More Words From Hex Letters (with extra zero's)

STOP PRESS! Someone commented that zeros could be used as ones so an update is at the bottom.

It was pointed out to me that I needn't restrict myself to four character words, and could use the number '1' as letter 'l', and the number '5' as the letter 'S'.

So here is the program and output of words of four or more characters that can be made from hexadecimal characters.

import urllib

words = urllib.urlopen('http://www.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt'
                  ).read().split()
#len(words) == 25104

def findwords(hexchars):
hexchars = set(hexchars)
hexwords = [w for w in words if 4 <= len(w) and all(ch in hexchars for ch in w)]
return hexwords

def printwords(hexwords):
for i in range(0, len(hexwords), 5):
   print ('  ' + ' '.join("%-8s" % w for w in hexwords[i:i+5]))

hexchars = 'abcdef'
#hexwords = findwords(hexchars)
#print "\nHEXWORDS"
#printwords(hexwords)

# Now to use one: 1 as ell: l; and five: 5 as ess: s
hexwords = findwords(hexchars + 'ls')
hexwords = [word.replace('s','5').replace('l','1') for word in hexwords]
print "\nHEXWORDS USING one: 1 AS ell: l; AND five: 5 AS ess: s"
printwords(hexwords)

The list of words found have some gems, such as babble, for when you know your generating data that no one will read; baffle, baseball, blab, bleed, bless, (and blessed if it were in the dictionary), cabal, cascade, cease, debacle, decade, decease, (and should have deceased), false, flee, label, ...

(Someone at work suggested we use 1abe1 or label to prefix a section of writes to a peripheral in an assembler prog which got me going).

The words:

HEXWORDS USING one: 1 AS ell: l; AND five: 5 AS ess: s
aaa5     ababa    aba5e    abba5    abbe
abed     abe1     ab1e     ab5ce55  accede
acce55   added    add1e    ade1e    affab1e
a1ba     a1ec     a1fa1fa  a11e1e   a55e55
babb1e   babe     babe1    bade     baff1e
ba1d     ba1e     ba11     ba11ad   ba11ed
ba15a    ba5a1    ba5e     ba5eba11 ba5e1
ba55     bead     bead1e   beebe    beef
befa11   befe11   be1a     be11     be11a
be11e    be55     be55e1   b1ab     b1ade
b1ed     b1eed    b1e55    caba1    cab1e
cafe     ca1eb    ca1f     ca11     ca11a
ca5cade  ca5e     cea5e    cede     ce1ebe5
ce11     c1ad     c1a55    dabb1e   dacca
dada     dade     da1e     da11a5   dead
deaf     dea1     debac1e  deba5e   decade
deca1    decca    decea5e  deed     deface
de11     de11a    ea5e     ea5e1    ecc1e5
efface   effaceab1e e1ba     e11a     e15e
fab1e    facade   face     fade     fa11
fa15e    feeb1e   feed     fee1     fe11
f1ea     f1ed     f1ee     f1eece   1abe1
1ace     1ad1e    1a5e     1a55     1ead
1eaf     1ea5e    1eed5    1e55     1e55ee
5ab1e    5accade  5add1e   5afe     5a1ad
5a1e     5a11e    5cab     5ca1a    5ca1d
5ca1e    5ea1     5ecede   5eeab1e  5eed
5eedbed  5e1f     5e11     51ab     51ed

Additional Words with an 'o'

Without Michaels comment I would have skipped all words that use zero for an o, so I made the following two changes:

hexwords = findwords(hexchars + 'lso')
hexwords = [word.replace('s','5').replace('l','1').replace('o', '0') for word in hexwords]

And created the following extra words:

  ab0de    acc01ade ad0be    a1c0a    a110cab1e
a10e     a100f    a150     ba1b0a   ba550 
b10b     b10c     b100d    b0bb1e   b0ca  
b0de     b01d     b01dface b01e     b010  
b05e     b055     caca0    c10d     c105e 
c0a1     c0a1e5ce c0bb     c0bb1e   c0b01 
c0ca     c0c0     c0c0a    c0da     c0dd1e
c0de     c0ed     c0ffee   c01a     c01d  
c01e     c01055a1 c001     c05ec    dec0de
d0bb5    d0dd     d0d0     d0ff     d01ce 
d01e     d011     d00d1e   d05e     ec01e 
ee0c     fa110ff  f10c     f10e     f100d 
f0a1     f0ca1    f01d     f00d     f001  
f055     1a05     1a550    10ad     10af  
10be     10b0     10ca1    10ca1e   10eb  
10e55    101a     1011     1005e    1005e1eaf
105ab1e  105e     1055     0a5e5    0be5e 
0b0e     0b5e55   0de55a   0ffa1    0ff10ad
0ff5add1e 01af     00d1e5   0510     5caff01d
5c0ff    5c01d    5eaf00d  510b     510e  
50da     50fa     501ace   501d     501e  
5010