Today's Quordle drops on Thursday with a quartet that spans heavy loads, forced removals, textile craftsmanship, and pastoral landscapes, a mixed bag of vocabulary that rewards flexible thinking. With nine guesses to solve all four words simultaneously, you'll need every edge you can get. We've got the hints to guide you to a clean sweep.
The Basics (For New Players)
Quordle gives you nine attempts to crack four five-letter words at once. Each guess applies to all four grids simultaneously. After each guess, tiles change color: green means right letter, right spot; yellow signals right letter, wrong position; gray indicates the letter isn't in that particular word. One puzzle per day, shared by word game enthusiasts worldwide.
Created as a Wordle variant and now hosted by Merriam-Webster, Quordle has become the ultimate test for word puzzle veterans who want more challenge. Today's puzzle awaits with four words to conquer.
Today's Puzzle at a Glance
Thursday's puzzle opens with four first letters spanning L, E, W, and S. Vowel density is moderate, each word carries two vowels, with E appearing in all four answers. No double letters across the board, which simplifies elimination but demands precise positional reasoning. The words belong to different parts of speech, so pattern recognition across grids is your greatest ally.
Word 1 (Top-Left): Hints
The Vibe: Heavy. Burdened. A ship's hold after a long voyage.
The Category: Adjective describing something weighed down or encumbered.
The Boundaries: Starts with L, ends with N.
The Structure: Consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel-consonant. Two vowels sit in positions 2 and 4.
The Giveaway: What a cargo ship is after taking on its full load.
Word 2 (Top-Right): Hints
The Vibe: Forcible. Legal. Getting the boot.
The Category: Verb meaning to expel someone from a property, typically by legal process.
The Boundaries: Starts with E, ends with T.
The Structure: Vowel-consonant-vowel-consonant-consonant. Opens with a vowel, closes with a consonant pair.
The Giveaway: What a landlord does when the rent stops coming.
Word 3 (Bottom-Left): Hints
The Vibe: Crafted. Interlaced. Textile artistry.
The Structure: Consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel-consonant. The middle consonant is a V.
The Boundaries: Starts with W, ends with N.
The Category: Adjective (or past participle) describing fabric or material made by interlacing threads.
The Giveaway: What a tapestry is, threads crossed and locked into place.
Word 4 (Bottom-Right): Hints
The Vibe: Rustic. Administrative. Tolkien's countryside.
The Category: Noun referring to a British territorial division, or the idyllic land of hobbits.
The Boundaries: Starts with S, ends with E.
The Structure: Consonant-consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel. Begins with a consonant pair, ends with a vowel.
The Giveaway: A county in England, or the home Frodo Baggins left behind.
Quick-Reference Clues (All Four Words)
Word 1 First Letter: L | Last Letter: N
Word 2 First Letter: E | Last Letter: T
Word 3 First Letter: W | Last Letter: N
Word 4 First Letter: S | Last Letter: E
Today's Quordle Answers
Final warning: All four answers are directly below. Scroll only if you're ready.
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Word 1 (Top-Left): LADEN
Word 2 (Top-Right): EVICT
Word 3 (Bottom-Left): WOVEN
Word 4 (Bottom-Right): SHIRE
Word DNA: Breaking Down Today's Answers
LADEN, Adjective. Weighed down with a heavy load; burdened. From Old English hladan, meaning "to load," with roots stretching back to Proto-Germanic. The word carries both literal cargo and metaphorical weight.
EVICT, Verb. To expel someone from a property, typically by legal process. From Latin evincere, combining "ex" (out) and "vincere" (conquer). The legal sense solidified in English by the 16th century.
WOVEN, Adjective (past participle of weave). Made by interlacing threads or fibers. From Old English wefan, tracing to Proto-Indo-European webh- (to weave). One of the oldest craft words in the language.
SHIRE, Noun. A county or territorial division in the United Kingdom; also famously the pastoral homeland of hobbits in Tolkien's legendarium. From Old English scir, meaning "district" or "office." The word predates the Norman Conquest.
Difficulty Rating
Overall Difficulty: 3 / 5
Hardest Word: SHIRE, The consonant cluster S-H at the front and the less common -IRE ending can stall players who chase more obvious vowel patterns first.
Easiest Word: LADEN, Common vocabulary, predictable vowel placement, and a pattern that emerges quickly from solid openers.
Trap Factor: MEDIUM. WOVEN and EVICT share the V-E-N letter cluster in scrambled positions, which can mislead players into cross-contamination between grids.
This is a mid-difficulty Thursday puzzle. None of the words are obscure, but the mix of parts of speech, two adjectives, a verb, and a noun, demands that you pivot your thinking between quadrants. The lack of double letters simplifies elimination, but the shared E-in-position-2 across multiple words creates early ambiguity. Solid openers like CRANE or SLATE will reveal enough structure to break the logjam.
Strategic Insights
A vowel-heavy opener like AUDIO or ADIEU is your best bet here. Four of the five vowels appear across today's answers (A, E, I, O), and mapping them early will quickly differentiate WOVEN from LADEN and EVICT from SHIRE.
Pay close attention to the N endings. Three of today's four words, LADEN, WOVEN, and SHIRE, end with N or E, which means guessing a common suffix pattern (e.g., -EN, -ED) will yield high returns across multiple grids simultaneously.
Tomorrow's Reset
Tomorrow's puzzle drops at midnight. Did today's quartet catch you off guard, or did you sweep all four with guesses to spare? Either way, every Quordle sharpens your instincts for the next one.
See you at midnight for the next four-word challenge.
