You could replace the brackets { } by parenthesis ( ) and removing the return keyword.

wonderful explanations, thank you greatly!

just gave you a follow, if i have any dire questions down the line, i will be sure to reach out.

the === is used in JS to compare values and data types, because == does the type conversion before comparing (you can try to compare 2 and "2" with == and then with === and if i am not mistaken both of these will give you different answer

? : is a ternary operator, you can think of it as shorthand for if/else statement
? condition is true : condition is false
i recommend using ternary operator only with simple if/else statements and i do not recommend nesting ternary operator, i believe you can find some videos about use cases of ternary op. on YT

if you have more questions feel free to message me, i am happy to help

im having a hard time understanding the usage of ? and : and ===

any insight?

I actually agree with you. It is consider bad practice to use single character variable naming.

This is not an issue...
There is a bonus of 50 pts because word's length equals 7.

Why people upwote solution as best practice where you have single character variable naming?

thanks . good one

is there is something wrong with the word score deceive??? should be 91