There is a version of Wordle for Irish called Foclach
Matt Parker has a youtube video working out how many five letter word combinations cover 25 of the 26 English letters.
This is an exact cover problem and has been studied for ages. And theres some great follow up videos to that one on how to make quick version of the checker.
There are 23 letters in Irish used by Foclach (this dataset). There are rare words with v (víosa (visa),veist (vest), veain (van)) and other English letters but they are not accepted in the game.
I took this code from azirale's matt parker answering version and changed the alphabet to Irish and looked for words that had all 23 alphabet out of 25 letters in 5 words. I got an Irish word list from here. There are only 6500 words in it. With 910 being 5 letters long.
There are loads of word combinations where all 23 letters are found in 5 5-letter words. Some examples are
beola-nádúr-putóg-séimh-fíoch
bheir-camán-folús-putóg-éindí
cónra-fostú-geábh-pluid-céimí
cúige-díobh-pluma-óstán-sféar
féile-putóg-rúnda-íomhá-bácús
fíoch-maide-putóg-slánú-bréan
fórsa-geábh-modúl-péint-curaí
geábh-modúl-próca-stuif-éindí
méadú-oibrí-putóg-sleán-fiuch
oíche-putóg-ráfla-sméid-bunús
I thnk this implies the Wordle in Irish is easier than in English at least for a computer.
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