Quordle · Hints and answers

Quordle Classic hints and answers for Wednesday, January 21, 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: only one of the four answers repeats 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 (I) and no repeated letters.

P _ _ _ Y

PRIVY

Top-right board

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

S _ _ _ Y

SHADY

Bottom-left board

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

R _ _ _ T

REMIT

Bottom-right board

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

A _ _ _ A

AORTA

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.