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NYT Spelling Bee answers & analysis

ADGILNY

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Words
47
Points
271
Genius
189
Pangrams
2

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  • allay

    noun — Alleviation; abatement; check.

    verb — To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.

    noun — An alloy.

    verb — To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate.

    verb — To subside, abate, become peaceful.

    verb — To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate.

    Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.

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  • ally

    noun — A person, group, or state (etc) which is associated with another for a common cause; one united to another by treaty or common purpose; a confederate.

    verb — To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy.

    noun — A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots or buildings.

    noun — A glass marble or taw.

    noun — A person, group, concept (etc) which is associated with another as a helper; a supporter; an auxiliary.

    noun — Anything akin to something else by structure, etc.

    Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.

  • allying

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  • anally

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    Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

  • daddy

    noun — (usually childish) Father.

    verb — To father; to sire.

    noun — A male lover.

    noun — An informal term of address for a man.

    noun — A male juvenile delinquent in a reformatory who dominates the other inmates through threats and violence.

    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • daily

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • dally

    verb — To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle.

    noun — Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in roping.

    verb — To wind the lasso rope (ie throw-rope) around the saddle horn (the saddle horn is attached to the pommel of a western style saddle) after the roping of an animal

    verb — To caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet

    verb — To delay unnecessarily; to while away.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • dallying

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  • dandily

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • dandy

    noun — A man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance.

    adjective — Like a dandy, foppish.

    noun — A yawl, or a small after-sail on a yawl.

    noun — A dandy roller.

    adjective — Very good; better than expected but not as good as could be.

    adjective — Excellent; first-rate.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • dangly

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  • daylily

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • diddly

    noun — A small amount of no worth.

    interjection — A written representation of a trill sound.

    noun — (sometimes childish) penis

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • dilly

    adjective — Redolent of dill (the herb).

    noun — Someone or something that is remarkable or unusual.

    noun — A dilly bag.

    noun — A kind of stagecoach.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • dillydally

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • dillydallying

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  • dingy

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  • dyad

    noun — A set of two elements treated as one; a pair.

    noun — Any set of two different pitch classes.

    noun — A pair of things standing in particular relation; dyadic relation.

    noun — An element, atom, or radical having a valence or combining power of two.

    noun — A secondary unit of organisation consisting of an aggregate of monads.

    noun — A tensor of order two and rank one.

    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • dying

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  • gaily

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • gainly

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  • gangly

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  • gayly

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • giddily

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  • giddy

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  • giggly

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • gladly

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  • idly

    adverb — In an idle manner.

    adverb — Without specific purpose, intent or effort.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • idyl

    noun — Any poem or short written piece composed in the style of Theocritus' short pastoral poems, the Idylls.

    noun — An episode or series of events or circumstances of pastoral or rural simplicity, fit for an idyll; a carefree or lighthearted experience.

    noun — A composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character, e.g. Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • idyll

    noun — Any poem or short written piece composed in the style of Theocritus' short pastoral poems, the Idylls.

    noun — An episode or series of events or circumstances of pastoral or rural simplicity, fit for an idyll; a carefree or lighthearted experience.

    noun — A composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character, e.g. Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • illy

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    Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.

  • inlay

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    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • inlaying

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  • lady

    noun — An aristocratic title for a woman; the wife of a lord and/or a woman who holds the position in her own right; a title for a peeress, the wife of a peer or knight, and the daughters and daughters-in-law of certain peers.

    noun — The mistress of a household.

    noun — A high priestess.

    noun — A woman of breeding or higher class, a woman of authority.

    noun — The feminine of lord.

    noun — A title for someone married to a lord or gentleman.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • laggy

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • lallygag

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • lallygagging

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  • landlady

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • laying

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  • lily

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    Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.

  • lying

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  • naggy

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • nanny

    noun — A child's nurse.

    verb — To serve as a nanny.

    noun — A grandmother.

    noun — A godmother.

    noun — A female goat.

    verb — To treat like a nanny's charges; to coddle.

    Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

  • nannying

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • ninny

    noun — A silly or foolish person.

    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

  • yang

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

Hints, no spoilers

Words by first two letters

  • al×4
  • an×1
  • da×8
  • di×5
  • dy×2
  • ga×4
  • gi×3
  • gl×1
  • id×3
  • il×1
  • in×2
  • la×6
  • li×1
  • ly×1
  • na×3
  • ni×1
  • ya×1

Words by first letter and length

45678101213Σ
a 11111··· 5
d 172211·1 15
g ·341···· 8
i 32··1··· 6
l 221·2·1· 8
n ·3··1··· 4
y 1······· 1
Σ 818846111 47

The numbers

Genius today takes 189 points of 271 available. The average answer runs 6.0 letters.

Total points vs. all 434 recorded puzzles
76th percentile
Word count vs. all recorded puzzles
52nd percentile

Word lengths, today vs. 19635 recorded answers

48 today34.4% all-time518 today22.9% all-time68 today20.1% all-time74 today12.0% all-time86 today6.2% all-time92.6% all-time101 today1.2% all-time110.3% all-time121 today0.1% all-time131 today0.0% all-time

History

Today's letters, last seen

LetterLast in a puzzleLast as center
a Monday, November 10, 2025 Monday, November 10, 2025
d Thursday, November 6, 2025 Monday, October 27, 2025
g Saturday, November 8, 2025 Wednesday, September 3, 2025
i Monday, November 10, 2025 Tuesday, October 28, 2025
l Monday, November 10, 2025 Saturday, November 1, 2025
n Monday, November 10, 2025 Sunday, November 9, 2025
y ● Sunday, November 9, 2025 Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Most common answers, all recorded puzzles

  1. noon 45
  2. naan 35
  3. nana 35
  4. toot 32
  5. onion 31
  6. loll 30
  7. mama 28
  8. mamma 28
  9. nene 26
  10. acacia 25
  11. acai 25
  12. mini 25
  13. minim 25
  14. cocoon 24
  15. imam 24
  16. maim 24
  17. onto 24
  18. toon 24
  19. loon 24
  20. olio 24
  21. aria 23
  22. mitt 23
  23. cancan 23
  24. canna 23
  25. neon 23

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.