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definition of wordle
noun
A wordle takes all the words in a text and writes them in the form of a word cloud, using colours or different size letters to show how frequently words are used in that text
There was a really good example of a wordle in the paper yesterday
Submitted by: Jan from Netherlands on 17/02/2009 21:44:00
Definition of wordle from the Open Dictionary – a public resource hosted by Macmillan English Dictionary Online
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