Quordle #1726 Answers
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Hint 1 · first and last letter
Starts with S and ends with T.
Hint 2 · what it means
A ___ circuit.
Reveal board 1
Also an answer 4 times before; last on #1144 (Mar 13, 2025).
Hint 1 · first and last letter
Starts with W and ends with H.
Hint 2 · what it means
Merit, excellence.
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Also an answer 2 times before; last on #1629 (Jul 11, 2026).
Hint 1 · first and last letter
Starts with J and ends with T.
Hint 2 · what it means
A piece of timber laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the f…
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Also an answer 3 times before; last on #1703 (Sep 23, 2026).
Hint 1 · first and last letter
Starts with S and ends with K.
Hint 2 · what it means
An animal, especially a calf, born prematurely or abortively.
Reveal board 4
Also an answer 2 times before; last on #479 (May 18, 2023).
Quordle #1726 at a glance
Friday, October 16, 2026 was Daily Quordle #1726. None of the four words was new to Quordle that day; together they used 12 different letters; no word repeated a letter; the rare letters Q, Z, X and J turned up in JOIST. 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
- Oct 15, 2026 #1725 STALE · EPOCH · PIANO · CORNY
- Oct 14, 2026 #1724 TIMID · GROUP · GRILL · EVERY
- Oct 13, 2026 #1723 FLUFF · DEBUT · TEETH · STEIN
- Oct 12, 2026 #1722 HELLO · BELOW · RIGHT · SLANT
- Oct 11, 2026 #1721 LILAC · INLET · TRIAD · SHAPE
Those days' answers are shown in full.
Quordle #1726 FAQ
What were the Quordle answers on October 16, 2026?
Daily Quordle #1726 (October 16, 2026) was SHORT, WORTH, JOIST and SLUNK.
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.