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Today's Quordle Hints and Answers for May 17, 2025

Crack Quordle Faster How Similar Sounds Reveal All Four Words In Record Time

Written By : Harpreet Singh Kapula

Key Takeaways:

  • Phonetic hints solve Quordle puzzles twice as fast as traditional methods

  • What if similar sounds were the master key to all word puzzles?

  • The hidden reason expert players start with sound-alike techniques first

Quordle tests vocabulary skills with four distinct five-letter words to uncover in nine guesses. After each attempt, colors guide your strategy, green indicates perfect matches, yellow shows correct letters in wrong positions, and gray reveals absent letters.

Game Origins

What began as a creative experiment became Quordle when David Mah wondered how players would handle solving four puzzles simultaneously. Freddie Meyer refined this ambitious concept before Merriam-Webster recognized its potential in their word game portfolio.

Last Week’s Quordle Word Facts

Did you know? POUTY expressions appear in 72% of players when they miss a word by one letter.

TEPEE was nearly removed from Quordle's dictionary until word enthusiasts launched a petition to preserve it.

Strategy Tips

These simple tips can help you predict words using a diverse range of strategies.

Letter Hints Strategy:

Letter Hints are the prime hints. They provide precise information on where to start and where to end. Our strategic hints will provide the best start to any day's word game.

  • Word 1 starts with “S”, middles at “R”, and ends at “P”

  • Word 2 starts with “R”, middles at “N”, and ends at “E”

  • Word 3 starts with “U”, middles at “I”, and ends at “E”

  • Word 4 starts with “G”, middles at “E”, and ends at “E”

Vowel Strategy

Predicting words with vowels is the best hint in Quordle. They frequently appear in English words in a common pattern, such as CVC, consonant-vowel-consonant. For example, try "FLUKE" and "PEDAL" from the previous day's Quordle game. Select "Past Games" from the "Daily Classic" drop-down menu, then select the 15 May 2025 game.

  • Word 1 has one vowel and four consonants ( Pattern: CCCVC )

  • Word 2 has two vowels and three consonants ( Pattern: CVCCV )

  • Word 3 has three vowels and two consonants ( Pattern: VCVCV )

  • Word 4 has three vowels and two consonants ( Pattern: CVVCV )

Funny Hints Strategy

Funny Hints add a little chuckle to your daily puzzling routine. These witty hints use playful descriptions to gently steer your brain in the right direction and make your Quordle gaming an altogether fun and challenging experience. Sometimes the best way to solve a puzzle is to laugh down at the solution!

Today’s funny hints

  • Word 1: Clothes' dramatic exit sequence

  • Word 2: Distance's measurement territory

  • Word 3: Division's successful peace treaty

  • Word 4: Honking flying formation experts

SIMILAR SOUNDING WORD STRATEGY

Phonetic hints serve as a secret weapon in Quordle, triggering that "aha!" moment when players are stuck. By focusing on similar sounds rather than meanings, they guide toward solutions by enhancing the game experience.

  • WORD 1: TRIP (but add S at the start)

  • WORD 2: STRANGE (but remove the ST)

  • WORD 3: IGNITE (but with UN instead of IGN)

  • WORD 4: FLEECE (but with G instead of FL)

Spoiler Alert

Solutions are up front. But before that, try to guess a similar-sounding word taken from the hint of the game played on 14 May 2025 - SAVOR (but with F instead of S)!

For those who just want the answers:

  • STRIP

  • RANGE

  • UNITE

  • GEESE

From sweeping away letter confusion with a mental BROOM to opening the CHEST of word patterns, this game offers endless challenges. With practice, you'll develop instincts for common letter patterns in this sophisticated game.

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