Octordle hints and answers for October 17, 2026

Start with METRO and then ALIGN. Between them they use 10 different letters that appear somewhere in today's answers.

1. Word 1: 2 vowels
2. Word 2: 2 vowels
3. Word 3: 2 vowels
4. Word 4: 3 vowels
5. Word 5: 1 vowel
6. Word 6: 2 vowels
7. Word 7: 2 vowels
8. Word 8: 3 vowels

1. Word 1: no repeated letters
2. Word 2: yes, one letter appears more than once
3. Word 3: no repeated letters
4. Word 4: yes, one letter appears more than once
5. Word 5: no repeated letters
6. Word 6: no repeated letters
7. Word 7: yes, one letter appears more than once
8. Word 8: no repeated letters

1. Word 1: Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove.
2. Word 2: A ____.
3. Word 3: A participant in a boxing match; a fighter who ____.
4. Word 4: To make joyful or proud.
5. Word 5: A fad or fashion style.
6. Word 6: Having honorable qualities; having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean or dubious in conduct and character.
7. Word 7: Using the techniques of comedy, as a composition, performer etc; amusing, entertaining.
8. Word 8: Of or relating to ____ software development, a technique for iterative and incremental development of software involving coll...

1. Word 1: starts with G
2. Word 2: starts with P
3. Word 3: starts with B
4. Word 4: starts with E
5. Word 5: starts with T
6. Word 6: starts with N
7. Word 7: starts with C
8. Word 8: starts with A

1. Word 1: G _ _ _ E
2. Word 2: P _ _ _ O
3. Word 3: B _ _ _ R
4. Word 4: E _ _ _ E
5. Word 5: T _ _ _ D
6. Word 6: N _ _ _ E
7. Word 7: C _ _ _ C
8. Word 8: A _ _ _ E