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 BLUER and then ADMIN. Between them they use 10 different letters that appear somewhere in today's answers.
Hint 2: How many vowels each word has
- Word 1: 2 vowels
- Word 2: 1 vowel, plus a Y
- Word 3: 2 vowels
- Word 4: 2 vowels
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: An open sore of the skin, eyes or mucous membrane, often caused by an initial abrasion and generally maintained by an inflammation and/or an infe...
- Word 2: In a dim manner; not clearly.
- Word 3: The control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull which is responsible for perception, cognition, attention, memory, emotion...
- Word 4: A surname.
Hint 5: The first letter of each word
- Word 1: starts with U
- Word 2: starts with D
- Word 3: starts with B
- Word 4: starts with B
Hint 6: First and last letters
- Word 1: U _ _ _ R
- Word 2: D _ _ _ Y
- Word 3: B _ _ _ N
- Word 4: B _ _ _ N
Show all 4 answers
- ULCER
- DIMLY
- BRAIN
- BEGUN
The answers to Quordle #1740 are ULCER, DIMLY, BRAIN, BEGUN.
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What today's answers mean
- ULCER: An open sore of the skin, eyes or mucous membrane, often caused by an initial abrasion and generally maintained by an inflammation and/or an infection.
- DIMLY: In a dim manner; not clearly.
- BRAIN: The control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull which is responsible for perception, cognition, attention, memory, emotion, and action.
- BEGUN: A surname.
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