Determine the difficulty of an english word

Question

I am working a word based game. My word database contains around 10,000 english words (sorted alphabetically). I am planning to have 5 difficulty levels in the game. Level 1

Answer 1

Word length is a good indicator , for word frequency , you would need data as an algorithm can obviously not determine it by itself. You could also use some sort of scoring like the scrabble game does : each letter has a value and the final value would be the sum of the values. It would be imo easier to find frequency data about each letter in your language .