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Pass PHRASES are much better anyway.
Nobody's gonna remember "pyf85ruGmmgæ&Oy_w48euaT0lt" so they'll either write it down, save it to their browser,or use a password manager, either of which makes it less secure.
On the other hand, something simple that doesn't necessarily make sense, say "AlmondsMakeFineGrenades" is difficult for both humans and machines to guess, but easy to remember.
Tl;Dr: an xkcd comic explaining it much better than I just did 😁
Good, now hackers can prioritize English words in your passwords for bruteforce attacks!
Yeah, all hundreds of thousands of them. In combinations that don't make logical sense. Do you have any idea how long that would take?
Even if I limited myself to a 5 word pass phrase from a word list of 5000, there would be 25989619781251000 possible combinations.
Make that list the entirety of the English language and there's no way you'd be able to brute force it before the sun becomes a red giant, let alone during the lifespan of an unhealthy elder millennial 😄