Today's Quordle Hints (and Answer) for Monday, July 28, 2025
How to play Quordle
Quordle lives on the Merriam-Webster website. A new puzzle goes live every day. If you've never played, it's a twist on The New York Times' daily Wordle game, in which you have a limited number of attempts to guess a five-letter mystery word. In Quordle, though, you're simultaneously solving four Wordle-style puzzles, and each of your guesses gets applied to the four puzzles simultaneously. Due to the increased difficulty, Quordle grants you nine guesses (12 if you play on 'Chill' mode, or eight if you play on 'Extreme'), rather than Wordle's six.
To start, guess a five-letter word. The letters of the word in each of the four quadrants will turn green if they're correct, yellow if you have the right letter in the wrong place, or gray if the letter isn't in that secret word at all.
Ready for the hints? Let's go!
Can you give me a hint for today's Quordle?
Upper left: Sweet.
Upper right: Secret love
Lower left: Clothing item.
Lower right: Pass up.
Does today's Quordle have any double or repeated letters?
Upper left: No.
Upper right: Yes, a repeated consonant.
Lower left: No.
Lower right: Yes, a repeated vowel.
What letters do today's Quordle words start with?
Upper left: C
Upper right: T
Lower left: S
Lower right: F
What letters do today's Quordle words end with?
Upper left: Y
Upper right: T
Lower left: T
Lower right: O
What is the solution to today's Quordle?
Upper left: CANDY
Upper right: TRYST
Lower left: SHIRT
Lower right: FORGO
How I solved today's Quordle
SLATE and MOUND are my go-to starter words.
Let's try STIFF for the bottom left. Getting there. SKIRT? Nope, has to be SHIRT.
The upper right only has Y as a vowel—maybe TRYST? Yes.
I'll try DANDY for the upper left. One off. CANDY.
Not totally sure about this last one, but I think FORGO fits. Phew!
The best starter words for Quordle
What should you play for that first guess? We can look to Wordle for some general guidelines.
The best starters tend to contain common letters, to increase the chances of getting yellow and green squares to guide your guessing. (And if you get all grays when guessing common letters, that's still excellent information to help you rule out possibilities.) There isn't a single 'best' starting word, but The New York Times's Wordle analysis bot has suggested starting with one of these:
CRANE
TRACE
SLANT
CRATE
CARTE
Meanwhile, an MIT analysis found that you'll eliminate the most possibilities in the first round by starting with one of these:
SALET
REAST
TRACE
CRATE
SLATE
Other good picks might be ARISE or ROUND. Words like ADIEU and AUDIO get more vowels in play, but you could argue that it's better to start with an emphasis on consonants, using a starter like RENTS or CLAMP. Choose your strategy, and see how it plays out.
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