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NYT Spelling Bee answers & analysis

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Saturday, November 1, 2025

Words
67
Points
300
Genius
210
Pangrams
2

Official answers

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  • addle

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • addled

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • allele

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    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • anal

    adjective — Of a person, compulsive and stubborn, obsessed with neatness and accuracy, supposedly from not having progressed beyond the anal stage.

    adjective — Of, related to, intended for or involving the anus.

    adjective — Of the stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is alleged to be concentrated on the anal region.

    noun — Anal sex.

    noun — Any of the anal scales of a reptile.

    adjective — (of a vein) Proximate to the thorax.

    Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.

  • annal

    noun — The record of a single event or item.

    Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.

  • anneal

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    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

  • annealed

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • dale

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • dandle

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • dandled

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • deal

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • dell

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    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • elan

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    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

  • eland

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • enamel

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  • enameled

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  • halal

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • hale

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • hall

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • handheld

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  • handle

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  • handled

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  • headland

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  • heal

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • healed

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  • heel

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    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • heeled

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • held

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • hell

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    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • helm

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  • helmed

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  • lade

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • laded

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • laden

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • ladle

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • ladled

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • lama

    noun — A master of Tibetan Buddhism.

    noun — A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • lame

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • lamed

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  • land

    noun — The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.

    noun — Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected.

    noun — A country or region.

    verb — To descend to a surface, especially from the air.

    verb — To acquire; to secure.

    adjective — Of or relating to land.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • landed

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • lane

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    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

  • lead

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • leaded

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • leaden

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • lean

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    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

  • leaned

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • lede

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    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • lemma

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • lend

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    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

  • llama

    noun — A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • male

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • mall

    noun — A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.

    verb — To beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise

    noun — An enclosed shopping centre.

    noun — An alley where the game of pall mall was played.

    noun — A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade.

    noun — A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • mammal

    noun — An animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and feeding milk to its young.

    noun — A vertebrate with three bones in the inner ear and one in the jaw.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • mandala

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • manhandle

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  • manhandled

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  • meal

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • medal

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  • medaled

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  • meddle

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • meddled

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • meld

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • melded

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • melee

    noun — A noisy, confused or tumultuous fight, argument or scrap.

    noun — Any any confused, disorganised, disordered or chaotic situation.

    noun — A battle fought at close range; hand-to-hand combat; brawling.

    noun — Lively contention or debate, skirmish.

    verb — To physically hit in close quarters, as opposed to shooting, blowing up, or other ranged means of damage. Often refers to the usage of a hand-to-hand weapon.

    noun — A cavalry exercise in which two groups of riders try to cut paper plumes off the helmets of their opponents, the contest continuing until no member of one group retains his plume.

    Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

  • needle

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    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

  • needled

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    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

Hints, no spoilers

Words by first two letters

  • ad×2
  • al×1
  • an×4
  • da×3
  • de×2
  • el×2
  • en×2
  • ha×6
  • he×9
  • la×11
  • le×8
  • ll×1
  • ma×6
  • me×8
  • ne×2

Words by first letter and length

45678910Σ
a 123·1·· 7
d 3·11··· 5
e 111·1·· 4
h 71412·· 15
l 965···· 20
m 4233·11 14
n ··11··· 2
Σ 2512186411 67

The numbers

Genius today takes 210 points of 300 available. The average answer runs 5.4 letters.

Total points vs. all 380 recorded puzzles
86th percentile
Word count vs. all recorded puzzles
95th percentile

Word lengths, today vs. 17231 recorded answers

425 today34.6% all-time512 today22.8% all-time618 today19.9% all-time76 today12.1% all-time84 today6.3% all-time91 today2.6% all-time101 today1.2% all-time110.3% all-time120.1% all-time130.0% all-time

History

Today's letters, last seen

LetterLast in a puzzleLast as center
a Thursday, October 30, 2025 Thursday, October 23, 2025
d Wednesday, October 29, 2025 Monday, October 27, 2025
e Wednesday, October 29, 2025 Friday, September 19, 2025
h Friday, October 31, 2025 Monday, October 20, 2025
l ● Thursday, October 30, 2025 Wednesday, October 29, 2025
m Thursday, October 30, 2025 Sunday, October 26, 2025
n Friday, October 31, 2025 Thursday, October 9, 2025

Most common answers, all recorded puzzles

  1. noon 41
  2. naan 30
  3. nana 30
  4. onion 28
  5. toot 28
  6. loll 27
  7. mama 25
  8. mamma 25
  9. cocoon 23
  10. nene 23
  11. acacia 22
  12. acai 22
  13. bill 22
  14. loon 22
  15. aria 21
  16. onto 21
  17. toon 21
  18. cancan 21
  19. canna 21
  20. neon 21
  21. none 21
  22. olio 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.