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NYT Spelling Bee answers & analysis

EGINOTM

Saturday, November 15, 2025

Words
65
Points
327
Genius
228
Pangrams
3

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  • eminent

    adjective — (of a person) distinguished, important, noteworthy.

    adjective — Noteworthy, remarkable, great.

    adjective — High, lofty.

    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • emit

    verb — To send out or give off

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • emitting

    verb — To send out or give off

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • emote

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • emoting

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  • emotion

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • genome

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • gimme

    noun — That which is easily obtained, or certain to occur.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • gnome

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • imminent

    adjective — About to happen, occur, or take place very soon, especially of something which won't last long.

    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • item

    noun — A distinct physical object.

    noun — A line of text having a legal or other meaning; a separate particular in an account.

    noun — Two people who are having a relationship with each other.

    noun — A matter for discussion in an agenda.

    noun — (psychometrics) A question on a test, which may include its answers.

    noun — A short article in a newspaper.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • meet

    verb — To make contact (with) while in proximity.

    verb — To make physical or perceptual contact.

    verb — To satisfy; to comply with.

    noun — A meeting.

    noun — A sports competition, especially for track and field (a track meet) or swimming (a swim meet).

    verb — (Of groups) To come together.

    Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

  • meeting

    noun — A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.

    noun — (gerund) The act of persons or things that meet.

    noun — An encounter between people, even accidental.

    noun — (collective) The people at such a gathering.

    noun — A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.

    noun — A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • meme

    noun — Something, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, including quizzes, basic pictures, video templates etc.

    noun — A myth circulating as truth; something ineffective presented as effective, or similar.

    noun — Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.

    verb — To turn into a meme; to use a meme, especially to achieve something in real life.

    verb — To create and use humorous memes.

    verb — To joke around.

    Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

  • memento

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • meming

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • memo

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • mentee

    noun — A person who is being mentored

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • mention

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • mentioning

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  • mete

    verb — (usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.).

    verb — To measure.

    adjective — Suitable; right; proper.

    noun — A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere.

    Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

  • meting

    verb — (usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.).

    verb — To measure.

    noun — The act of one who metes; a distribution or handing out.

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • mien

    noun — Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.

    noun — A specific facial expression.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • mignonette

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  • mime

    noun — A form of acting without words; pantomime.

    noun — A pantomime actor.

    verb — To act without words.

    verb — To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use of sound.

    verb — To mimic.

    noun — A person who mimics others in a comical manner.

    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • mimeo

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • miming

    verb — To act without words.

    verb — To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use of sound.

    noun — A performance in mime.

    verb — To mimic.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • mine

    pronoun — My; belonging to me; that which belongs to me.

    noun — A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.

    noun — An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.

    noun — Any source of wealth or resources.

    verb — To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.

    noun — A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • mini

    adjective — Miniature, tiny, small.

    noun — A miniskirt.

    noun — A minicomputer.

    Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.

  • minim

    noun — A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.

    noun — Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.

    noun — A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.

    noun — A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.

    noun — A little man or being; a dwarf.

    noun — A small fish; a minnow.

    Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.

  • mining

    noun — The activity of removing solid valuables from the earth.

    verb — To remove (ore) from the ground.

    verb — To dig into, for ore or metal.

    noun — Creation of new units of cryptocurrency by validating transactions and demonstrating proof-of-work

    noun — The activity of placing explosives underground, rigged to explode

    verb — To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.

    Appeared in 6 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 10 recorded puzzles.

  • mint

    adjective — (with condition) Like new.

    noun — Any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems.

    noun — A mint-flavored candy, often eaten to sweeten the smell of the breath.

    noun — The flavouring of the plant, either a sweet, a jelly or sauce.

    noun — A large amount of money. A vast sum or amount, etc.

    noun — A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.

    Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

  • minting

    verb — To reproduce (coins), usually en masse, under licence.

    noun — The act by which money is minted.

    verb — To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.

    verb — (provincial) To try, attempt; take aim.

    verb — (provincial) To try, attempt, endeavor; to take aim at; to try to hit; to purpose.

    verb — To hint; suggest; insinuate.

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • mite

    noun — Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acarina (aka Acari).

    noun — (sometimes used adverbially) Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle

    noun — (often used affectionately) A small or naughty person, or one you take pity on; rascal

    noun — A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing.

    noun — A lepton, a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ.

    noun — A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • mitt

    noun — An oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt.

    noun — A mitten

    noun — (especially in plural) A hand.

    Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.

  • mitten

    noun — A type of glove or garment that covers a hand with a separate sheath for the thumb, but not for other fingers, which are either enclosed in a single section or left uncovered.

    noun — A cat's or dog's paw that is a different colour from the main body.

    verb — To dress in mittens; to put a mitten on.

    noun — (as "the mitten") A romantic rejection; dismissal of a lover.

    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • moment

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • mono

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    Appeared in 16 recorded puzzles.

  • monotone

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • monte

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • mooing

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  • moon

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    Appeared in 16 recorded puzzles.

  • mooning

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  • moot

    noun — A moot court.

    adjective — Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.

    noun — A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.

    verb — To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.

    noun — Vagina.

    noun — The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.

    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • mooting

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  • mote

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • motet

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • motion

    noun — A state of progression from one place to another.

    verb — To gesture indicating a desired movement.

    noun — A change of position with respect to time.

    noun — A change from one place to another.

    noun — A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting.

    noun — An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.

    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

  • motioning

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  • motto

    noun — A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement.

    noun — A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim.

    noun — A paper packet containing a sweetmeat, cracker, etc., together with a scrap of paper bearing a motto.

    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • nominee

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • ointment

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • omen

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • omit

    verb — To leave out or exclude.

    verb — To fail to perform.

    verb — To neglect or take no notice of.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • omitting

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  • onetime

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • teem

    verb — To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.

    verb — To be stocked to overflowing.

    verb — To pour (especially with rain)

    Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

  • teeming

    adjective — Abundantly filled with especially living things.

    adjective — Referring to large quantities of rain.

    verb — To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.

    verb — To be stocked to overflowing.

    verb — To pour (especially with rain)

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • tenement

    noun — A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.

    noun — Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned.

    noun — Dwelling; abode; habitation.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • time

    noun — The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.

    noun — A duration of time.

    noun — The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.

    noun — An instant of time.

    verb — To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.

    verb — To choose when something begins or how long it lasts.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • timing

    noun — The regulation of the pace of e.g. an athletic race, the speed of an engine, the delivery of a joke, or the occurrence of a series of events.

    noun — The time when something happens.

    verb — To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.

    verb — To choose when something begins or how long it lasts.

    verb — To pass time; to delay.

    verb — To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • tome

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • tomtit

    noun — Petroica macrocephala, the miromiro or New Zealand tit, a bird of the Petroicidae (Australasian robin) family.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • totem

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

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

Hints, no spoilers

Words by first two letters

  • em×6
  • ge×1
  • gi×1
  • gn×1
  • im×1
  • it×1
  • me×11
  • mi×15
  • mo×14
  • no×1
  • oi×1
  • om×3
  • on×1
  • te×3
  • ti×2
  • to×3

Words by first letter and length

45678910Σ
e 11·31·· 6
g ·21···· 3
i 1···1·· 2
m 155106112 40
n ···1··· 1
o 2··12·· 5
t 31211·· 8
Σ 2291312612 65

The numbers

Genius today takes 228 points of 327 available. The average answer runs 5.7 letters.

Total points vs. all 386 recorded puzzles
92nd percentile
Word count vs. all recorded puzzles
92nd percentile

Word lengths, today vs. 17499 recorded answers

422 today34.6% all-time59 today22.8% all-time613 today19.9% all-time712 today12.1% all-time86 today6.3% all-time91 today2.6% all-time102 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
e Friday, November 14, 2025 Friday, September 19, 2025
g Tuesday, November 11, 2025 Wednesday, September 3, 2025
i Thursday, November 13, 2025 Wednesday, November 12, 2025
m ● Thursday, November 13, 2025 Sunday, October 26, 2025
n Friday, November 14, 2025 Sunday, November 9, 2025
o Friday, November 14, 2025 Thursday, November 13, 2025
t Wednesday, November 12, 2025 Friday, November 7, 2025

Most common answers, all recorded puzzles

  1. noon 42
  2. onion 30
  3. naan 30
  4. nana 30
  5. toot 28
  6. loll 28
  7. mama 25
  8. mamma 25
  9. cocoon 23
  10. acacia 23
  11. acai 23
  12. loon 23
  13. nene 23
  14. olio 23
  15. bill 22
  16. neon 22
  17. none 22
  18. lilt 21
  19. till 21
  20. tilt 21
  21. aria 21
  22. onto 21
  23. toon 21
  24. cancan 21
  25. canna 21

Valid words the Bee rejected

Accepted on other days, not today

These fit today's letters and have been official answers before — today the Bee said no.

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.