I solved Semantle #285 in 35 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.72. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #13. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 79.43 (998/1000). semantle.com/
A relief! But I am now puzzling as Semantle thinks two words spelt different mean the same thing (auto changed my second guess to be the same word) and I think they have subtly different meanings.