“It turns out that the result is 17763 bytes, plus 108 bytes of overhead, for a total of 17871 bytes, or 28% of the original list, with very, very simple decompression.”
A Baylor philosophy professor squeezed Wordle’s whole word list into a Game Boy cartridge with simple encoding. Plenty of web pages ship more JavaScript than that just to show a cookie banner. Constraints make programmers good. Unlimited RAM makes them lazy.