Sedecordle Wordle

Sedecordle answers for (#34)

The 16 answers to Sedecordle #34 for are: SMEAR, AGENT, PEPPY, BUSBY, TAPER, HOTEL, CHESS, OLIVE, POPPA, GRASS, BELAY, PETAL, BORAX, PROXY, EERIE, PRION.

All 16 answers with meanings

  1. SMEAR – verb: To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.
  2. AGENT – noun: One who exerts power, or has the power to act.
  3. PEPPY – adjective: Full of pep; energetic, cheerful, and vigorous; bouncy
  4. BUSBY – noun: A fur hat, usually with a plume in the front, worn by certain members of the military or brass bands.
  5. TAPER – noun: A slender wax candle.
  6. HOTEL – noun: A large town house or mansion; a grand private residence, especially in France.
  7. CHESS – noun: A board game for two players, each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the…
  8. OLIVE – noun: A tree of species Olea europaea cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean for its fruit and the oil obtained from it.
  9. POPPA – noun: father, papa.
  10. GRASS – noun: Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem,…
  11. BELAY – verb: To make (a rope) fast by turning it around a fastening point such as a cleat.
  12. PETAL – noun: One of the component parts of the corolla of a flower. It applies particularly, but not necessarily only, when the corolla consists of…
  13. BORAX – noun: A white or gray/grey crystalline salt, found in nature as a mineral, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals,…
  14. PROXY – adjective: Used as a proxy or acting as a proxy.
  15. EERIE – adjective: Inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way; strange, weird.
  16. PRION – noun: A self-propagating misfolded conformer of a protein that is responsible for a number of diseases that affect the brain and other neural…

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 smear

Board 2

First letter a
Vowels 2
Word agent

Board 3

First letter p
Vowels 2
Word peppy

Board 4

First letter b
Vowels 2
Word busby

Board 5

First letter t
Vowels 2
Word taper

Board 6

First letter h
Vowels 2
Word hotel

Board 7

First letter c
Vowels 1
Word chess

Board 8

First letter o
Vowels 3
Word olive

Board 9

First letter p
Vowels 2
Word poppa

Board 10

First letter g
Vowels 1
Word grass

Board 11

First letter b
Vowels 3
Word belay

Board 12

First letter p
Vowels 2
Word petal

Board 13

First letter b
Vowels 2
Word borax

Board 14

First letter p
Vowels 2
Word proxy

Board 15

First letter e
Vowels 4
Word eerie

Board 16

First letter p
Vowels 2
Word prion

About today's words

  • Words with a repeated letter: 6
  • Most common letter: E (in 10 words)
  • Most common first letter: P (5 words)

How puzzle #34 plays

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

  • Best first guess for these boards: OPERA (colored tiles on the first row: 37 of 80).
  • Boards with a single possible word left after the suggested starting words AROSE, UNLIT, DUCHY, GIMPY: 13 of 16.
  • Hardest board: #13 BORAX (possible words still left: 3).
  • Look-alike traps, one letter away: TAPER (CAPER, PAPER, TAKER +4); GRASS (BRASS, CRASS, GLASS +2); PETAL (FETAL, METAL, PEDAL +1).
  • Letters that appear in none of the 16 words: D F J K Q W Z.
  • Harder than 21% of the 33 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. QUIFF
  2. STOOL
  3. CARAT
  4. BLAND
  5. TINNY
  6. ALIKE
  7. STINT
  8. HIDER
  9. SLICE
  10. OASES
  11. LAPIN
  12. IRONY
  13. STEEL
  14. BATTY
  15. CHECK
  16. ANGLE

Savior

Savior starts with four guesses already on the boards, and none of them is an answer. Starting words already played: CHILD, LOTUS, BOLUS, DUCAL

  1. SKUNK
  2. CLOVE
  3. BLEED
  4. LABIA
  5. MIXED
  6. TENET
  7. SHINY
  8. GRAFT
  9. PAUSE
  10. STIFF
  11. REGAL
  12. CROCK
  13. AGATE
  14. PRIMP
  15. SWEDE
  16. SWATH

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