Sedecordle Wordle

Sedecordle answers for (#17)

The 16 answers to Sedecordle #17 for are: CLAMP, BLOAT, GRUNT, BURST, FUGUE, DOGMA, GUNNY, SCRAP, HORSE, NERVY, SHALL, UTTER, IDLER, REDID, BOWEL, RONDO.

All 16 answers with meanings

  1. CLAMP – noun: A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things that are apart together.
  2. BLOAT – verb: To cause to become distended.
  3. GRUNT – noun: A short snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak.
  4. BURST – verb: To break from internal pressure.
  5. FUGUE – noun: A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the…
  6. DOGMA – noun: An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true and indisputable, regardless…
  7. GUNNY – noun: A coarse heavy fabric made of jute or hemp.
  8. SCRAP – noun: A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
  9. HORSE – noun: A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
  10. NERVY – adjective: Having nerve; bold; brazen.
  11. SHALL – verb: Used before a verb to indicate the simple future tense in the first person singular or plural.
  12. UTTER – adjective: To the furthest or most extreme extent; absolute, complete, total, unconditional.
  13. IDLER – noun: One who idles; one who spends their time in inaction.
  14. REDID – verb: simple past of redo
  15. BOWEL – noun: A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.
  16. RONDO – noun: A musical composition, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains.

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

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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 c
Vowels 1
Word clamp

Board 2

First letter b
Vowels 2
Word bloat

Board 3

First letter g
Vowels 1
Word grunt

Board 4

First letter b
Vowels 1
Word burst

Board 5

First letter f
Vowels 3
Word fugue

Board 6

First letter d
Vowels 2
Word dogma

Board 7

First letter g
Vowels 2
Word gunny

Board 8

First letter s
Vowels 1
Word scrap

Board 9

First letter h
Vowels 2
Word horse

Board 10

First letter n
Vowels 2
Word nervy

Board 11

First letter s
Vowels 1
Word shall

Board 12

First letter u
Vowels 2
Word utter

Board 13

First letter i
Vowels 2
Word idler

Board 14

First letter r
Vowels 2
Word redid

Board 15

First letter b
Vowels 2
Word bowel

Board 16

First letter r
Vowels 2
Word rondo

About today's words

  • Words with a repeated letter: 6
  • Most common letter: R (in 9 words)
  • Most common first letter: B (3 words)

How puzzle #17 plays

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

  • Best first guess for these boards: AROSE (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: 12 of 16.
  • Hardest board: #15 BOWEL (possible words still left: 3).
  • Look-alike traps, one letter away: SHALL (SHALE, SHALT, SHAWL +4); CLAMP (CHAMP, CLASP, CLOMP +2); GUNNY (BUNNY, FUNNY, RUNNY +2).
  • Letters that appear in none of the 16 words: J K Q X Z.
  • Harder than 38% of the 16 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. WRYLY
  2. LOONY
  3. GUSSY
  4. RAZOR
  5. BILGE
  6. PENNY
  7. POUCH
  8. FORAY
  9. PRONG
  10. SPACE
  11. HONED
  12. YOUTH
  13. BEGOT
  14. ARGUE
  15. SLINK
  16. LIVED

Savior

Savior starts with four guesses already on the boards, and none of them is an answer. Starting words already played: SNAIL, VENAL, NOBLY, THING

  1. SMIRK
  2. CHOKE
  3. BUSBY
  4. BURKA
  5. THROB
  6. SNAKE
  7. RESET
  8. RIGHT
  9. USURP
  10. TRIAL
  11. FORGO
  12. STAGE
  13. VAPID
  14. TELEX
  15. CIDER
  16. WRUNG

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