Sedecordle Wordle

Sedecordle answers for (#23)

The 16 answers to Sedecordle #23 for are: REEVE, CHESS, OVERT, CLUED, QUEEN, FLUFF, LAMER, OPIUM, PANIC, MORAY, BURNT, FAXED, BANDY, INDIE, CUTIE, CREEL.

All 16 answers with meanings

  1. REEVE – noun: Any of several local officials, with varying responsibilities.
  2. CHESS – noun: A board game for two players, each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the…
  3. OVERT – adjective: Open and not concealed or secret.
  4. CLUED – verb: simple past and past participle of clue
  5. QUEEN – noun: The wife, consort, or widow of a king.
  6. FLUFF – noun: Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
  7. LAMER – adjective: comparative form of lame: more lame
  8. OPIUM – noun: A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and…
  9. PANIC – adjective: Of fear, fright, etc: overwhelming or sudden.
  10. MORAY – noun: Any of the large cosmopolitan carnivorous eels of the family Muraenidae.
  11. BURNT – verb: simple past and past participle of burn
  12. FAXED – adjective: Having a head of hair; hairy.
  13. BANDY – verb: To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.
  14. INDIE – adjective: Independent; from outside the mainstream.
  15. CUTIE – noun: A cute person or animal.
  16. CREEL – noun: A woven basket, especially a wicker basket.

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

Play today's Sedecordle

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 r
Vowels 3
Word reeve

Board 2

First letter c
Vowels 1
Word chess

Board 3

First letter o
Vowels 2
Word overt

Board 4

First letter c
Vowels 2
Word clued

Board 5

First letter q
Vowels 3
Word queen

Board 6

First letter f
Vowels 1
Word fluff

Board 7

First letter l
Vowels 2
Word lamer

Board 8

First letter o
Vowels 3
Word opium

Board 9

First letter p
Vowels 2
Word panic

Board 10

First letter m
Vowels 3
Word moray

Board 11

First letter b
Vowels 1
Word burnt

Board 12

First letter f
Vowels 2
Word faxed

Board 13

First letter b
Vowels 2
Word bandy

Board 14

First letter i
Vowels 3
Word indie

Board 15

First letter c
Vowels 3
Word cutie

Board 16

First letter c
Vowels 2
Word creel

About today's words

  • Words with a repeated letter: 6
  • Most common letter: E (in 10 words)
  • Most common first letter: C (4 words)

How puzzle #23 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: 30 of 80).
  • Boards with a single possible word left after the suggested starting words AROSE, UNLIT, DUCHY, GIMPY: 13 of 16.
  • Hardest board: #12 FAXED (possible words still left: 3).
  • Look-alike traps, one letter away: BANDY (BALDY, BAWDY, BENDY +5); LAMER (LAGER, LASER, LAYER +1); CREEL (CREED, CREEK, CREEP +1).
  • Letters that appear in none of the 16 words: G J K W Z.
  • Harder than 18% of the 22 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. ROACH
  2. FOUNT
  3. NODDY
  4. YACHT
  5. RAYON
  6. DROLL
  7. ALLEY
  8. LURED
  9. SUAVE
  10. GHOUL
  11. GAFFE
  12. LANCE
  13. HEARD
  14. XENON
  15. SQUAD
  16. KEYED

Savior

Savior starts with four guesses already on the boards, and none of them is an answer. Starting words already played: HYENA, SPLIT, STREP, CLOVE

  1. THANE
  2. SHARK
  3. HAZED
  4. BLANK
  5. PRONE
  6. SLANG
  7. KETCH
  8. TRICE
  9. INGOT
  10. BELIE
  11. VOGUE
  12. FAITH
  13. CLIME
  14. DEATH
  15. DEALT
  16. BUSES

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