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

  1. STEAD – noun: The position or function (of someone or something), as taken on by a successor.
  2. COMMA – noun: The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
  3. TAKEN – adjective: Infatuated; fond of or attracted to.
  4. EVERY – determiner: All of a countable group (considered individually), without exception.
  5. FLESH – noun: The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
  6. COMPO – noun: Workers' compensation.
  7. SHORE – noun: Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond.
  8. SAINT – noun: A deceased person whom a church or another religious group has officially recognised as especially holy or godly; one eminent for piety…
  9. CAVIL – verb: To criticise for petty or frivolous reasons.
  10. JELLY – noun: A dessert made by boiling gelatine (or a plant-based alternative such as agar or carrageenan), sugar and some flavouring (often derived…
  11. SPREE – noun: Uninhibited activity.
  12. SABLE – noun: A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North…
  13. SAUCE – noun: A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
  14. COMET – noun: A small Solar System body consisting mainly of volatile ice, dust and particles of rock whose very eccentric solar orbit periodically…
  15. EARLY – adjective: At a time in advance of the usual or expected event.
  16. LATCH – verb: To close or lock as if with a latch.

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 2
Word stead

Board 2

First letter c
Vowels 2
Word comma

Board 3

First letter t
Vowels 2
Word taken

Board 4

First letter e
Vowels 3
Word every

Board 5

First letter f
Vowels 1
Word flesh

Board 6

First letter c
Vowels 2
Word compo

Board 7

First letter s
Vowels 2
Word shore

Board 8

First letter s
Vowels 2
Word saint

Board 9

First letter c
Vowels 2
Word cavil

Board 10

First letter j
Vowels 2
Word jelly

Board 11

First letter s
Vowels 2
Word spree

Board 12

First letter s
Vowels 2
Word sable

Board 13

First letter s
Vowels 3
Word sauce

Board 14

First letter c
Vowels 2
Word comet

Board 15

First letter e
Vowels 3
Word early

Board 16

First letter l
Vowels 1
Word latch

About 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:

  1. SQUID
  2. KNEEL
  3. QUAIL
  4. BERTH
  5. PROLE
  6. CUSHY
  7. BUXOM
  8. STRIP
  9. NOTCH
  10. MANGY
  11. YIKES
  12. BRAND
  13. TWEED
  14. HEATH
  15. BELIE
  16. 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

  1. CIRCA
  2. GLACE
  3. WILLY
  4. LOATH
  5. RACER
  6. IMAGE
  7. HOOEY
  8. WROTE
  9. TONER
  10. FACET
  11. AGLOW
  12. POKER
  13. SLUNG
  14. BEIGE
  15. NIGHT
  16. GROWL

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