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NYT Spelling Bee answers & analysis

ACDIMNO

Thursday, November 13, 2025

Words
58
Points
271
Genius
189
Pangram
1

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  • amino

    noun — The amine functional group.

    adjective — Relating to an amine.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • ammo

    noun — Ammunition.

    verb — To load up on ammunition.

    Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

  • ammonia

    noun — A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste.

    noun — A solution of this compound in water used domestically as a cleaning fluid.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • amnio

    noun — Amniocentesis

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • anaconda

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • anion

    noun — A negatively charged ion.

    Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

  • anon

    noun — An anonymous person, especially an author.

    adverb — Straight away; at once.

    adverb — Soon; in a little while.

    adverb — At another time; then; again.

    adjective — Anonymous

    noun — A work with an unknown author.

    Appeared in 22 recorded puzzles.

  • cacao

    noun — A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.

    noun — This tree's seed, the cocoa bean.

    Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.

  • camo

    noun — A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.

    verb — To camouflage.

    noun — Clothes made from camouflage fabric, for concealment in combat or hunting.

    verb — To put on camouflage clothing.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • cannon

    noun — A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar. It may include muzzle appendages.

    verb — To bombard with cannons.

    noun — A generally accepted principle; a rule.

    noun — A clergy member serving a cathedral or collegiate church.

    noun — A Near Eastern and Caucasian musical instrument related to the zither, dulcimer, or harp having either 26 strings and a single bridge, or twice that number and two bridges.

    noun — Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.

    Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

  • canon

    noun — A generally accepted principle; a rule.

    noun — A clergy member serving a cathedral or collegiate church.

    noun — A Near Eastern and Caucasian musical instrument related to the zither, dulcimer, or harp having either 26 strings and a single bridge, or twice that number and two bridges.

    noun — A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.

    noun — The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.

    noun — A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.

    Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

  • canonic

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • ciao

    noun — A greeting or farewell using the word "ciao".

    interjection — Hello, hi.

    interjection — Bye, goodbye.

    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

  • cinnamon

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • coca

    noun — Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.

    noun — A pastry typically made and consumed in the Spanish Mediterranean coast.

    noun — The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (Erythroxylum coca), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine.

    Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.

  • cocci

    noun — Any approximately spherical bacterium.

    noun — Coccidioidomycosis

    noun — One of the carpels or seed-vessels of a dry fruit.

    Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.

  • cocoa

    noun — The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.

    adjective — Of a light to medium brown colour, like that of cocoa powder.

    noun — Coconut palm.

    noun — An unsweetened brown powder made from roasted, ground cocoa beans, used in making chocolate, and in cooking.

    noun — A hot drink made with milk, cocoa powder, and sugar.

    noun — A serving of this drink.

    Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.

  • cocoon

    noun — The silky protective case spun by the larvae of some insects in which they metamorphose, the pupa.

    verb — To envelop in a protective case

    noun — Any similar protective case, whether real or metaphorical.

    verb — To withdraw into such a case.

    Appeared in 24 recorded puzzles.

  • coda

    noun — A person born hearing to deaf parents.

    noun — A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.

    noun — The optional final part of a syllable, placed after its nucleus, and usually composed of one or more consonants.

    noun — In seismograms, the gradual return to baseline after a seismic event. The length of the coda can be used to estimate event magnitude, and the shape sometimes reveals details of subsurface structures.

    noun — A conclusion (of a statement or event, for example), final portion, tail end.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • codon

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • coin

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    Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.

  • coma

    noun — A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.

    noun — A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.

    noun — A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that in an ideal image would appear as points.

    noun — A tuft or bunch, such as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree, a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant, or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • comic

    noun — A comedian.

    adjective — Funny; amusing; comical.

    noun — A story composed of cartoon images arranged in sequence, usually with textual captions; a graphic novel.

    noun — A children's newspaper.

    adjective — Relating to comedy.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • comma

    noun — The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.

    verb — To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas.

    noun — A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.

    noun — Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.

    noun — A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.

    noun — A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • command

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  • commando

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  • common

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    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • condo

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • condom

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • conic

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    Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.

  • diamond

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • dino

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    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • dodo

    noun — A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius.

    noun — A person or organisation which is very old or has very old-fashioned views or is not willing to change and adapt.

    noun — Fried plantain.

    Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.

  • domain

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • dominion

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • domino

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • doodad

    noun — A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall); especially an unspecified gadget, device, or part.

    Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

  • doom

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • icon

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    Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.

  • iconic

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    Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.

  • idiom

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • ionic

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    Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.

  • mammon

    noun — The desire for wealth personified as an evil spirit or a malign influence.

    noun — Often mammon: wealth, material avarice, profit.

    Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

  • minion

    noun — The lowest limit.

    noun — A loyal servant of another, usually a more powerful being.

    adjective — Favoured, beloved; "pet".

    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.

    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • moan

    noun — A low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure

    verb — To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn.

    verb — To grieve.

    verb — To distress (someone); to sadden.

    verb — To make a moan or similar sound.

    verb — To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice.

    Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

  • momma

    noun — Mother

    noun — A voluptuous woman.

    noun — One's wife or girlfriend.

    Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

  • monad

    noun — An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.

    noun — A single individual (such as a pollen grain) that is free from others, not united in a group.

    noun — A monoid object in the category of endofunctors of a fixed category.

    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • mondo

    noun — A dialogue between master and student designed to obtain an intuitive truth.

    adjective — Big, large; major, significant.

    adverb — Very, extremely, really.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • mono

    noun — A viral infection marked by extreme fatigue, high fever, and swollen lymph nodes.

    noun — A bicycle or motorcycle trick where the front wheel is lifted off the ground while riding

    adjective — Monaural or monophonic; having only a single audio channel.

    adjective — Monochrome.

    noun — An injective homomorphism

    noun — A monogamous person.

    Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.

  • monomania

    noun — Excessive interest or concentration on a singular object or subject.

    noun — A pathological obsession with one person, thing or idea.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • monomaniac

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • mood

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • moon

    proper noun — The Earth's moon Luna; the sole natural satellite of the Earth, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☾.

    noun — (by extension of Moon) Any natural satellite of a planet.

    verb — To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest.

    proper noun — The god of the Moon in Heathenry.

    proper noun — A surname.

    proper noun — The 54th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

    Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.

  • nomad

    noun — A member of a society or class who herd animals from pasture to pasture with no fixed home.

    adjective — Of or relating to nomads, whether

    noun — One who wanders, who travels aimlessly.

    noun — A person who changes residence frequently.

    noun — A player who changes teams frequently.

    noun — Any of various far-migrating nymphalid butterflies of the genus Danaus.

    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • nomadic

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  • noncom

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    Appeared in 6 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 45 recorded puzzles.

  • onion

    noun — A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.

    noun — The bulb of such a plant.

    noun — The genus as a whole.

    noun — A ball.

    noun — A person from Bermuda or of Bermudian descent.

    Appeared in 31 recorded puzzles.

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

Hints, no spoilers

Words by first two letters

  • am×4
  • an×3
  • ca×5
  • ci×2
  • co×16
  • di×2
  • do×6
  • ic×2
  • id×1
  • io×1
  • ma×1
  • mi×1
  • mo×9
  • no×4
  • on×1

Words by first letter and length

45678910Σ
a 23·11·· 7
c 69422·· 23
d 3·311·· 8
i 121···· 4
m 432··11 11
n 1111··· 4
o ·1····· 1
Σ 1719115411 58

The numbers

Genius today takes 189 points of 271 available. The average answer runs 5.4 letters.

Total points vs. all 421 recorded puzzles
77th percentile
Word count vs. all recorded puzzles
80th percentile

Word lengths, today vs. 19028 recorded answers

417 today34.4% all-time519 today23.0% all-time611 today20.0% all-time75 today12.0% all-time84 today6.2% 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 Wednesday, November 12, 2025 Monday, November 10, 2025
c Sunday, November 9, 2025 Tuesday, September 16, 2025
d Tuesday, November 11, 2025 Monday, October 27, 2025
i Wednesday, November 12, 2025 Wednesday, November 12, 2025
m Friday, November 7, 2025 Sunday, October 26, 2025
n Wednesday, November 12, 2025 Sunday, November 9, 2025
o ● Monday, November 10, 2025 Saturday, November 8, 2025

Most common answers, all recorded puzzles

  1. noon 45
  2. naan 34
  3. nana 34
  4. onion 31
  5. toot 30
  6. loll 29
  7. mama 27
  8. mamma 27
  9. acacia 25
  10. acai 25
  11. nene 25
  12. cocoon 24
  13. mini 24
  14. minim 24
  15. loon 24
  16. olio 24
  17. aria 23
  18. imam 23
  19. maim 23
  20. mitt 23
  21. onto 23
  22. toon 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.