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

  1. SATYR – noun: A sylvan deity or demigod, male companion of Pan or Dionysus, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous…
  2. EXACT – adjective: Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.
  3. 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…
  4. MOLDY – adjective: Covered with mold.
  5. ENSUE – verb: To follow (a leader, inclination etc.).
  6. CADET – noun: A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
  7. HEFTY – adjective: With heft; heavy, strong, vigorous, mighty, impressive
  8. CANAL – noun: An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
  9. MANGY – adjective: Afflicted, or looking as if afflicted, with mange.
  10. FIRST – adjective: Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
  11. RUPEE – noun: Any of the monetary currencies used in modern India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, the Seychelles, or Sri Lanka.
  12. ROWER – noun: One who rows.
  13. DEALT – verb: simple past and past participle of deal
  14. BLOOP – verb: To blow air bubbles or audibly slosh about in water.
  15. SALSA – noun: A spicy tomato sauce of Mexican origin, often including onions and hot peppers.
  16. GORGE – noun: The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.

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 s
Vowels 2
Word satyr

Board 2

First letter e
Vowels 2
Word exact

Board 3

First letter k
Vowels 2
Word knead

Board 4

First letter m
Vowels 2
Word moldy

Board 5

First letter e
Vowels 3
Word ensue

Board 6

First letter c
Vowels 2
Word cadet

Board 7

First letter h
Vowels 2
Word hefty

Board 8

First letter c
Vowels 2
Word canal

Board 9

First letter m
Vowels 2
Word mangy

Board 10

First letter f
Vowels 1
Word first

Board 11

First letter r
Vowels 3
Word rupee

Board 12

First letter r
Vowels 2
Word rower

Board 13

First letter d
Vowels 2
Word dealt

Board 14

First letter b
Vowels 2
Word bloop

Board 15

First letter s
Vowels 2
Word salsa

Board 16

First letter g
Vowels 2
Word gorge

About 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:

  1. BLAZE
  2. BLISS
  3. SINEW
  4. SUNNY
  5. NASAL
  6. TRAMP
  7. VIOLA
  8. MUMMY
  9. KNOLL
  10. WRUNG
  11. SPELL
  12. REACH
  13. NOHOW
  14. BOWEL
  15. BINGO
  16. 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

  1. PARKA
  2. STINT
  3. TIPSY
  4. FLAIL
  5. OUTTA
  6. TRAIT
  7. SITED
  8. GIDDY
  9. AWAIT
  10. BOXED
  11. POISE
  12. AGAIN
  13. PRANG
  14. WRIST
  15. BESET
  16. WAIST

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