(Credit:: New York Times) Wordle is an online game where you guess a word and it will tell you what letters are in the word. All of the words that you can guess have to be 5 letters (in the main version). Instead of making my own version of Wordle, I made a project with a use… To generate passwords.

Retrieving the words

To retrieve all of the possible words you can enter into Wordle, you have to find a list. A list is available here. I didn’t use that repo although it contains all of the words I did use.

Security… And convenience.

You may think a password like JgQ%67BR0ryJ (Generated from LastPass) is more secure than a password generated with Wordle words but surprisingly, That isn’t the case! This xkcd explains why. Not only is 4 words secure but it’s easy to remember. The four words: correct horse battery staple (used in the xkcd linked above) are extremely easy to remember. For fun, I took this idea and put it into my project.

Generating the password

To generate the password, you take the list of words, find 4 random ones and add a special character and a number (I just did the special character and a number part for fun. The choice of you keeping it is yours). Here is the code taken from the project:

// words contains the words and sc is short for special character:
$("#password").text( words[Math.floor(Math.random() * words.length)] + words[Math.floor(Math.random() * words.length)] + words[Math.floor(Math.random() * words.length)] + words[Math.floor(Math.random() * words.length)] + words[Math.floor(Math.random() * words.length)] + sc[Math.floor(Math.random() * sc.length)] + Math.floor(Math.random() * 99));

Copying to the clipboard

I thought a great feature to add to this was being able to copy stuff to the clipboard. There are better ways, but the way I used was this:

navigator.clipboard.writeText($("#password").text()).then(function() {

alert("Password copied to clipboard");

}, function(err) {

console.error(err);

});

To copy it takes one line:

navigator.clipboard.writeText($("#password").text())

The .then was used just to notify the user that it was added to the clipboard.

Contribution

If you would like to contribute to this project, the GitHub repo is here

Conclusion

This was a simple, but fun project. I will gladly take any suggestions on how to add more to this project (Post an issue on GitHub).