Sedecordle answers for (#14)
The 16 answers to Sedecordle #14 for are: BLEED, FRITZ, WANED, CLANK, CURED, CLUMP, VAPID, RHINO, PRUDE, PASTY, FRANK, FISHY, GAZER, FLINT, GLEAM, LARGE.
All 16 answers with meanings
- BLEED – verb: To shed blood through an injured blood vessel.
- FRITZ – noun: The state of being defective.
- WANED – verb: simple past and past participle of wane
- CLANK – noun: A loud, hard sound of metal hitting metal.
- CURED – verb: simple past and past participle of cure
- CLUMP – noun: A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
- VAPID – adjective: Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging.
- RHINO – noun: Money.
- PRUDE – noun: A person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who is easily offended by matters of a sexual nature.
- PASTY – adjective: Like paste, sticky.
- FRANK – adjective: Honest, especially in a manner that seems slightly blunt; candid; not reserved or disguised.
- FISHY – adjective: Of, from, or similar to fish.
- GAZER – noun: One who gazes.
- FLINT – noun: A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny…
- GLEAM – noun: An appearance of light, especially one which is indistinct or small, or short-lived.
- LARGE – adjective: Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.
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
bVowels
2Word
bleedBoard 2
First letter
fVowels
1Word
fritzBoard 3
First letter
wVowels
2Word
wanedBoard 4
First letter
cVowels
1Word
clankBoard 5
First letter
cVowels
2Word
curedBoard 6
First letter
cVowels
1Word
clumpBoard 7
First letter
vVowels
2Word
vapidBoard 8
First letter
rVowels
2Word
rhinoBoard 9
First letter
pVowels
2Word
prudeBoard 10
First letter
pVowels
2Word
pastyBoard 11
First letter
fVowels
1Word
frankBoard 12
First letter
fVowels
2Word
fishyBoard 13
First letter
gVowels
2Word
gazerBoard 14
First letter
fVowels
1Word
flintBoard 15
First letter
gVowels
2Word
gleamBoard 16
First letter
lVowels
2Word
largeAbout today's words
- Words with a repeated letter: 1
- Most common letter: A (in 8 words)
- Most common first letter: F (4 words)
How puzzle #14 plays
Figures for this day's 16 words, measured against the 2,779 words that can be answers:
- Best first guess for these boards: LEARN (colored tiles on the first row: 33 of 80).
- Boards with a single possible word left after the suggested starting words AROSE, UNLIT, DUCHY, GIMPY: 14 of 16.
- Hardest board: #4 CLANK (possible words still left: 2).
- Look-alike traps, one letter away: CLANK (BLANK, CLACK, CLANG +5); PASTY (HASTY, NASTY, PARTY +4); FRANK (CRANK, DRANK, FLANK +3).
- Letters that appear in none of the 16 words: J Q X.
- Harder than 0% of the 13 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:
- SCONE
- KNACK
- TERSE
- PONCE
- HORSE
- COMMA
- PAPPY
- WOOZY
- FJORD
- WILLY
- GAILY
- REBUT
- STAIR
- STILT
- DIVAN
- SMOCK
Savior
Savior starts with four guesses already on the boards, and none of them is an answer. Starting words already played: HOPED, FLOUT, JERKY, CONGA
- WHITE
- PEAKY
- FINIS
- DOUBT
- OUTDO
- CLINK
- CIVIC
- HONKY
- TOUCH
- SHALL
- TEMPT
- SOGGY
- LIMEY
- AUGHT
- RIGOR
- THESE