Quordle #1661 Answers
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Hint 1 · first and last letter
Starts with H and ends with Y.
Hint 2 · what it means
With great amounts of heat
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Also an answer 3 times before; last on #773 (Mar 7, 2024).
Hint 1 · first and last letter
Starts with C and ends with D.
Hint 2 · what it means
A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
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Also an answer 4 times before; last on #1254 (Jul 1, 2025).
Hint 1 · first and last letter
Starts with H and ends with T.
Hint 2 · what it means
A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be…
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Also an answer 3 times before; last on #1038 (Nov 27, 2024).
Hint 1 · first and last letter
Starts with S and ends with H.
Hint 2 · what it means
The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken
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Also an answer 2 times before; last on #738 (Feb 1, 2024).
Quordle #1661 at a glance
Wednesday, August 12, 2026 was Daily Quordle #1661. None of the four words was new to Quordle that day; together they used 12 different letters; one word has a repeated letter; none of Q, Z, X or J appeared. Quordle draws its daily words from the same list of about 2,300 common five-letter words every day, so most words come back now and then: a typical word returns after roughly nine months.
The days before
- Aug 11, 2026 #1660 ONSET · BRAWL · TEPID · SLANG
- Aug 10, 2026 #1659 GAVEL · CRUSH · SPEED · ETHOS
- Aug 9, 2026 #1658 KAPPA · WIDEN · FOLIO · STEEP
- Aug 8, 2026 #1657 FUROR · BUGLE · REUSE · SCOOP
- Aug 7, 2026 #1656 AMISS · SHIRK · SALSA · RABBI
Those days' answers are shown in full.
Quordle #1661 FAQ
What were the Quordle answers on August 12, 2026?
Daily Quordle #1661 (August 12, 2026) was HOTLY, CROWD, HEART and SWASH.
How are Daily Quordle puzzles numbered?
Puzzle #1 was January 25, 2022, and the number goes up by one every day. It is the same number the game puts in its share text ("Daily Quordle 1753").
When does a new Quordle come out?
At midnight in your own time zone, so players in different countries move on at different moments. Dates on this site follow US Eastern time.
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Unofficial guide — not affiliated with or endorsed by Merriam-Webster or Quordle. Answers are worked out from the game's own daily word selection and checked against published answers.