Good advice and bad advisors for riddles

[AribertDeckers]

9.7.2025
Good advice and bad advisors for riddles

Some riddles are so weird, that one does have no other choice than to use a word-lister.

Right now I again am at war with words with 7 letters. There is a myriad of them, and I know so very few. So I looked at such a list. The whole list consists of these words:

IN THE LIST:                              MY THOUGHTS:
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acromia advance apnoeic azygous backhoe
behaver bennies bewraps briners bristle
burring canzoni carrion cashier chancel
chasses choking cimices cologne commune
connect convect convene dibbers dippier
disturb efforts erratas eustasy foiling   boiling ?
garnets grapery gurging hipshot jobbing   hopping ?
joiners knawels laities lasting linemen   wasting ? lately ?
literal logions lustily misknew misshod   legions ? misshot ?
mortals neckers nubbins overtop pappous   portals ? muffins ?
parrels pedalos phytane pinitol reclean   parrots ? reclaim ?
redfins rescind sackers saucier searing   soaring ?
sereins slainte snicker sportle stinger
tubules tughrik turfman upflung uplight   upright ?
uranous yawling                           yawning ?


Just the moment I see this list, I immediately know that some words (similars) are missing. I added them on the right in this overview.

Isn't it a shame that the list is so small?

And isn't it a shame that "erratas" is such a stupid mistake? The singular is "erratum" and the plural is "errata". There does not exist "erratas", except for an extremely weird plural for errata collections - but I do have doubts about such a construction.

The solution by the way, is BUZZSAW.