Daily Quordle #1696

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Board 12 vowels
Hint 1 · first and last letter

Starts with S and ends with R.

Hint 2 · what it means

A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or an…

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Also an answer 2 times before; last on #1145 (Mar 14, 2025).

Board 22 vowels
Hint 1 · first and last letter

Starts with P and ends with E.

Hint 2 · what it means

The cost required to gain possession of something.

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Also an answer 3 times before; last on #746 (Feb 9, 2024).

Board 31 vowel
Hint 1 · first and last letter

Starts with B and ends with T.

Hint 2 · what it means

A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.

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Also an answer 4 times before; last on #1088 (Jan 16, 2025).

Board 41 vowel
Hint 1 · first and last letter

Starts with F and ends with Y.

Hint 2 · what it means

A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of f…

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Also an answer 2 times before; last on #599 (Sep 15, 2023).

Quordle #1696 at a glance

Wednesday, September 16, 2026 was Daily Quordle #1696. None of the four words was new to Quordle that day; together they used 15 different letters; no word repeated a 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.

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Quordle #1696 FAQ

What were the Quordle answers on September 16, 2026?

Daily Quordle #1696 (September 16, 2026) was SPEAR, PRICE, BLUNT and FISHY.

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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