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 LYRIC and then STOKE. 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: 2 vowels
- Word 3: 2 vowels, plus a Y
- Word 4: 2 vowels, plus a Y
Hint 3: Which words repeat a letter
- Word 1: no repeated letters
- Word 2: yes, one letter appears more than once
- Word 3: no repeated letters
- Word 4: yes, one letter appears more than once
Hint 4: What each word means
- Word 1: 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 2: A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
- Word 3: To put off until a later time; to defer.
- Word 4: In the manner of ice; with a cold or chilling effect.
Hint 5: The first letter of each word
- Word 1: starts with J
- Word 2: starts with C
- Word 3: starts with D
- Word 4: starts with I
Hint 6: First and last letters
- Word 1: J _ _ _ T
- Word 2: C _ _ _ K
- Word 3: D _ _ _ Y
- Word 4: I _ _ _ Y
Show all 4 answers
- JOIST
- CROOK
- DELAY
- ICILY
The answers to Quordle #1745 are JOIST, CROOK, DELAY, ICILY.
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What today's answers mean
- 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.
- CROOK: A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
- DELAY: To put off until a later time; to defer.
- ICILY: In the manner of ice; with a cold or chilling effect.
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