Today's Quordle drops on Tuesday with a set that packs two easy openers and two traps waiting to burn your guesses. EBONY, AVOID, RODEO, and CUTIE look simple on paper, but shared vowels and sneaky letter placements will test your elimination game. With nine guesses to solve all four simultaneously, 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
Three of today's four answers start with vowels, and four different vowels appear across the set. No word repeats a letter internally. The trap? Two of these words share heavy thematic overlap, and one ends with a vowel you won't see coming in its position.
Word 1 (Top-Left)
The Vibe: Dark, rich, and deeply natural. Think polished wood and midnight tones.
The Category: Noun and adjective. A dense hardwood and the color associated with it.
The Boundaries: Starts with E, ends with Y.
The Structure: Vowel-consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel pattern. Two syllables, second syllable gets the stress.
The Giveaway: A black or dark-brown wood so dense it sinks in water, often used for piano keys and fine furniture.
Word 2 (Top-Right)
The Vibe: Strategic retreat. The smart move when confrontation isn't worth it.
The Category: Verb. To keep away from or steer clear of something.
The Boundaries: Starts with A, ends with D.
The Structure: Vowel-consonant-vowel-consonant-consonant. The first two letters form a common prefix meaning "away from."
The Giveaway: What you do with a pothole on the road, a toxic conversation, or your taxes until April 15th.
Word 3 (Bottom-Left)
The Vibe: Dust, denim, and bucking broncos. All-American western spectacle.
The Category: Noun. A competitive event featuring cowboys, roping, and bull riding.
The Boundaries: Starts with R, ends with O.
The Structure: Consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel-vowel. Ends with a double-vowel combo that's rare in English.
The Giveaway: An event where you'll see calf roping, barrel racing, and people trying not to get thrown off a bull.
Word 4 (Bottom-Right)
The Vibe: Playful affection. The word you use when "cute" isn't quite enough.
The Category: Noun (informal). An endearing term for someone attractive or charming.
The Boundaries: Starts with C, ends with E.
The Structure: Consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel-vowel. Short, bouncy, two syllables ending in a long E sound.
The Giveaway: A slang term for someone adorable, combining "cute" with a diminutive suffix that makes everything sound sweeter.
Quick-Reference Clues
Word 1 First Letter: E | Last Letter: Y
Word 2 First Letter: A | Last Letter: D
Word 3 First Letter: R | Last Letter: O
Word 4 First Letter: C | 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): EBONY
Word 2 (Top-Right): AVOID
Word 3 (Bottom-Left): RODEO
Word 4 (Bottom-Right): CUTIE
Word DNA
EBONY, Noun and adjective. A dense, dark hardwood from tropical trees of the genus Diospyros, also used to describe deep black color. From Latin ebenus, via Greek ebeninos, ultimately from Egyptian hbny.
AVOID, Verb. To keep away from, shun, or prevent something from happening. From Old French esvuidier, meaning "to empty out", literally making yourself empty of something by steering clear.
RODEO, Noun. A public exhibition of cowboy skills including bronco riding, roping, and bull riding. From Spanish rodear, meaning "to go around" or "to surround", originally a cattle roundup.
CUTIE, Noun (informal). An attractive or endearing person, or anything considered charmingly cute. A diminutive form of "cute," which itself is a shortened version of "acute" (meaning sharp or clever), which took a strange semantic detour into "adorable."
Difficulty Rating
Overall Difficulty: 2.5 / 5
Hardest Word: EBONY, the E-B-O-N-Y letter sequence doesn't follow common English patterns, and many players waste guesses on more obvious dark-color words like BLACK before landing here.
Easiest Word: AVOID, common vocabulary, predictable structure, and the A-O-I vowel pattern narrows options fast.
Trap Factor: MEDIUM. RODEO and CUTIE look like they belong to completely different difficulty tiers, but RODEO's O-E-O ending can fool players who expect a consonant closer.
This is a Tuesday-friendly set with one curveball. EBONY is the word most likely to eat extra guesses, it's not obscure, but it sits just outside the most common five-letter vocabulary. AVOID and CUTIE should fall quickly. RODEO is straightforward if you catch the vowel ending early. Clean sweep in six or seven guesses is realistic for experienced players.
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.
