Sedecordle answers for (#22)
The 16 answers to Sedecordle #22 for are: SATYR, EXACT, KNEAD, MOLDY, ENSUE, CADET, HEFTY, CANAL, MANGY, FIRST, RUPEE, ROWER, DEALT, BLOOP, SALSA, GORGE.
All 16 answers with meanings
- SATYR – noun: A sylvan deity or demigod, male companion of Pan or Dionysus, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous…
- EXACT – adjective: Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.
- KNEAD – verb: To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed…
- MOLDY – adjective: Covered with mold.
- ENSUE – verb: To follow (a leader, inclination etc.).
- CADET – noun: A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
- HEFTY – adjective: With heft; heavy, strong, vigorous, mighty, impressive
- CANAL – noun: An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
- MANGY – adjective: Afflicted, or looking as if afflicted, with mange.
- FIRST – adjective: Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
- RUPEE – noun: Any of the monetary currencies used in modern India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, the Seychelles, or Sri Lanka.
- ROWER – noun: One who rows.
- DEALT – verb: simple past and past participle of deal
- BLOOP – verb: To blow air bubbles or audibly slosh about in water.
- SALSA – noun: A spicy tomato sauce of Mexican origin, often including onions and hot peppers.
- GORGE – noun: The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.
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
sVowels
2Word
satyrBoard 2
First letter
eVowels
2Word
exactBoard 3
First letter
kVowels
2Word
kneadBoard 4
First letter
mVowels
2Word
moldyBoard 5
First letter
eVowels
3Word
ensueBoard 6
First letter
cVowels
2Word
cadetBoard 7
First letter
hVowels
2Word
heftyBoard 8
First letter
cVowels
2Word
canalBoard 9
First letter
mVowels
2Word
mangyBoard 10
First letter
fVowels
1Word
firstBoard 11
First letter
rVowels
3Word
rupeeBoard 12
First letter
rVowels
2Word
rowerBoard 13
First letter
dVowels
2Word
dealtBoard 14
First letter
bVowels
2Word
bloopBoard 15
First letter
sVowels
2Word
salsaBoard 16
First letter
gVowels
2Word
gorgeAbout today's words
- Words with a repeated letter: 7
- Most common letter: E (in 9 words)
- Most common first letter: C (2 words)
How puzzle #22 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: 33 of 80).
- Boards with a single possible word left after the suggested starting words AROSE, UNLIT, DUCHY, GIMPY: 12 of 16.
- Hardest board: #12 ROWER (possible words still left: 7).
- Look-alike traps, one letter away: ROWER (BOWER, COWER, DOWER +8); MANGY (MANGA, MANGE, MANGO +3); BLOOP (BLOOD, BLOOM, SLOOP).
- Letters that appear in none of the 16 words: J Q V Z.
- Harder than 71% of the 21 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:
- BLAZE
- BLISS
- SINEW
- SUNNY
- NASAL
- TRAMP
- VIOLA
- MUMMY
- KNOLL
- WRUNG
- SPELL
- REACH
- NOHOW
- BOWEL
- BINGO
- UNLIT
Savior
Savior starts with four guesses already on the boards, and none of them is an answer. Starting words already played: MOLAR, PRION, SHINY, RITZY
- PARKA
- STINT
- TIPSY
- FLAIL
- OUTTA
- TRAIT
- SITED
- GIDDY
- AWAIT
- BOXED
- POISE
- AGAIN
- PRANG
- WRIST
- BESET
- WAIST