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 HASTE and then ROUND. 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: 3 vowels
- Word 4: 2 vowels
- Word 5: 2 vowels
- Word 6: 2 vowels, plus a Y
- Word 7: 1 vowel
- Word 8: 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
- Word 5: yes, one letter appears more than once
- Word 6: no repeated letters
- Word 7: no repeated letters
- Word 8: yes, one letter appears more than once
Hint 4: What each word means
- Word 1: The standard representation of such a space in 3-dimensional Euclidean space: a surface or solid formed by rotating a closed curve, especially a c...
- Word 2: Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.
- Word 3: Intense; sensitive; sharp.
- Word 4: Weighed down with a load, burdened.
- Word 5: To attack or assail, especially from all sides.
- Word 6: Any of the medium-sized to large feliform carnivores of the family Hyaenidae, native to Africa and Asia and noted for the sound similar to laughter which the...
- Word 7: To hurl; to release (an object) with some force from one’s hands, an apparatus, etc. so that it moves rapidly through the air.
- Word 8: The employees of a business.
Hint 5: The first letter of each word
- Word 1: starts with T
- Word 2: starts with P
- Word 3: starts with A
- Word 4: starts with L
- Word 5: starts with B
- Word 6: starts with H
- Word 7: starts with T
- Word 8: starts with S
Hint 6: First and last letters
- Word 1: T _ _ _ S
- Word 2: P _ _ _ T
- Word 3: A _ _ _ E
- Word 4: L _ _ _ N
- Word 5: B _ _ _ T
- Word 6: H _ _ _ A
- Word 7: T _ _ _ W
- Word 8: S _ _ _ F
Show all 8 answers
- TORUS
- PIVOT
- ACUTE
- LADEN
- BESET
- HYENA
- THREW
- STAFF
The answers to Octordle #1731 are TORUS, PIVOT, ACUTE, LADEN, BESET, HYENA, THREW, STAFF.
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What today's answers mean
- TORUS: The standard representation of such a space in 3-dimensional Euclidean space: a surface or solid formed by rotating a closed curve, especially a circle, about a line ...
- PIVOT: Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.
- ACUTE: Intense; sensitive; sharp.
- LADEN: Weighed down with a load, burdened.
- BESET: To attack or assail, especially from all sides.
- HYENA: Any of the medium-sized to large feliform carnivores of the family Hyaenidae, native to Africa and Asia and noted for the sound similar to laughter which they can make if excited.
- THREW: To hurl; to release (an object) with some force from one’s hands, an apparatus, etc. so that it moves rapidly through the air.
- STAFF: The employees of a business.
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