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NYT Spelling Bee answers & analysis

DEOPUXN

Monday, November 3, 2025

Words
58
Points
265
Genius
185
Pangrams
2

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  • deepen

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • deepened

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • denude

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • denuded

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • depend

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • depended

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • done

    verb — (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.

    adjective — (of food) Ready, fully cooked.

    noun — A synthetic opioid analgesic, used to wean addicts off heroin or other opiate based narcotics, and in chronic pain management.

    verb — To perform; to execute.

    verb — To cause, make (someone) (do something).

    verb — To suffice.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • donee

    noun — Someone who receives a gift from a donor.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • donned

    verb — (clothing) To put on, to dress in.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • dune

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • dunned

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • dunno

    noun — An utterance of the word dunno.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • ended

    verb — To come to an end

    adjective — (in combination) Having (a specified kind or number of) ends.

    verb — To finish, terminate.

    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

  • endue

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • endued

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • expend

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  • expended

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  • expound

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  • expounded

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  • need

    noun — A requirement for something; something needed.

    verb — To have an absolute requirement for.

    noun — Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.

    verb — To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.

    verb — (modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something).

    verb — To be required; to be necessary.

    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

  • needed

    verb — To have an absolute requirement for.

    adjective — Necessary; being required.

    verb — To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.

    verb — (modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something).

    verb — To be required; to be necessary.

    verb — To be necessary (to someone).

    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

  • nene

    noun — The Hawaiian goose, Branta sandvicensis, which was designated the state bird of Hawaii in 1957.

    Appeared in 25 recorded puzzles.

  • neon

    noun — The chemical element (symbol Ne) with an atomic number of 10. The lightest of the noble gases, it is a colourless, odorless inert gas.

    adjective — (of a color) That resembles a neon light; extremely bright; fluorescent

    noun — A form or sample of the element.

    noun — Neon signs or lights, collectively.

    noun — A neon tetra fish.

    Appeared in 23 recorded puzzles.

  • nodded

    verb — To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.

    verb — To briefly incline the head downwards as a cursory greeting.

    verb — To sway, move up and down.

    verb — To gradually fall asleep.

    verb — To signify by a nod.

    verb — To make a mistake by being temporarily inattentive or tired

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • node

    noun — A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.

    noun — The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ☊ and ☋.

    noun — A leaf node.

    noun — A computer or other device attached to a network.

    noun — The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; — called also knot.

    noun — The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • none

    noun — A person without religious affiliation.

    adverb — To no extent, in no way.

    pronoun — Not any of a given number or group.

    noun — Those without any religious affiliation: atheists and others outside any organized religion.

    noun — A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.

    noun — The middle of the afternoon, normally between 2 and 4 pm.

    Appeared in 23 recorded puzzles.

  • noon

    noun — The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.

    verb — To relax or sleep around midday

    noun — The letter ن in the Arabic script.

    noun — Time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.

    noun — The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.

    noun — The highest point; culmination.

    Appeared in 44 recorded puzzles.

  • nope

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • noun

    noun — (grammar, narrow sense) A word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.

    verb — To convert a word to a noun.

    noun — (grammar, now rare, broad sense) Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun.

    Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

  • nude

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • odeon

    noun — An ancient Greek or Roman building used for performances of music and poetry.

    noun — A theatre or concert hall.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • open

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • opened

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  • oxen

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • peen

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    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • pend

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • pended

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • penne

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    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • penned

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • peon

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • pond

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • pone

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • pound

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  • pounded

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  • punned

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • udon

    noun — A Japanese wheat noodle

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • undo

    noun — An operation that reverses a previous action.

    verb — To reverse the effects of an action.

    verb — To unfasten.

    verb — To impoverish or ruin, as in reputation; to cause the downfall of.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • undone

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  • undue

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • unneeded

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • unopen

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • unopened

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  • unpen

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • unpenned

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • upend

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • upended

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • upon

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • xenon

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

expound is a perfect pangram — all seven letters, each used exactly once.

Hints, no spoilers

Words by first two letters

  • de×6
  • do×3
  • du×3
  • en×3
  • ex×4
  • ne×4
  • no×6
  • nu×1
  • od×1
  • op×2
  • ox×1
  • pe×6
  • po×4
  • pu×1
  • ud×1
  • un×8
  • up×3
  • xe×1

Words by first letter and length

456789Σ
d 22512· 12
e ·22111 7
n 9·2··· 11
o 211··· 4
p 5231·· 11
u 33213· 12
x ·1···· 1
Σ 211115461 58

The numbers

Genius today takes 185 points of 265 available. The average answer runs 5.4 letters.

Total points vs. all 418 recorded puzzles
75th percentile
Word count vs. all recorded puzzles
80th percentile

Word lengths, today vs. 18877 recorded answers

421 today34.5% all-time511 today23.0% all-time615 today20.0% all-time74 today12.0% all-time86 today6.3% all-time91 today2.6% all-time101.3% all-time110.3% all-time120.1% all-time130.0% all-time

History

Today's letters, last seen

LetterLast in a puzzleLast as center
d Saturday, November 1, 2025 Monday, October 27, 2025
e Sunday, November 2, 2025 Friday, September 19, 2025
n ● Saturday, November 1, 2025 Thursday, October 9, 2025
o Sunday, November 2, 2025 Wednesday, October 22, 2025
p Sunday, November 2, 2025 Friday, October 24, 2025
u Thursday, October 30, 2025 Thursday, September 25, 2025
x Wednesday, October 22, 2025 first recorded time

Most common answers, all recorded puzzles

  1. noon 44
  2. naan 33
  3. nana 33
  4. onion 31
  5. toot 30
  6. loll 29
  7. mama 27
  8. mamma 27
  9. nene 25
  10. cocoon 24
  11. acacia 24
  12. acai 24
  13. loon 24
  14. olio 24
  15. imam 23
  16. maim 23
  17. cancan 23
  18. canna 23
  19. mini 23
  20. minim 23
  21. neon 23
  22. none 23
  23. aria 22
  24. mitt 22
  25. onto 22

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.