Daily Kish Words
By @Dez in Stumptown and @Julia of the Bay Area.
A scratchpad for and a history of a month of choosing Wordleable words to play from the passages selected by Matt Kish for his project to illustrate every page of Moby-Dick, publishing one image per day.
This list was introduced April 30 and May 1, 2025, as @Dez wrapped up the year of playing REMIT and with @Julia worked out how we wanted to continue the Moby-Dick exploration beyond that point. We used this method to pick follow-up words to a variety of theme starters for the rest of May 2025.
See also:
- https://rentry.co/wordle-meta-list
- https://rentry.co/remit-99s
- https://rentry.co/wordle-moby-dick
- https://rentry.co/moby-wordleable
Matt Kish:
- https://tinhouse.com/author/matt-kish/
- https://www.matt-kish.com
- https://www.instagram.com/matt_kish_art
Contents:
- Chapter 86 The Tail
- Chapter 87 The Grand Armada
- Page 368 …the circus-running sun…
- Page 369 ...here's the ark!
- Page 370 ...up-playing and sparkling...
- Page 371 ...Ahab's brow was left gaunt...
- Page 372 ...like King Porus' elephants...
- Page 373 ...a white gash in the sea...
- Page 374 ...into the innermost heart of the shoal...
- Page 375 ...another and still stranger world...
- Page 376 ...the umbilical cord of Madame Leviathan...
- Page 377 ...tossing the keen spade about him...
- Page 378 The waif is a pennoned pole...
- Chapter 88 Schools and Schoolmasters
- Chapter 89 Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish
- Chapter 90 Heads or Tails
- Chapter 91 The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud
- Page 389 ...the stranger showed French colors...
- Page 390 ...the Frenchman had a second whale alongside...
- Page 391 ...the likeness of a huge drooping stalk... 🥀
- Page 392 ...vigorously puffing tobacco-smoke...
- Page 393 ...their destined victim appeared...
- Page 394 ...tell him I've diddled him...
- Page 395 ...this, good friends, is ambergris...
- Chapter 92 Ambergris
- Thanks @Julia for doing all the word lists!
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Chapter 86 The Tail
Page 367 Dissect him how I may…
Chapter 87 The Grand Armada
Page 368 …the circus-running sun…
Page 369 ...here's the ark!
Page 370 ...up-playing and sparkling...
Page 371 ...Ahab's brow was left gaunt...
Page 372 ...like King Porus' elephants...
Page 373 ...a white gash in the sea...
Page 374 ...into the innermost heart of the shoal...
FORCE, GLIDE, WHALE, HEART, SHOAL, STORM, GLENS, HEARD, SATIN, SLEEK, QUIET, MOODS
Page 375 ...another and still stranger world...
NEATH, STILL, WORLD, GAZED, VAULT, FORMS, NURSE, WHALE, THOSE, THEIR, GIRTH, DEPTH, HUMAN, YOUNG
Page 376 ...the umbilical cord of Madame Leviathan...
Page 377 ...tossing the keen spade about him...
WHALE, WHILE, TOWED, COILS, ROUND, LOOSE, FLESH, SPADE, WOUND, WHICH, CAUSE, FLAIL
Page 378 The waif is a pennoned pole...
WAIFS, THREE, WHICH, WHALE, PLACE, TOKEN, PRIOR, BOATS, OTHER, CLUMP, DENSE, MIGHT
Chapter 88 Schools and Schoolmasters
Page 379 In cavalier attendance...
Page 380 ...every baby an exotic.
LOVER, MIGHT, NAMED, TASTE, BOWER, LEAVE, WORLD, EVERY, ARDOR, YOUTH, YEARS, DUMPS
Page 381 ...a solitary Leviathan...
Chapter 89 Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish
Page 382 ...vexatious and violent disputes...
WOULD, OFTEN, ARISE, WHALE, MINOR, GRAND, WEARY, CHASE, LOOSE, STORM, DRIFT, THERE
Page 383 A Loose-Fish is fair game...
Page 384 ...yet abandon her he did...
Page 385 What all men's minds...but Loose-Fish?
Chapter 90 Heads or Tails
Page 386 ...si rex habeat caput...
Page 387 It is his.
Page 388 ...is the Queen a mermaid...?
BENCH, BLACK, QUEEN, THERE, ROYAL, STYLE, WHALE, LIMIT, TENTH, CROWN, SEEMS, DENSE
Chapter 91 The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud
Page 389 ...the stranger showed French colors...
Page 390 ...the Frenchman had a second whale alongside...
Page 391 ...the likeness of a huge drooping stalk... 🥀
TASTE, UPPER, CARVE, DROOP, STALK, PAINT, GREEN, THORN, SPIKE, THERE, WHOLE, COLOR
Page 392 ...vigorously puffing tobacco-smoke...
OTHER, STEMS, PIPES, SHORT, SMOKE, THEIR, ABAFT, FIERY, WHICH, AFTER, AVOID, COULD
Page 393 ...their destined victim appeared...
THEIR, CABIN, SMALL, LARGE, WATCH, FIRST, BEGIN, JUDGE, SPOKE, FEVER, WHALE, EAGER, SINCE
Page 394 ...tell him I've diddled him...
VALUE, LIVES, LOOSE, CABLE, CHAIN, WHALE, ASIDE, CABIN, DRINK, THANK, ADMIT, LIGHT
Page 395 ...this, good friends, is ambergris...
BEING, RIVER, ALONG, PURSE, SPADE, HANDS, MIGHT, THUMB, WORTH, OUNCE, BOARD, WOULD
Chapter 92 Ambergris
Page 396 ...we are sown in dishonor, but raised in glory...
FOUND, ROUND, SMALL, ABOUT, GLORY, WORST, ABOVE, OWING, REPEL, OFTEN, WHICH, MINDS, MIGHT
>> And that's a wrap on 30 days of Kish words! <<
Thanks @Julia for doing all the word lists!
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COAST, TIMES, GREAT, ORDER, PLACE, WHALE, FLEET, TRIED, BEING, TAKEN, WORKS, FORTH, SAVOR