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NYT Spelling Bee answers & analysis

CDIMOYT

Monday, October 13, 2025

Words
23
Points
104
Genius
72
Pangram
1

Official answers

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  • city

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • comity

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  • commit

    noun — The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository), making it a permanent change.

    verb — To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.

    verb — To put in charge of a jailer; to imprison.

    verb — To have (a person) enter an establishment, such as a hospital or asylum, as a patient.

    verb — To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.

    verb — To join a contest; to match; followed by with.

    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • commodity

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  • coot

    noun — Any of various aquatic birds of the genus Fulica that are mainly black with a prominent frontal shield on the forehead.

    noun — A foolish or eccentric fellow

    noun — (with the) A success; something excellent.

    noun — Body louse (Pediculus humanus).

    Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

  • dimity

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  • ditto

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    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

  • ditty

    noun — A short verse or tune.

    verb — To sing; to warble a little tune.

    noun — A saying or utterance, especially one that is short and frequently repeated.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • dotty

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • idiot

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    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

  • idiotic

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • itty

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    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

  • mitt

    noun — An oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt.

    noun — A mitten

    noun — (especially in plural) A hand.

    Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.

  • moot

    noun — A moot court.

    adjective — Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.

    noun — A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.

    verb — To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.

    noun — Vagina.

    noun — The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.

    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • motto

    noun — A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement.

    noun — A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim.

    noun — A paper packet containing a sweetmeat, cracker, etc., together with a scrap of paper bearing a motto.

    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • oddity

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • omit

    verb — To leave out or exclude.

    verb — To fail to perform.

    verb — To neglect or take no notice of.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • tidy

    noun — A tabletop container for pens and stationery.

    verb — To make tidy; to neaten.

    adjective — Arranged neatly and in order.

    interjection — Expression of positive agreement, usually in reply to a question.

    noun — A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of a sofa, etc.

    noun — A child's pinafore.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • timid

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • timidity

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  • toddy

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • tomtit

    noun — Petroica macrocephala, the miromiro or New Zealand tit, a bird of the Petroicidae (Australasian robin) family.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • toot

    noun — The noise of a horn or whistle.

    verb — To stand out, or be prominent.

    noun — A toilet.

    noun — (by extension) A fart; flatus.

    noun — Cocaine.

    noun — A portion of cocaine that a person snorts.

    Appeared in 28 recorded puzzles.

Hints, no spoilers

Words by first two letters

  • ci×1
  • co×4
  • di×3
  • do×1
  • id×2
  • it×1
  • mi×1
  • mo×2
  • od×1
  • om×1
  • ti×3
  • to×3

Words by first letter and length

456789Σ
c 2·2··1 5
d ·31··· 4
i 11·1·· 3
m 21···· 3
o 1·1··· 2
t 221·1· 6
Σ 875111 23

The numbers

Genius today takes 72 points of 104 available. The average answer runs 5.3 letters.

Total points vs. all 382 recorded puzzles
7th percentile
Word count vs. all recorded puzzles
3rd percentile

Word lengths, today vs. 17315 recorded answers

48 today34.6% all-time57 today22.8% all-time65 today19.9% all-time71 today12.1% all-time81 today6.3% all-time91 today2.6% all-time101.2% all-time110.3% all-time120.1% all-time130.0% all-time

History

Today's letters, last seen

LetterLast in a puzzleLast as center
c Sunday, October 12, 2025 Tuesday, September 16, 2025
d Wednesday, October 8, 2025 Monday, September 22, 2025
i Sunday, October 12, 2025 Tuesday, September 30, 2025
m Saturday, October 11, 2025 Saturday, October 11, 2025
o Saturday, October 11, 2025 Sunday, September 28, 2025
t ● Sunday, October 12, 2025 Thursday, October 2, 2025
y Friday, October 10, 2025 first recorded time

Most common answers, all recorded puzzles

  1. noon 42
  2. naan 30
  3. nana 30
  4. onion 29
  5. toot 28
  6. loll 28
  7. mama 25
  8. mamma 25
  9. cocoon 23
  10. loon 23
  11. nene 23
  12. acacia 22
  13. acai 22
  14. bill 22
  15. neon 22
  16. none 22
  17. olio 22
  18. aria 21
  19. onto 21
  20. toon 21
  21. cancan 21
  22. canna 21
  23. lilt 20
  24. till 20
  25. tilt 20

Valid words the Bee rejected

Dictionary words the Bee never takes

Legitimate words (per the ENABLE list) that fit the letters but aren't official answers — usually judged too obscure.