Quordle · Hints and answers

Quordle Classic hints and answers for Monday, January 5, 2026

Merriam-Webster Quordle · Classic mode · 4 boards at once · 9 guesses · Spoiler-free until you choose otherwise

Four boards, nine guesses, and one set of letters doing duty everywhere at once. Monday's Classic set is a mixed one: two of the four answers repeat a letter. Each board below gets a hint first, then its first and last letters, then the answer - take only as much help as you need.

Top-left board

Hint: This word uses two vowels (O, E) and no repeated letters.

O _ _ _ R

OWNER

Top-right board

Hint: This word uses two vowels (I, A) and the letter L appears twice.

V _ _ _ A

VILLA

Bottom-left board

Hint: This word uses two vowels (E, A) and no repeated letters.

B _ _ _ D

BEARD

Bottom-right board

Hint: This word uses one vowel (E) and the letter E appears twice.

M _ _ _ R

METER

How Quordle works

Quordle is four Wordle boards played at once: every guess lands on all four boards, and you have nine guesses to clear them all. This page covers Classic mode only - Quordle's Chill, Extreme and Sequence modes run different answers on the same day. One scheduling note: Quordle deals its new puzzle at midnight in your own time zone, not at a single worldwide moment, so your puzzle date is your local date.