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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allaying
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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.
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allying
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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.
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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.
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dallying
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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.
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dangly
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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.
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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.
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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.
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dying
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gainly
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gangly
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giddily
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giddy
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gladly
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idly
adverb — In an idle manner.
adverb — Without specific purpose, intent or effort.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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lallygagging
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laying
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lying
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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.
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ninny
noun — A silly or foolish person.
Appeared in 7 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
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 13 | Σ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | · | · | · | 5 |
| d | 1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | · | 1 | 15 |
| g | · | 3 | 4 | 1 | · | · | · | · | 8 |
| i | 3 | 2 | · | · | 1 | · | · | · | 6 |
| l | 2 | 2 | 1 | · | 2 | · | 1 | · | 8 |
| n | · | 3 | · | · | 1 | · | · | · | 4 |
| y | 1 | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | 1 |
| Σ | 8 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 47 |
The numbers
Genius today takes 189 points of 271 available. The average answer runs 6.0 letters.
Word lengths, today vs. 19635 recorded answers
History
Today's letters, last seen
| Letter | Last in a puzzle | Last 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
- noon 45
- naan 35
- nana 35
- toot 32
- onion 31
- loll 30
- mama 28
- mamma 28
- nene 26
- acacia 25
- acai 25
- mini 25
- minim 25
- cocoon 24
- imam 24
- maim 24
- onto 24
- toon 24
- loon 24
- olio 24
- aria 23
- mitt 23
- cancan 23
- canna 23
- 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.
- agly
- alanyl
- aliya
- allyl
- ayin
- didy
- dingily
- gallingly
- gally
- gallying
- gayal
- giddying
- gigglingly
- gilly
- gillying
- ginny
- glady
- indignly
- inly
- lindy
- lingy
- liny
- lyingly
- naggingly
- nigglingly
- nyala
- yagi
- yald
- yill