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Quordle Classic hints and answers for Wednesday, January 14, 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. Wednesday'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 one vowel (O) and the letter O appears twice.

S _ _ _ P

SWOOP

Top-right board

Hint: This word uses one vowel (I) and no repeated letters.

F _ _ _ T

FIRST

Bottom-left board

Hint: This word uses one vowel (O) and no repeated letters.

G _ _ _ T

GHOST

Bottom-right board

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

A _ _ _ A

ALPHA

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.