Sedecordle answers for (#13)

The 16 answers to Sedecordle #13 for are: WILLY, SPARK, BUTCH, CHORE, CHUMP, GUILD, BROOM, MACED, DRIER, TRUST, ADOPT, PORCH, JOUST, FLUID, DOZED, BURRO.

All 16 answers with meanings

  1. WILLY – adjective: Willing; favourable; ready; eager.
  2. SPARK – noun: A small particle of glowing matter, either molten or on fire, resulting from an electrical surge or excessive heat created by friction.
  3. BUTCH – adjective: Very masculine, with a masculine appearance or attitude.
  4. CHORE – noun: A task, especially a regularly needed task for the upkeep of a home or similar, such as housecleaning or preparing meals.
  5. CHUMP – noun: An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.
  6. GUILD – noun: A group or association mainly of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans, particularly in the Middle Ages,…
  7. BROOM – noun: A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
  8. MACED – verb: simple past and past participle of mace
  9. DRIER – adjective: comparative form of dry: more dry
  10. TRUST – noun: Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
  11. ADOPT – verb: To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship. To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in…
  12. PORCH – noun: A covered entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting…
  13. JOUST – noun: A tilting match: a mock combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances in the lists or enclosed field.
  14. FLUID – noun: Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid,…
  15. DOZED – verb: simple past and past participle of doze
  16. BURRO – noun: A small donkey, especially when used as a pack animal or one that is feral and lives in the southwestern United States or northern Mexico.

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 w
Vowels 2
Word willy

Board 2

First letter s
Vowels 1
Word spark

Board 3

First letter b
Vowels 1
Word butch

Board 4

First letter c
Vowels 2
Word chore

Board 5

First letter c
Vowels 1
Word chump

Board 6

First letter g
Vowels 2
Word guild

Board 7

First letter b
Vowels 2
Word broom

Board 8

First letter m
Vowels 2
Word maced

Board 9

First letter d
Vowels 2
Word drier

Board 10

First letter t
Vowels 1
Word trust

Board 11

First letter a
Vowels 2
Word adopt

Board 12

First letter p
Vowels 1
Word porch

Board 13

First letter j
Vowels 2
Word joust

Board 14

First letter f
Vowels 2
Word fluid

Board 15

First letter d
Vowels 2
Word dozed

Board 16

First letter b
Vowels 2
Word burro

About today's words

  • Words with a repeated letter: 6
  • Most common letter: O (in 7 words)
  • Most common first letter: B (3 words)

How puzzle #13 plays

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

  • Best first guess for these boards: ADORE (colored tiles on the first row: 27 of 80).
  • Boards with a single possible word left after the suggested starting words AROSE, UNLIT, DUCHY, GIMPY: 13 of 16.
  • Hardest board: #1 WILLY (possible words still left: 3).
  • Look-alike traps, one letter away: WILLY (BILLY, DILLY, FILLY +4); SPARK (SHARK, SNARK, SPANK +2); BUTCH (BATCH, BOTCH, BUNCH +2).
  • Letters that appear in none of the 16 words: N Q V X.
  • Harder than 33% of the 12 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. STORK
  2. CLASS
  3. FOSSA
  4. TALON
  5. HOOCH
  6. CHINA
  7. TOPAZ
  8. GRAPH
  9. FORGE
  10. SNAKE
  11. HYPER
  12. SLIME
  13. CLANK
  14. RAPID
  15. PAGAN
  16. WRATH

Savior

Savior starts with four guesses already on the boards, and none of them is an answer. Starting words already played: LARCH, LONER, EXACT, WISED

  1. LUPUS
  2. GAILY
  3. HUTCH
  4. SMOKY
  5. PUTTY
  6. SAVVY
  7. BEGUM
  8. FIXED
  9. GUESS
  10. SWUNG
  11. AIDED
  12. RABBI
  13. BOAST
  14. PRISM
  15. RIDGE
  16. BANAL

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