Sedecordle Wordle

Sedecordle answers for (#26)

The 16 answers to Sedecordle #26 for are: SOAPY, CAVED, SWEAR, WANNA, PALER, ABATE, RIDER, UVULA, PRAWN, FACED, MESSY, JUNTA, TAPIR, STEER, SMOKY, TAPER.

All 16 answers with meanings

  1. SOAPY – adjective: Literal senses: Resembling soap.
  2. CAVED – verb: past participle of cave
  3. SWEAR – verb: To take an oath, to promise intensely, solemnly, and/or with legally binding effect.
  4. WANNA – contraction: Represents a contracted pronunciation of want to.
  5. PALER – adjective: comparative form of pale: more pale
  6. ABATE – verb: To lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate.
  7. RIDER – noun: A mounted person. A knight, or other mounted warrior. An old Dutch gold coin with the…
  8. UVULA – noun: Ellipsis of palatine uvula, the fleshy appendage that hangs from the back of the soft palate, that closes the nasopharynx during swallowing.
  9. PRAWN – noun: A crustacean of the suborder Dendrobranchiata.
  10. FACED – verb: simple past and past participle of face
  11. MESSY – adjective: In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.
  12. JUNTA – noun: The committee of military officers that have usurped political control.
  13. TAPIR – noun: An odd-toed ungulate of the genus Tapirus with a long prehensile upper lip.
  14. STEER – verb: To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel).
  15. SMOKY – adjective: Filled with smoke.
  16. TAPER – noun: A slender wax candle.

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 s
Vowels 3
Word soapy

Board 2

First letter c
Vowels 2
Word caved

Board 3

First letter s
Vowels 2
Word swear

Board 4

First letter w
Vowels 2
Word wanna

Board 5

First letter p
Vowels 2
Word paler

Board 6

First letter a
Vowels 3
Word abate

Board 7

First letter r
Vowels 2
Word rider

Board 8

First letter u
Vowels 3
Word uvula

Board 9

First letter p
Vowels 1
Word prawn

Board 10

First letter f
Vowels 2
Word faced

Board 11

First letter m
Vowels 2
Word messy

Board 12

First letter j
Vowels 2
Word junta

Board 13

First letter t
Vowels 2
Word tapir

Board 14

First letter s
Vowels 2
Word steer

Board 15

First letter s
Vowels 2
Word smoky

Board 16

First letter t
Vowels 2
Word taper

About today's words

  • Words with a repeated letter: 6
  • Most common letter: A (in 12 words)
  • Most common first letter: S (4 words)

How puzzle #26 plays

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

  • Best first guess for these boards: ASTER (colored tiles on the first row: 38 of 80).
  • Boards with a single possible word left after the suggested starting words AROSE, UNLIT, DUCHY, GIMPY: 12 of 16.
  • Hardest board: #3 SWEAR (possible words still left: 4).
  • Look-alike traps, one letter away: TAPER (CAPER, PAPER, TAKER +4); PALER (BALER, PACER, PAGER +3); RIDER (CIDER, EIDER, HIDER +2).
  • Letters that appear in none of the 16 words: G H Q X Z.
  • Harder than 68% of the 25 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. THUNK
  2. NOISY
  3. GROVE
  4. PENAL
  5. INDEX
  6. FETCH
  7. DUVET
  8. JOULE
  9. HALAL
  10. BONUS
  11. INNER
  12. WORTH
  13. LEAST
  14. SWIRL
  15. PSYCH
  16. ANTSY

Savior

Savior starts with four guesses already on the boards, and none of them is an answer. Starting words already played: COVEN, FETUS, HIKED, CLAMP

  1. OASIS
  2. THREW
  3. OLDEN
  4. FROWN
  5. EPOCH
  6. SPARK
  7. CLIMB
  8. CLOCK
  9. AGAVE
  10. SISSY
  11. BULKY
  12. WHISK
  13. WRECK
  14. DWELL
  15. MELEE
  16. DROVE

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