Most word games just ignore accents.
"ELEVE" should be accepted in lieu of "ÉLÈVE" (student/pupil) and "ÉLEVÉ" (high/elevated).
Linking the words written to their entries in an online dictionary can be slightly tricky because of that.
But the letter distribution really is different. Especially for H, K, W and Y.
That's 4 letters that would really become annoying at their current costs and benefits.
There are also letters that are much more likely to be next to one another in one or the other language which can be significant for this game.
You also have to decide what kind of words are acceptable.
Some word games accepts all conjugated forms of the verbs but many don't.
I would limit verbs to the infinitive and past participle (with also the plural and female forms of the past participle if the verb is transitive)
Here is a quick rundown of letters occurrence.
I computed this by using the 12dicts (3outof6game) for English and one version of the gutenberg list for French.
I kept only words between 5 and 12 letters.
Note that the French list does include conjugated verbs which has a significant impact on some letters (most notably, it increases the occurrence of "z")
The game owner is unlikely to appreciate a poor port to French.
"ELEVE" should be accepted in lieu of "ÉLÈVE" (student/pupil) and "ÉLEVÉ" (high/elevated).
Linking the words written to their entries in an online dictionary can be slightly tricky because of that.
But the letter distribution really is different. Especially for H, K, W and Y.
That's 4 letters that would really become annoying at their current costs and benefits.
There are also letters that are much more likely to be next to one another in one or the other language which can be significant for this game.
You also have to decide what kind of words are acceptable.
Some word games accepts all conjugated forms of the verbs but many don't.
I would limit verbs to the infinitive and past participle (with also the plural and female forms of the past participle if the verb is transitive)
Here is a quick rundown of letters occurrence.
I computed this by using the 12dicts (3outof6game) for English and one version of the gutenberg list for French.
I kept only words between 5 and 12 letters.
Note that the French list does include conjugated verbs which has a significant impact on some letters (most notably, it increases the occurrence of "z")
The game owner is unlikely to appreciate a poor port to French.
