesn’t make it any easier to spell. In English, afoyeris ...
English also has an above-average amount of phonemes, or distinct sounds you can produce. The average number is roughly between 25 and 30, andEnglish has 44. English also has 11 vowel sounds (that you must then only spell using some combination of five vowel letters!), which is way more...