Sedecordle answers for (#30)
The 16 answers to Sedecordle #30 for are: STEAD, COMMA, TAKEN, EVERY, FLESH, COMPO, SHORE, SAINT, CAVIL, JELLY, SPREE, SABLE, SAUCE, COMET, EARLY, LATCH.
All 16 answers with meanings
- STEAD – noun: The position or function (of someone or something), as taken on by a successor.
- COMMA – noun: The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
- TAKEN – adjective: Infatuated; fond of or attracted to.
- EVERY – determiner: All of a countable group (considered individually), without exception.
- FLESH – noun: The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
- COMPO – noun: Workers' compensation.
- SHORE – noun: Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond.
- SAINT – noun: A deceased person whom a church or another religious group has officially recognised as especially holy or godly; one eminent for piety…
- CAVIL – verb: To criticise for petty or frivolous reasons.
- JELLY – noun: A dessert made by boiling gelatine (or a plant-based alternative such as agar or carrageenan), sugar and some flavouring (often derived…
- SPREE – noun: Uninhibited activity.
- SABLE – noun: A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North…
- SAUCE – noun: A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
- COMET – noun: A small Solar System body consisting mainly of volatile ice, dust and particles of rock whose very eccentric solar orbit periodically…
- EARLY – adjective: At a time in advance of the usual or expected event.
- LATCH – verb: To close or lock as if with a latch.
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
steadBoard 2
First letter
cVowels
2Word
commaBoard 3
First letter
tVowels
2Word
takenBoard 4
First letter
eVowels
3Word
everyBoard 5
First letter
fVowels
1Word
fleshBoard 6
First letter
cVowels
2Word
compoBoard 7
First letter
sVowels
2Word
shoreBoard 8
First letter
sVowels
2Word
saintBoard 9
First letter
cVowels
2Word
cavilBoard 10
First letter
jVowels
2Word
jellyBoard 11
First letter
sVowels
2Word
spreeBoard 12
First letter
sVowels
2Word
sableBoard 13
First letter
sVowels
3Word
sauceBoard 14
First letter
cVowels
2Word
cometBoard 15
First letter
eVowels
3Word
earlyBoard 16
First letter
lVowels
1Word
latchAbout today's words
- Words with a repeated letter: 5
- Most common letter: E (in 11 words)
- Most common first letter: S (6 words)
How puzzle #30 plays
Figures for this day's 16 words, measured against the 2,779 words that can be answers:
- Best first guess for these boards: LEAST (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: #4 EVERY (possible words still left: 5).
- Look-alike traps, one letter away: SHORE (CHORE, SCORE, SHARE +8); LATCH (BATCH, CATCH, HATCH +5); SAINT (FAINT, PAINT, SKINT +2).
- Letters that appear in none of the 16 words: G Q W X Z.
- Harder than 76% of the 29 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:
- SQUID
- KNEEL
- QUAIL
- BERTH
- PROLE
- CUSHY
- BUXOM
- STRIP
- NOTCH
- MANGY
- YIKES
- BRAND
- TWEED
- HEATH
- BELIE
- GUILT
Savior
Savior starts with four guesses already on the boards, and none of them is an answer. Starting words already played: MIDST, BLAME, STANK, PRIDE
- CIRCA
- GLACE
- WILLY
- LOATH
- RACER
- IMAGE
- HOOEY
- WROTE
- TONER
- FACET
- AGLOW
- POKER
- SLUNG
- BEIGE
- NIGHT
- GROWL