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NYT Spelling Bee answers & analysis

AEINTYM

Sunday, October 26, 2025

Words
70
Points
301
Genius
210
Pangrams
2

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  • amen

    noun — An instance of saying ‘amen’.

    verb — To say amen.

    adverb — At the end of religious prayers: so be it.

    interjection — An expression of strong agreement. Often, though dated, in the phrase "Amen to that".

    noun — A title of Christ; the Faithful One (especially with reference to Revelation 3:14)

    verb — To say amen to; to ratify solemnly.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • amenity

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  • amity

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • anemia

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • anima

    noun — The soul or animating principle of a living thing, especially as contrasted with the animus.

    noun — (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) of a person that is in touch with the unconscious as opposed to the persona.

    noun — (Jungian psychology) The unconscious feminine aspect of a person.

    Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

  • animate

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  • anime

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • anytime

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  • attainment

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  • emanate

    verb — To come from a source; issue from.

    verb — To send or give out; manifest.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • eminent

    adjective — (of a person) distinguished, important, noteworthy.

    adjective — Noteworthy, remarkable, great.

    adjective — High, lofty.

    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • emit

    verb — To send out or give off

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • enema

    noun — An injection of fluid into the large intestine by way of the rectum, usually for medical purposes.

    noun — The fluid so injected.

    noun — A device for administering such an injection.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • enemy

    noun — Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.

    verb — To make an enemy of.

    adjective — Of, relating to, or belonging to an enemy

    noun — A hostile force or nation; a fighting member of such a force or nation.

    noun — Something harmful or threatening to another

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • enmity

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • imam

    noun — (usually capitalized) A Shi'ite Muslim leader.

    noun — One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.

    Appeared in 22 recorded puzzles.

  • imitate

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • imminent

    adjective — About to happen, occur, or take place very soon, especially of something which won't last long.

    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • inanimate

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  • inmate

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  • intimate

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  • item

    noun — A distinct physical object.

    noun — A line of text having a legal or other meaning; a separate particular in an account.

    noun — Two people who are having a relationship with each other.

    noun — A matter for discussion in an agenda.

    noun — (psychometrics) A question on a test, which may include its answers.

    noun — A short article in a newspaper.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • maim

    noun — A serious wound

    verb — To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.

    Appeared in 22 recorded puzzles.

  • main

    verb — Short for mainline.

    adjective — Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal.

    adverb — Exceedingly, extremely, greatly, mightily, very, very much.

    noun — That which is chief or principal; the chief or main portion; the bulk, the greater part, gross.

    noun — A hand or match in a game of dice.

    noun — A basket for gathering grapes.

    Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

  • maintain

    verb — To support (someone), to back up or assist (someone) in an action.

    verb — To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).

    verb — To declare or affirm (a clause) to be true; to assert.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • mama

    noun — (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

    Appeared in 26 recorded puzzles.

  • mamma

    noun — The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. (plural: mammae)

    noun — (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

    noun — An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera

    Appeared in 26 recorded puzzles.

  • manatee

    noun — Any of several plant-eating marine mammals, of family Trichechidae, found in tropical regions.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • mane

    noun — Longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion

    noun — Long or thick hair of a person's head.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • mania

    noun — Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.

    noun — Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.

    noun — The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.

    Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

  • manna

    noun — Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.

    noun — (by extension) Any boon which comes into one's hands by good luck.

    noun — The sugary sap of the manna gum tree which oozes out from holes drilled by insects and falls to the ground around the tree.http//www.museum.vic.gov.au/forest/plants/gum.html

    Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.

  • manta

    noun — A kind of fabric or blanket used in Latin America and southwestern United States.

    noun — Any of several very large pelagic rays of the genus Manta, with winglike pectoral fins, a long tail, and two fins resembling horns that project from the head.

    Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

  • many

    noun — A multitude; a great aggregate; a mass of people; the generality; the common herd.

    adjective — A large number of; numerous.

    pronoun — An indefinite large number of people or things.

    noun — A considerable number.

    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • mate

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    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • matey

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • matinee

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  • matte

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    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • mean

    verb — To lament.

    verb — To intend.

    adjective — Common; general.

    noun — (now chiefly in the plural) A method or course of action used to achieve some result.

    adjective — Having the mean (see noun below) as its value.

    verb — To convey (a meaning).

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • meanie

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • meant

    verb — To intend.

    verb — To convey (a meaning).

    verb — To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).

    verb — To cause or produce (a given result); to bring about (a given result).

    verb — (usually with to) To be of some level of importance.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • meantime

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  • meany

    noun — A mean (unkind or miserly) person; a killjoy.

    noun — A villain.

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • meat

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    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • meaty

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • meet

    verb — To make contact (with) while in proximity.

    verb — To make physical or perceptual contact.

    verb — To satisfy; to comply with.

    noun — A meeting.

    noun — A sports competition, especially for track and field (a track meet) or swimming (a swim meet).

    verb — (Of groups) To come together.

    Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

  • meme

    noun — Something, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, including quizzes, basic pictures, video templates etc.

    noun — A myth circulating as truth; something ineffective presented as effective, or similar.

    noun — Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.

    verb — To turn into a meme; to use a meme, especially to achieve something in real life.

    verb — To create and use humorous memes.

    verb — To joke around.

    Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.

  • mentee

    noun — A person who is being mentored

    Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

  • meta

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    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • mete

    verb — (usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.).

    verb — To measure.

    adjective — Suitable; right; proper.

    noun — A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere.

    Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

  • mien

    noun — Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.

    noun — A specific facial expression.

    Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

  • mime

    noun — A form of acting without words; pantomime.

    noun — A pantomime actor.

    verb — To act without words.

    verb — To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use of sound.

    verb — To mimic.

    noun — A person who mimics others in a comical manner.

    Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.

  • mine

    pronoun — My; belonging to me; that which belongs to me.

    noun — A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.

    noun — An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.

    noun — Any source of wealth or resources.

    verb — To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.

    noun — A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.

    Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

  • mini

    adjective — Miniature, tiny, small.

    noun — A miniskirt.

    noun — A minicomputer.

    Appeared in 22 recorded puzzles.

  • minim

    noun — A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.

    noun — Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.

    noun — A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.

    noun — A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.

    noun — A little man or being; a dwarf.

    noun — A small fish; a minnow.

    Appeared in 22 recorded puzzles.

  • minima

    noun — The lowest limit.

    noun — The smallest amount.

    noun — A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star).

    noun — A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.

    noun — The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution.

    Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

  • mint

    adjective — (with condition) Like new.

    noun — Any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems.

    noun — A mint-flavored candy, often eaten to sweeten the smell of the breath.

    noun — The flavouring of the plant, either a sweet, a jelly or sauce.

    noun — A large amount of money. A vast sum or amount, etc.

    noun — A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.

    Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.

  • minty

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • mite

    noun — Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acarina (aka Acari).

    noun — (sometimes used adverbially) Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle

    noun — (often used affectionately) A small or naughty person, or one you take pity on; rascal

    noun — A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing.

    noun — A lepton, a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ.

    noun — A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.

    Appeared in 9 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 21 recorded puzzles.

  • mitten

    noun — A type of glove or garment that covers a hand with a separate sheath for the thumb, but not for other fingers, which are either enclosed in a single section or left uncovered.

    noun — A cat's or dog's paw that is a different colour from the main body.

    verb — To dress in mittens; to put a mitten on.

    noun — (as "the mitten") A romantic rejection; dismissal of a lover.

    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • myna

    noun — One of the South and East Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae.

    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • name

    noun — Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.

    verb — (ditransitive) To give a name to.

    noun — Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.

    noun — Reputation.

    noun — An abusive or insulting epithet.

    noun — A person (or legal person).

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • tame

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    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • tatami

    noun — Straw matting, in a standard size, used as a floor covering in Japanese houses

    Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

  • team

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    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • teammate

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    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • teatime

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • teem

    verb — To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.

    verb — To be stocked to overflowing.

    verb — To pour (especially with rain)

    Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

  • tenement

    noun — A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.

    noun — Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned.

    noun — Dwelling; abode; habitation.

    Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

  • time

    noun — The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.

    noun — A duration of time.

    noun — The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.

    noun — An instant of time.

    verb — To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.

    verb — To choose when something begins or how long it lasts.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

amenity, anytime are perfect pangrams — all seven letters, each used exactly once.

Hints, no spoilers

Words by first two letters

  • am×3
  • an×5
  • at×1
  • em×3
  • en×3
  • im×3
  • in×3
  • it×1
  • ma×15
  • me×12
  • mi×11
  • my×1
  • na×1
  • ta×2
  • te×5
  • ti×1

Words by first letter and length

45678910Σ
a 1313··1 9
e 1212··· 6
i 2·1121· 7
m 2011422·· 39
n 1······ 1
t 4·112·· 8
Σ 291689611 70

The numbers

Genius today takes 210 points of 301 available. The average answer runs 5.3 letters.

Total points vs. all 408 recorded puzzles
86th percentile
Word count vs. all recorded puzzles
97th percentile

Word lengths, today vs. 18455 recorded answers

429 today34.5% all-time516 today22.9% all-time68 today19.9% all-time79 today12.0% all-time86 today6.3% all-time91 today2.6% all-time101 today1.3% all-time110.3% all-time120.1% all-time130.0% all-time

History

Today's letters, last seen

LetterLast in a puzzleLast as center
a Saturday, October 25, 2025 Thursday, October 23, 2025
e Saturday, October 25, 2025 Friday, September 19, 2025
i Friday, October 24, 2025 Tuesday, September 30, 2025
m ● Friday, October 24, 2025 Saturday, October 11, 2025
n Friday, October 24, 2025 Thursday, October 9, 2025
t Saturday, October 25, 2025 Sunday, October 19, 2025
y Tuesday, October 21, 2025 Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Most common answers, all recorded puzzles

  1. noon 43
  2. naan 32
  3. nana 32
  4. onion 31
  5. toot 29
  6. loll 29
  7. mama 26
  8. mamma 26
  9. nene 25
  10. acacia 24
  11. acai 24
  12. olio 24
  13. cocoon 23
  14. loon 23
  15. neon 23
  16. none 23
  17. aria 22
  18. imam 22
  19. maim 22
  20. cancan 22
  21. canna 22
  22. bill 22
  23. mini 22
  24. minim 22
  25. lilt 21

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.