diff --git a/developer/js/tests/fixtures/example.qaa.utf16be/model.ts b/developer/js/tests/fixtures/example.qaa.utf16be/model.ts
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@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+const source: LexicalModelSource = {
+  format: 'trie-1.0',
+  sources: ['wordlist.txt'],
+};
+export default source;
diff --git a/developer/js/tests/fixtures/example.qaa.utf16be/wordlist.txt b/developer/js/tests/fixtures/example.qaa.utf16be/wordlist.txt
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diff --git a/developer/js/tests/test-parse-wordlist.ts b/developer/js/tests/test-parse-wordlist.ts
index fdda995417..caa90f209b 100644
--- a/developer/js/tests/test-parse-wordlist.ts
+++ b/developer/js/tests/test-parse-wordlist.ts
@@ -26,5 +26,12 @@ describe('parseWordList', function () {
     let wordlist = parseWordListFromFilename(filename);
     assert.lengthOf(wordlist, 10);
   });
+
+  it('should read wordlists in UTF-16 LE (with BOM)', function () {
+    // N.B.: this format... might be output by MS Excel? Maybe?
+    const filename = makePathToFixture('example.qaa.utf16be', 'wordlist.txt');
+    let wordlist = parseWordListFromFilename(filename);
+    assert.lengthOf(wordlist, 10);
+  });
 });