[Blog Post] A Universal Template

[Koen G]

This is a tricky question though. Imagine we'd define valid words in English in the same way. What you'd basically be saying is "as long as the rules of phonotactics are followed, it's fine." Basically fill out the vocabulary with all possible combinations of letters the language allows. 

Now Voynichese isn't a language like English, so the term phonotactics may not even be relevant. But still, if you were to count everything that could potentially be formed according to existing bi/trigrams, you're also assuming that there was no good reason why those words were not included in the first place. You'd be saying "they might as well have been there".