Unscramble YPSELE: Letters, Definition, and Answer
YPSELE unscrambles to SLEEPY, a 6-letter adjective from Sunday Jumble Answers Today: October 4, 2026. Repeated letters: E (×2).
How to crack YPSELE
SLEEP is in the tiles, and the Y closes it into an adjective: SLEEP + Y. The double E stays together in the middle.
Letter map: YPSELE → SLEEPY
| Position in SLEEPY | Letter | Tile in YPSELE | Circled for the caption |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | S | 3 | — |
| 2 | L | 5 | Yes |
| 3 | E | 4 | Yes |
| 4 | E | 6 | — |
| 5 | P | 2 | — |
| 6 | Y | 1 | — |
What does SLEEPY mean?
SLEEPY (adjective): feeling or showing a need or desire for sleep; drowsy. Example: “He felt sleepy after the big lunch and struggled to stay awake.”
Similar: drowsy, tired, weary. Opposite: awake, alert, energetic.
Did you know? Sleepy is one of the Seven Dwarfs in Disney's 1937 film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," named for constantly yawning and nodding off.
Using SLEEPY in a sentence
SLEEPY describes wanting to sleep, not being asleep: a sleepy child is still awake, a sleeping one isn't. It's also different from tired, since you can be tired after a run without feeling the least bit sleepy. Writers often stretch it to places, where a sleepy village or a sleepy seaside town is quiet and slow, usually in an affectionate way. Sleepyhead is a gentle, teasing name for someone who has just woken up. And Washington Irving's 1820 story 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' made the word the name of one of America's best-known fictional towns.
How SLEEPY fits the puzzle
SLEEPY circles L and E, an L and the E of CLEARLY.
Its circled letters feed the caption answer, CLEARLY A GOOD IDEA.
Other words in YPSELE
40 shorter dictionary words can be made from a subset of these tiles:
PEELSPELESSEELYSEEPYSLEEPSLYPESPEELYELPSEELSEELYELSEESPYEYESLEESLEYSLYESLYSEPEELPEESPELEPYESSEELSEEPYELPEELELSEYELEELEYLYEPEEPESPLYPYESEESELSLYSPYYEPYES
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)
- 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)
- ALAAIDCORLEDOGEY → CLEARLY A GOOD IDEA (used to say that, in hindsight, a choice or action was obviously the smart or sensible one)
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