Sedecordle Wordle

Sedecordle answers for (#8)

The 16 answers to Sedecordle #8 for are: NASTY, WACKO, CROUP, FERAL, PLANE, WADED, BREAK, PECAN, SHEEN, SCALD, PASTE, CANON, LEASE, BASSO, IRATE, FARAD.

All 16 answers with meanings

  1. NASTY – adjective: Dirty, filthy.
  2. WACKO – adjective: Amusingly eccentric or irrational.
  3. CROUP – noun: The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped.
  4. FERAL – adjective: Wild; untamed.
  5. PLANE – adjective: Of a surface: flat or level.
  6. WADED – verb: simple past and past participle of wade
  7. BREAK – verb: To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
  8. PECAN – noun: A deciduous tree, Carya illinoinensis, of the central and southern United States, having deeply furrowed bark, pinnately compound…
  9. SHEEN – adjective: Beautiful, good-looking, attractive, fair; bright, radiant; shiny.
  10. SCALD – verb: To burn with hot liquid.
  11. PASTE – noun: A soft moist mixture, in particular: One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry. Pastry. One of pounded foods, such…
  12. CANON – noun: A generally accepted principle; a rule.
  13. LEASE – noun: An interest in land granting exclusive use or occupation of real estate for a limited period; a leasehold.
  14. BASSO – noun: A bass singer, especially in opera.
  15. IRATE – adjective: Extremely angry; wrathful; enraged.
  16. FARAD – noun: In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical capacitance; the capacitance of a capacitor in which one coulomb of…

Meanings: English Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Play today's Sedecordle

Hints if you're still playing

Each board has three hints. Open the first letter for a small nudge, the number of vowels for a bigger one, and the full word only when you're ready.

Board 1

First letter n
Vowels 2
Word nasty

Board 2

First letter w
Vowels 2
Word wacko

Board 3

First letter c
Vowels 2
Word croup

Board 4

First letter f
Vowels 2
Word feral

Board 5

First letter p
Vowels 2
Word plane

Board 6

First letter w
Vowels 2
Word waded

Board 7

First letter b
Vowels 2
Word break

Board 8

First letter p
Vowels 2
Word pecan

Board 9

First letter s
Vowels 2
Word sheen

Board 10

First letter s
Vowels 1
Word scald

Board 11

First letter p
Vowels 2
Word paste

Board 12

First letter c
Vowels 2
Word canon

Board 13

First letter l
Vowels 3
Word lease

Board 14

First letter b
Vowels 2
Word basso

Board 15

First letter i
Vowels 3
Word irate

Board 16

First letter f
Vowels 2
Word farad

About today's words

  • Words with a repeated letter: 6
  • Most common letter: A (in 14 words)
  • Most common first letter: P (3 words)

How puzzle #8 plays

Figures for this day's 16 words, measured against the 2,779 words that can be answers:

  • Best first guess for these boards: SNARE (colored tiles on the first row: 39 of 80).
  • Boards with a single possible word left after the suggested starting words AROSE, UNLIT, DUCHY, GIMPY: 8 of 16.
  • Hardest board: #2 WACKO (possible words still left: 4).
  • Look-alike traps, one letter away: PASTE (BASTE, CASTE, HASTE +5); BREAK (BLEAK, BREAD, BREAM +3); LEASE (CEASE, LEASH, LEAST +2).
  • Letters that appear in none of the 16 words: G J M Q V X Z.
  • Harder than 100% of the 7 earlier puzzles, judged by the words left after the starting guesses.

Sedec-order

The same day in Sedec-order, where the boards open one at a time, has its own sixteen words:

  1. DREAD
  2. ZESTY
  3. RIGID
  4. GAVEL
  5. CHOMP
  6. NONCE
  7. WITTY
  8. JUMBO
  9. CHIDE
  10. PRIVY
  11. MECCA
  12. MIRED
  13. SYNOD
  14. NAKED
  15. TRESS
  16. SENSE

Savior

Savior starts with four guesses already on the boards, and none of them is an answer. Starting words already played: CANDY, ANIME, WISER, MATCH

  1. STRUT
  2. DRIFT
  3. BLOND
  4. LAUGH
  5. DELAY
  6. PURGE
  7. CHURN
  8. ALBUM
  9. SMASH
  10. HYPED
  11. STRIP
  12. UDDER
  13. FABLE
  14. FRANC
  15. FRAME
  16. PASTA

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