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Quordle #38 (November 9, 2026): answers, best opener and a solver line

The four words from Monday, November 9, 2026. Play it first; the answers are folded below. Replays don't affect your streak.

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Quordle #38 was the set of 4 words for Monday, November 9, 2026. E (2 boards), M (2 boards), O (2 boards), S (2 boards) and T (2 boards) appear in more than one answer, so a guess that places them earns colour on several boards at once. TENSE and MAMBO repeat a letter, the kind of word that hides from a one-letter-per-slot habit. Of five common openers, STARE leaves the smallest total field here: 261 possible answers across the 4 boards after one guess, against 530 for CRANE. A plain solver that opens with it and then always guesses the likeliest word on the tightest board finishes in 7 guesses (9 allowed).

Quordle #38 in numbers

Boards4
Letters shared by two or more answers5
Answers with a repeated letter2
Vowels per answer2 · 2 · 2 · 2
Best of five openersSTARE: 1 green, 7 yellow, 261 candidates left
Solver line7 guesses of 9

Which opener works best on Quordle #38?

For each opener: greens and yellows it would earn across the 4 boards, and how many answers would still fit each board afterwards (smaller is better).

OpenerGreenYellowCandidates left per boardTotal
STARE17117 · 3 · 124 · 17261
SLATE16163 · 4 · 133 · 24324
CRATE15111 · 20 · 123 · 90344
TRACE24111 · 11 · 123 · 112357
CRANE14120 · 21 · 132 · 257530
A 7-guess solver line for Quordle #38

Guess 1 is the best opener above; each later guess is the first remaining candidate on the board with the fewest candidates. Boards are numbered 1–2 top, 3–4 bottom.

  1. STARE: opener, 261 candidates left in all.

  2. TENSE for board 2 (3 candidates left) — solves board 2.

  3. BOOST for board 4 (8 candidates left).

  4. MAMBO for board 3 (only one candidate left) — solves board 3.

  5. DEMUR for board 1 (4 candidates left).

  6. FEMUR for board 1 (2 candidates left) — solves board 1.

  7. HOIST for board 4 (2 candidates left) — solves board 4.

Boards solved at guess 6, 2, 4, 7.

Quordle #38 answers

Show the four words

Board 1: FEMUR · Board 2: TENSE · Board 3: MAMBO · Board 4: HOIST

FEMUR TENSE MAMBO HOIST

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