Speed up a slow loop

[Richard Gaskin]

Jacque wrote:

 > so I'm not really looping through the keys, just looking for
 > a matching one. The loop is for each user word I need to find.
 > If there's no key, then the word isn't legal.

What is the ratio of keys whose values are "true" and those which are 
"false"?

And what is the ratio of writes to that array vs reads?

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