Hints for all four words in today's Quordle, 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 HOIST and then DRUNK. Between them they use 9 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: 1 vowel
Hint 3: Which words repeat a letter
- Word 1: no repeated letters
- Word 2: no repeated letters
- Word 3: no repeated letters
- Word 4: no repeated letters
Hint 4: What each word means
- Word 1: Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
- Word 2: Having a value of; proper to be exchanged for.
- Word 3: A piece of timber or steel laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed.
- Word 4: A slough, a low, wet, miry place. (Compare slank.)
Hint 5: The first letter of each word
- Word 1: starts with S
- Word 2: starts with W
- Word 3: starts with J
- Word 4: starts with S
Hint 6: First and last letters
- Word 1: S _ _ _ T
- Word 2: W _ _ _ H
- Word 3: J _ _ _ T
- Word 4: S _ _ _ K
Show all 4 answers
- SHORT
- WORTH
- JOIST
- SLUNK
The answers to Quordle #1726 are SHORT, WORTH, JOIST, SLUNK.
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What today's answers mean
- SHORT: Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
- WORTH: Having a value of; proper to be exchanged for.
- JOIST: A piece of timber or steel laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed.
- SLUNK: A slough, a low, wet, miry place. (Compare slank.)
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