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 NOISE and then DUMPY. 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: 1 vowel, plus a Y
- Word 4: 3 vowels
Hint 3: Which words repeat a letter
- Word 1: yes, one letter appears more than once
- Word 2: no repeated letters
- Word 3: no repeated letters
- Word 4: no repeated letters
Hint 4: What each word means
- Word 1: A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.
- Word 2: A series of bones situated at the back from the head to the pelvis of a human, or from the head to the tail of an animal, enclosing the sp...
- Word 3: As hard as ____.
- Word 4: A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the ____ poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alk...
Hint 5: The first letter of each word
- Word 1: starts with G
- Word 2: starts with S
- Word 3: starts with S
- Word 4: starts with O
Hint 6: First and last letters
- Word 1: G _ _ _ D
- Word 2: S _ _ _ E
- Word 3: S _ _ _ Y
- Word 4: O _ _ _ M
Show all 4 answers
- GREED
- SPINE
- STONY
- OPIUM
The answers to Quordle #1749 are GREED, SPINE, STONY, OPIUM.
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What today's answers mean
- GREED: A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.
- SPINE: A series of bones situated at the back from the head to the pelvis of a human, or from the head to the tail of an animal, enclosing the spinal cord and provid...
- STONY: As hard as stone.
- OPIUM: A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alkaloids such as morph...
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