Before Wordle there was Jotto
The popular word game Wordle is a modern version of a classic word game called Jotto that I learned decades ago and I've implemented in just about every new programming language that I've learned. Since I was implementing it so often I finally decided to make a Jotto word server that would present a random Jotto word. That way I didn't have to re-implement that portion of the game logic each time I wrote a new version of the game. The Jotto word server is running at this URL, and it has a very simple API. You can do two things: ask for a random Jotto word or query the server to see if a given words is a legal Jotto word.