Unscramble ALAAIDCORLEDOGEY: Letters, Definition, and Answer
ALAAIDCORLEDOGEY unscrambles to CLEARLY A GOOD IDEA, the 16-letter cartoon caption answer from Sunday Jumble Answers Today: October 4, 2026. Repeated letters: A (×3), L (×2), D (×2), O (×2), E (×2).
How to crack ALAAIDCORLEDOGEY
Sixteen letters. Build the short, certain words first: IDEA and GOOD, then the single A. What's left, C, L, E, A, R, L, Y, spells CLEARLY.
Where the letters of ALAAIDCORLEDOGEY come from
| Puzzle word | Solved | Circled letters it gives |
|---|---|---|
| ALMPAI | IMPALA | A, L, A |
| OIHDAR | HAIRDO | A, I, D |
| HROCCS | SCORCH | C, O, R |
| YPSELE | SLEEPY | L, E |
| NROIDO | INDOOR | D, O |
| YERGES | GEYSER | G, E, Y |
What does CLEARLY A GOOD IDEA mean?
CLEARLY A GOOD IDEA (idiom): used to say that, in hindsight, a choice or action was obviously the smart or sensible one. Example: “Calling a professional to powerwash the windows turned out to be clearly a good idea.”
Similar: a wise choice, the right call, a smart move. Opposite: a terrible idea, a huge mistake, clearly a bad idea.
Did you know? The cartoon's punchline plays on the fact that the powerwashing results looked so much better that calling for help "sooner" was, in hindsight, clearly a good idea.
The everyday phrase behind CLEARLY A GOOD IDEA
Clearly has two jobs in English, and the punchline needs both. Placed after a verb, it describes manner: 'She explained it clearly.' At the front of a statement, it means obviously: 'Clearly, the plan worked.' In everyday speech the full phrase usually comes with hindsight, as in 'Booking early was clearly a good idea.' Its mirror image is the rueful 'it seemed like a good idea at the time', used when things went wrong. Careful writers use clearly sparingly in arguments, since it can make a debatable claim sound settled.
How CLEARLY A GOOD IDEA fits the puzzle
Power-washing windows makes them clear, so it was clearly a good idea. The pun hides in the adverb.
The circled letters were pulled from IMPALA, HAIRDO, SCORCH, SLEEPY, INDOOR and GEYSER.
Other words in ALAAIDCORLEDOGEY
1167 shorter dictionary words can be made from a subset of these tiles:
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The rest of this puzzle
- ALMPAI → IMPALA (a slender African antelope known for its reddish-brown coat and ability to leap great distances)
- OIHDAR → HAIRDO (the style in which a person's hair has been cut or arranged)
- HROCCS → SCORCH (to burn the surface of something slightly so as to discolor or damage it)
- YPSELE → SLEEPY (feeling or showing a need or desire for sleep)
- NROIDO → INDOOR (situated, used, or done inside a building rather than in the open air)
- YERGES → GEYSER (a hot spring in which water intermittently boils and erupts, sending a tall column of water and steam into the air)
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