Contexto Answer — December 7, 2025

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    Contexto #1176

    Sunday, December 7, 2025

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    Today's hints

    Length band
    Min
    5
    Max
    8
    1. Grammatically, the word is a noun.

    Difficulty: 3

    This band is shown with every input used to compute it.

    • coarse length band
    • archive length distribution

    Contexto answer

    Sunday, December 7, 2025 · #1176
    TADPOLE

    The Contexto answer for Sunday, December 7, 2025 was TADPOLE.

    Yesterday's full result

    2025-12-06

    Puzzle Number
    1175
    Answer
    ACID
    Word Info
    Word
    ACID
    Scrabble Score
    7
    Wwf Score
    8
    Part Of Speech
    n
    Definition
    any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt
    Look Alikes
    ABID, ACED, AMID, ARID, AVID

    Source verification

    Sources
    1
    Agreement
    single
    Confidence
    confirmed
    • 1: verified (0 ms)

    Checked 2026-06-18T16:15:38.000Z

    Recent answers

    • 2025-12-06 — puzzleNumber: 1175 · answer: ACID · length: 4 · firstLetter: A · partOfSpeech: n · lookAlikeCount: 5
    • 2025-12-05 — puzzleNumber: 1174 · answer: LIE · length: 3 · firstLetter: L · partOfSpeech: n · lookAlikeCount: 8
    • 2025-12-04 — puzzleNumber: 1173 · answer: OMELET · length: 6 · firstLetter: O · partOfSpeech: n · lookAlikeCount: 0
    • 2025-12-03 — puzzleNumber: 1172 · answer: DUST · length: 4 · firstLetter: D · partOfSpeech: n · lookAlikeCount: 8
    • 2025-12-02 — puzzleNumber: 1171 · answer: IGLOO · length: 5 · firstLetter: I · partOfSpeech: n · lookAlikeCount: 1
    • 2025-12-01 — puzzleNumber: 1170 · answer: NUN · length: 3 · firstLetter: N · lookAlikeCount: 8
    • 2025-11-30 — puzzleNumber: 1169 · answer: TOASTER · length: 7 · firstLetter: T · partOfSpeech: n · lookAlikeCount: 4
    • 2025-11-29 — puzzleNumber: 1168 · answer: DESSERT · length: 7 · firstLetter: D · partOfSpeech: n · lookAlikeCount: 1
    • 2025-11-28 — puzzleNumber: 1167 · answer: PILL · length: 4 · firstLetter: P · partOfSpeech: n · lookAlikeCount: 8
    • 2025-11-27 — puzzleNumber: 1166 · answer: SCREWDRIVER · length: 11 · firstLetter: S · partOfSpeech: n · lookAlikeCount: 0
    • 2025-11-26 — puzzleNumber: 1165 · answer: LITERATURE · length: 10 · firstLetter: L · partOfSpeech: n · lookAlikeCount: 0
    • 2025-11-25 — puzzleNumber: 1164 · answer: PORRIDGE · length: 8 · firstLetter: P · partOfSpeech: n · lookAlikeCount: 2
    • 2025-11-24 — puzzleNumber: 1163 · answer: RACCOON · length: 7 · firstLetter: R · partOfSpeech: n · lookAlikeCount: 0
    • 2025-11-23 — puzzleNumber: 1162 · answer: BUCKET · length: 6 · firstLetter: B · partOfSpeech: n · lookAlikeCount: 7

    Archive statistics

    Part Of Speech Distribution
    N
    204
    Unknown
    1
    V
    2
    Word Length Distribution
    3
    9
    4
    41
    5
    44
    6
    38
    7
    36
    8
    21
    9
    9
    10
    5
    11
    2
    12
    1
    13
    1
    First Letter Frequency
    A
    10
    B
    15
    C
    23
    D
    10
    E
    3
    F
    9
    G
    5
    H
    7
    I
    2
    J
    2
    K
    2
    L
    13
    M
    6
    N
    6
    O
    4
    P
    25
    Q
    2
    R
    10
    S
    15
    T
    19
    U
    2
    V
    8
    W
    6
    X
    0
    Y
    1
    Z
    2
    Concrete Vs Abstract
    Unknown
    207
    Average Look Alike Family Size
    3.7
    Month Table
    • Date
      2025-12-06
      Puzzle Number
      1175
      Answer
      ACID
      Length
      4
      First Letter
      A
      Part Of Speech
      n
      Look Alike Count
      5
    • Date
      2025-12-05
      Puzzle Number
      1174
      Answer
      LIE
      Length
      3
      First Letter
      L
      Part Of Speech
      n
      Look Alike Count
      8
    • Date
      2025-12-04
      Puzzle Number
      1173
      Answer
      OMELET
      Length
      6
      First Letter
      O
      Part Of Speech
      n
      Look Alike Count
      0
    • Date
      2025-12-03
      Puzzle Number
      1172
      Answer
      DUST
      Length
      4
      First Letter
      D
      Part Of Speech
      n
      Look Alike Count
      8
    • Date
      2025-12-02
      Puzzle Number
      1171
      Answer
      IGLOO
      Length
      5
      First Letter
      I
      Part Of Speech
      n
      Look Alike Count
      1
    • Date
      2025-12-01
      Puzzle Number
      1170
      Answer
      NUN
      Length
      3
      First Letter
      N
      Look Alike Count
      8

    How this brief was computed

    Hint classes: computed

    Generated lines used: 0

    Verification run: 20261007T011534Z

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    Contexto is a daily word game where you guess the secret word and, instead of letter clues, you get a rank: how semantically close your guess is to the answer. A rank of 1 means you found it; a rank of 5,000 means your word is barely related. The game uses an AI language model to measure how often words appear in similar contexts, so synonyms and closely related ideas score best.

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