Quordle Hints and Answers Today, #1749 for Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026: Shared Letters Mapped

Quordle #1749 from Merriam-Webster is the puzzle for Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026. Four ordinary words make up the set, and one of them doubles a letter. Each word has its own clue below, and the answers wait at the bottom in a marked spoiler section.

Nine guesses cover all four boards, and the rules are on our Quordle page; today’s doubled letter makes the order of your guesses matter.

Clues for each word

Only one of the solutions we checked named board positions. So the words go by number, Word 1 to Word 4, in the same order as the answer list at the end.

Word 1

• Letters: five letters with a doubled vowel in the middle, and the last letter is the fourth in the alphabet.
• Meaning: an urge to take more than your share of money or food.

Word 2

• Letters: five letters that start with the 19th letter of the alphabet and finish on a vowel.
• Meaning: the line of bones that runs down your back.

Word 3

• Letters: five letters with a single vowel in the third spot, and a Y at the end.
• Meaning: hard and cold like rock, or showing no feeling at all.

Word 4

• Letters: five letters that open with a vowel and hold three vowels in all; the last letter is the 13th in the alphabet.
• Meaning: a drug made from the sap of a poppy.

Who shares letters with whom in set #1749

The set has 20 tiles but only 13 different letters. Each row counts the different letters two words share, with none named here.

Words	Letters in common
Word 1 and Word 2	1
Word 1 and Word 3	0
Word 1 and Word 4	0
Word 2 and Word 3	2
Word 2 and Word 4	2
Word 3 and Word 4	1

Vowel load runs 2, 2, 1 and 3 across Words 1 to 4, using only A, E, I, O and U. Word 3 gets its sound from a seventh letter that sometimes acts as a vowel. Six letters sit in two words each, seven letters sit in just one word, and no letter reaches three words. Word 1 is the loner. A hit there tells you almost nothing about Words 3 and 4, so spend an early guess on letters that Words 2, 3 and 4 have in common instead.

Keep score on the November 2026 printable calendar or the printable weekly calendar.

More of today’s puzzles: Wordle hints and Connections hints. Saturday’s set is on our Quordle #1748 page.

Today’s Quordle answers (spoilers)

Last chance to look away.

• Word 1: Greed
• Word 2: Spine
• Word 3: Stony
• Word 4: Opium

Greed is the only word with a repeated letter: its two E tiles sit side by side. E links Greed and Spine, S and N link Spine and Stony, P and I link Spine and Opium, and O links Stony and Opium. G, R, D, T, Y, U and M each appear once. Opium has three vowel letters, Greed and Spine have two, and Stony has one plus a Y. This page covers the daily Classic game; other Quordle modes use different answers. Board positions are left out, since only one of the solutions we checked printed them. The words match all three.