Hints for all eight words in today's Octordle, from gentle to strong. Word 1 is the top-left board, and the rest follow in reading order.
Hint 1: Two strong opening words for today
Start with ADORN and then SLICE. Between them they use 10 different letters that appear somewhere in today's answers.
Hint 2: How many vowels each word has
- Word 1: 1 vowel
- Word 2: 1 vowel
- Word 3: 2 vowels
- Word 4: 2 vowels
- Word 5: 2 vowels, plus a Y
- Word 6: 1 vowel, plus a Y
- Word 7: 2 vowels
- Word 8: 2 vowels
Hint 3: Which words repeat a letter
- Word 1: no repeated letters
- Word 2: no repeated letters
- Word 3: yes, one letter appears more than once
- Word 4: yes, one letter appears more than once
- Word 5: no repeated letters
- Word 6: no repeated letters
- Word 7: yes, one letter appears more than once
- Word 8: yes, one letter appears more than once
Hint 4: What each word means
- Word 1: Unable to move.
- Word 2: A long bladed weapon with a grip and typically a pommel and crossguard (together forming a hilt), which is designed to cut, stab, slash and/or hack.
- Word 3: Great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion.
- Word 4: To make merry; to have a happy, lively time.
- Word 5: Pouring with ____; wet; showery
- Word 6: To greet informally, especially by saying "____"
- Word 7: Part of the large intestine; the final segment of the digestive system, after (distal to) the ileum and before (proximal to) the rectum. (Because t...
- Word 8: A type of short, diagonally cut pasta.
Hint 5: The first letter of each word
- Word 1: starts with S
- Word 2: starts with S
- Word 3: starts with A
- Word 4: starts with R
- Word 5: starts with R
- Word 6: starts with H
- Word 7: starts with C
- Word 8: starts with P
Hint 6: First and last letters
- Word 1: S _ _ _ K
- Word 2: S _ _ _ D
- Word 3: A _ _ _ R
- Word 4: R _ _ _ L
- Word 5: R _ _ _ Y
- Word 6: H _ _ _ Y
- Word 7: C _ _ _ N
- Word 8: P _ _ _ E
Show all 8 answers
- STUCK
- SWORD
- ARDOR
- REVEL
- RAINY
- HOWDY
- COLON
- PENNE
The answers to Octordle #1734 are STUCK, SWORD, ARDOR, REVEL, RAINY, HOWDY, COLON, PENNE.
Octordle deep dive
More about today's puzzle. Everything in this section can include the answer.
What today's answers mean
- STUCK: Unable to move.
- SWORD: A long bladed weapon with a grip and typically a pommel and crossguard (together forming a hilt), which is designed to cut, stab, slash and/or hack.
- ARDOR: Great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion.
- REVEL: To make merry; to have a happy, lively time.
- RAINY: Pouring with rain; wet; showery
- HOWDY: To greet informally, especially by saying "howdy"
- COLON: Part of the large intestine; the final segment of the digestive system, after (distal to) the ileum and before (proximal to) the rectum. (Because the colon is the larg...
- PENNE: A type of short, diagonally cut pasta.
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