Cooperative Zendo

[Unbitwise]

DanielH: No to all.

'bet' has less than four letters.
Don't worry about justifying the Englishness of your words.

[DanielH]

I have no idea; just trying to try different sets of similar words hoping for more data.

offs
offer
office
often
soften
softener
softens
softening
softer
softest

[Unbitwise]

Yes to 'softener'.

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Yes:
aces
bees
bookkeeper
boon
boor
bore
colour
dice
eaters
keep
keeper
orange
sear
seen
seer
softener
tans
unseen

No:
aced
antidisestablishmentarianism
ants
aunt
aunts
beeswax
bell
belling
bells
biscuit
book
books
bulwark
colonise
colonize
color
cookie
defence
defense
easter
feet
gear
geek
gray
green
grey
groom
iced
keepers
keeps
listen
magnificent
offer
office
offs
often
parallelled
parallellogram
peach
pee
peek
peeker
peekers
peeks
peep
picturesque
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
secret
secrete
secretkeeper
silent
snot
soften
softening
softens
softer
softest
speech
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
transmogrification
which
wildebeest
witch
witches
witching

[Unbitwise]

(I'm assuming the quiet is due to time of day and not everyone-is-stumped-and-needs-a-hint. If I'm wrong, let me know.)

[DanielH]

I am having trouble coming up with even things that all the Yesses share even if some Nos also have that feature, or vice versa.

abbey
abbr (a nice autonym)
beef
beep

sixtythree

alicorn
unbitwise
lambda
forum
zendo

[Unbitwise]

Yes: 'beep'

I reject 'sixtythree', 'abbr' and 'zendo' on not-an-English-word grounds. I'll accept 'unbitwise' because it's made of actual affixes (it does not meet the rule).

I have a suitable hint. I will provide it when two players have asked for it.

[DanielH]

I’ll give it another day before I ask, in case I figure something out in the meantime, but I am planning to ask in a day.

I only chose abbr because it was in my /usr/share/dict/words; I was grepping it for words that fit some of my hypotheses. It’s an abbreviation for abbreviation, hence my comment on autonym. I chose sixtythree because kuuskytkolme is clearly not English. I admit that both of those are ambiguous.

I think I reject your rejection of zendo. The Wikipedia page doesn’t even mention if it comes from another language, and even if it does it’s at least a loanword. It’s more of an English word than “lambda” is.

In any case:
dictionary
sixty
three

bleep
keen
seek
eeks
keel
kneel
knees

[Lambda]

oranges
range
ranges
ranged
ranked

unseemly
umpteen
canteen
unseal
scene

[Unbitwise]

Yes to: dictionary keen knee ranges

"abbr" is an abbreviation which is correctly spelled and therefore a reasonable thing to put in a spelling dictionary, but not itself "a word". "zendo" is a proper noun, not a loanword. No?

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Yes:
aces
beep
bees
bookkeeper
boon
boor
bore
colour
dice
dictionary
eaters
keen
keep
keeper
knee
orange
ranges
sear
seen
seer
softener
tans
unseen

No:
abbey
aced
alicorn
antidisestablishmentarianism
ants
aunt
aunts
beef
beeswax
bell
belling
bells
biscuit
bleep
book
books
bulwark
canteen
colonise
colonize
color
cookie
defence
defense
easter
eeks
feet
forum
gear
geek
gray
green
grey
groom
iced
keel
keepers
keeps
kneel
lambda
listen
magnificent
offer
office
offs
often
oranges
parallelled
parallellogram
peach
pee
peek
peeker
peekers
peeks
peep
picturesque
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
range
ranged
ranked
scene
secret
secrete
secretkeeper
seek
silent
sixty
snot
soften
softening
softens
softer
softest
speech
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
three
transmogrification
umpteen
unbitwise
unseal
unseemly
which
wildebeest
witch
witches
witching

[Kappa]

void
bars
paltry
taps
soar
acorn
soft