Twilight

Brand new here, so hello, and now onto why I'm here:

For a Comp-Sci class, we have to design a hash table and function to sort 10,000+ English Words into an array, with 9,000-16,000 elements in the Hash Table, using chaining to handle collisions.

But coming up with a good Hash Function is proving rather difficult. Right now I can get a load factor of about .71, but the higher that number goes, the more marks I get, so all suggestions are appreciated