Sedecordle answers for (#11)
The 16 answers to Sedecordle #11 for are: FLUTE, MINOR, MATED, FRAIL, MUSIC, BEAUT, LEVEL, DECOY, LEACH, TANGO, MIXES, SNAIL, GABBY, COUNT, CURLY, SEWER.
All 16 answers with meanings
- FLUTE – noun: A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge…
- MINOR – adjective: Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly:
- MATED – verb: simple past and past participle of mate
- FRAIL – adjective: Easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish.
- MUSIC – noun: A series of sounds organized in time, usually employing some combination of harmony, melody, rhythm, tempo, timbre, sound design,…
- BEAUT – noun: Something or someone that is physically attractive.
- LEVEL – adjective: The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
- DECOY – noun: A person or object meant to lure somebody into danger.
- LEACH – noun: A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
- TANGO – noun: A standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango.
- MIXES – noun: plural of mix
- SNAIL – noun: Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
- GABBY – adjective: Inclined to talk too much.
- COUNT – verb: To recite numbers in sequence.
- CURLY – adjective: Having curls.
- SEWER – noun: A pipe or channel, or system of pipes or channels, used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.
Meanings: English Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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
fVowels
2Word
fluteBoard 2
First letter
mVowels
2Word
minorBoard 3
First letter
mVowels
2Word
matedBoard 4
First letter
fVowels
2Word
frailBoard 5
First letter
mVowels
2Word
musicBoard 6
First letter
bVowels
3Word
beautBoard 7
First letter
lVowels
2Word
levelBoard 8
First letter
dVowels
3Word
decoyBoard 9
First letter
lVowels
2Word
leachBoard 10
First letter
tVowels
2Word
tangoBoard 11
First letter
mVowels
2Word
mixesBoard 12
First letter
sVowels
2Word
snailBoard 13
First letter
gVowels
2Word
gabbyBoard 14
First letter
cVowels
2Word
countBoard 15
First letter
cVowels
2Word
curlyBoard 16
First letter
sVowels
2Word
sewerAbout today's words
- Words with a repeated letter: 3
- Most common letter: E (in 8 words)
- Most common first letter: M (4 words)
How puzzle #11 plays
Figures for this day's 16 words, measured against the 2,779 words that can be answers:
- Best first guess for these boards: ALERT (colored tiles on the first row: 30 of 80).
- Boards with a single possible word left after the suggested starting words AROSE, UNLIT, DUCHY, GIMPY: 13 of 16.
- Hardest board: #7 LEVEL (possible words still left: 3).
- Look-alike traps, one letter away: LEACH (BEACH, LEASH, LEECH +3); LEVEL (BEVEL, LEVEE, LEVER +1); CURLY (BURLY, CURRY, CURVY +1).
- Letters that appear in none of the 16 words: J K P Q Z.
- Harder than 10% of the 10 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:
- FOUND
- MOODY
- LATCH
- LIMEY
- TAXES
- MADLY
- NOVEL
- ADIEU
- HIDER
- AREAL
- STEEL
- FLIRT
- GAUDY
- WACKO
- ISSUE
- SMITH
Savior
Savior starts with four guesses already on the boards, and none of them is an answer. Starting words already played: SITAR, SLURP, STALK, CLASP
- MUSTY
- CHINA
- SOFTY
- COULD
- SLUMP
- DROWN
- BINGE
- METED
- LLAMA
- MAYOR
- RINSE
- LAMER
- SAVOY
- RIVER
- CORGI
- CHOCK