Quordle Classic hints and answers for Thursday, May 21, 2026
Four boards, nine guesses, and one set of letters doing duty everywhere at once. Thursday'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 (A) and no repeated letters.
R _ _ _ H
RANCH
Top-right board
Hint: This word uses two vowels (O, E) and the letter T appears twice.
O _ _ _ R
OTTER
Bottom-left board
Hint: This word uses one vowel (E) and no repeated letters.
W _ _ _ T
WREST
Bottom-right board
Hint: This word uses two vowels (I, A) and the letter I appears twice.
I _ _ _ C
ILIAC
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.