Today's Quordle Hints (and Answer) for Friday, August 15, 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: Ocean mammal.
Upper right: Light refractor.
Lower left: Duck.
Lower right: Conical home.
Does today's Quordle have any double or repeated letters?
Upper left: No.
Upper right: No.
Lower left: No.
Lower right: Yes, a repeated vowel.
What letters do today's Quordle words start with?
Upper left: W
Upper right: P
Lower left: D
Lower right: T
What letters do today's Quordle words end with?
Upper left: E
Upper right: M
Lower left: E
Lower right: E
What is the solution to today's Quordle?
Upper left: WHALE
Upper right: PRISM
Lower left: DRAKE
Lower right: TEPEE
How I solved today's Quordle
I'll start with SLATE and MOUND, as I always do.
DRAPE might fit the bottom left. One off. The only thing I can think of is DRAKE. OK!
The upper right is probably PRISM. Yep.
Maybe there's a second E in the upper left, for a word like LEAVE. Nope. That second E worked for the bottom right, though! OK, so the upper left ends in ALE. WHALE? Yep.
This last word has to go T-E-P-blank-E, I think. What the heck? Oh, it's TEPEE.
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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