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Why do you start with Atone? Is there a calculation behind it?

ATONE has the 5 most used letters in English. And if there are no hits from ATONE, I'll use BUILD to check for the other vowels, U and I.

I prefer ALIEN -> TOURS

I believe I & L are more common than O & T in 5-letter words specifically

And R & S are definitely more common in 5-letter words than B & D

So this got me thinking, and I calculated the frequency of each letter in each 5 letter word in english.

I found a list of them here:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/charlesreid1/five-letter-words/master/sgb-words.txt

So I downloaded them and ran the following command to get the most frequent letters:

```

$ for char in {a..z}; do count=$(grep $char -o words.txt | wc -l); echo "$count - $char"; done | sort -hr

3033 - s

3009 - e

2348 - a

1915 - o

1910 - r

1592 - i

1586 - l

1585 - t

1285 - n

1181 - d

1089 - u

964 - c

955 - p

886 - y

843 - m

814 - h

715 - b

679 - g

596 - k

561 - f

505 - w

318 - v

139 - x

135 - z

89 - j

53 - q

```

perhaps AROSE -> UNTIL, then?

Yeah, that's what I was thinking of starting with now too.

Great! Thank you πŸ’–