Wordle for Word Clouds or Tag Clouds: Tips!

There's a lot of word cloud generators, all inspired by "Wordle" -- the original and still the best, created by Jonathan Feinberg. Sadly it requires java to run it properly. If you do get it, here's some tips to get the best out of it:

• To control the size of words you can either repeat the words many times, or end every word with ":3" (or some other number) to indicate it's relative size.
• To treat a phrase with spaces as a single word, replace the spaces with ~ -- the tilde character.
• Common words like "Not" are hidden, by default. To show them, select Do not hide common words in the Language menu.

Naming is hard

The word "wordle", which was originally associated with word clouds, has now been entirely subsumed by its use for the daily word-guessing game "Wordle".

The error in this choice of name, is that although the game "Wordle" is entirely focused on words with 5 letters, Wordle has six letters.

Source

• wordle faq (now retrieved from archive.org...)