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
- WILLY – adjective: Willing; favourable; ready; eager.
- SPARK – noun: A small particle of glowing matter, either molten or on fire, resulting from an electrical surge or excessive heat created by friction.
- BUTCH – adjective: Very masculine, with a masculine appearance or attitude.
- CHORE – noun: A task, especially a regularly needed task for the upkeep of a home or similar, such as housecleaning or preparing meals.
- CHUMP – noun: An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.
- GUILD – noun: A group or association mainly of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans, particularly in the Middle Ages,…
- BROOM – noun: A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
- MACED – verb: simple past and past participle of mace
- DRIER – adjective: comparative form of dry: more dry
- TRUST – noun: Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
- 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…
- 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…
- JOUST – noun: A tilting match: a mock combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances in the lists or enclosed field.
- 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,…
- DOZED – verb: simple past and past participle of doze
- 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.
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
wVowels
2Word
willyBoard 2
First letter
sVowels
1Word
sparkBoard 3
First letter
bVowels
1Word
butchBoard 4
First letter
cVowels
2Word
choreBoard 5
First letter
cVowels
1Word
chumpBoard 6
First letter
gVowels
2Word
guildBoard 7
First letter
bVowels
2Word
broomBoard 8
First letter
mVowels
2Word
macedBoard 9
First letter
dVowels
2Word
drierBoard 10
First letter
tVowels
1Word
trustBoard 11
First letter
aVowels
2Word
adoptBoard 12
First letter
pVowels
1Word
porchBoard 13
First letter
jVowels
2Word
joustBoard 14
First letter
fVowels
2Word
fluidBoard 15
First letter
dVowels
2Word
dozedBoard 16
First letter
bVowels
2Word
burroAbout 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:
- STORK
- CLASS
- FOSSA
- TALON
- HOOCH
- CHINA
- TOPAZ
- GRAPH
- FORGE
- SNAKE
- HYPER
- SLIME
- CLANK
- RAPID
- PAGAN
- 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
- LUPUS
- GAILY
- HUTCH
- SMOKY
- PUTTY
- SAVVY
- BEGUM
- FIXED
- GUESS
- SWUNG
- AIDED
- RABBI
- BOAST
- PRISM
- RIDGE
- BANAL