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HTML

<div>sortedWords_Array is: <span id="orig"></span></div>
<div>words_Array is: <span id="sorted"></span></div>

JavaScript

words_Array = ["Why", "doesnt", "this", "work?"];

var sortedWords_Array = words_Array.slice(0);

sortedWords_Array.sort(function(a, b){
    return b.length - a.length;
});

$('#orig').text(sortedWords_Array);
$('#sorted').text(words_Array);