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NYT Spelling Bee answers & analysis

GINTUWO

Saturday, November 22, 2025

Words
56
Points
284
Genius
198
Pangram
1

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  • going

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • gong

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    Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

  • gonging

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • goon

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    Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

  • gouging

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • gout

    noun — An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints.

    verb — To spurt.

    noun — Taste; relish

    noun — (usually followed by of) A spurt or splotch.

    noun — A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.

    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

  • gown

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  • gowning

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  • ignition

    noun — The act of igniting.

    noun — The initiation of combustion.

    noun — A system for activating combustion in a combustion engine.

    noun — Receptacle for a key used to start the engine in a vehicle.

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • ingot

    noun — A solid block of more or less pure metal, often but not necessarily bricklike in shape and trapezoidal in cross-section, the result of pouring out and cooling molten metal, often immediately after smelting from raw ore or alloying from constituents.

    verb — To form (scraps of metal) into ingots.

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • into

    preposition — To or towards the inside of.

    preposition — To or towards the region of.

    preposition — Against, especially with force or violence.

    preposition — Indicates transition into another form or substance.

    preposition — After the start of.

    preposition — Interested in or attracted to.

    Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.

  • intoning

    verb — To give tone or variety of tone to; to vocalize.

    noun — Intonation

    verb — To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to speak or recite with singing voice; to chant.

    verb — To utter a tone; utter a protracted sound.

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • intuition

    noun — Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.

    noun — A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.

    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • noggin

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • nonunion

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    Appeared in 8 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.

  • noting

    verb — To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.

    pronoun — Not any thing; no thing.

    noun — A note; a written remark.

    verb — To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.

    verb — To denote; to designate.

    verb — To annotate.

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • notion

    noun — Mental apprehension of whatever may be known, thought, or imagined; idea, concept.

    noun — A sentiment; an opinion.

    noun — Sense; mind.

    noun — An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack.

    noun — Any small article used in sewing and haberdashery, either for attachment to garments or as a tool, such as a button, zipper, or thimble.

    noun — Inclination; intention; disposition.

    Appeared in 19 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.

  • ongoing

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    Appeared in 5 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.

  • onto

    adjective — (of a function) Assuming each of the values in its codomain; having its range equal to its codomain.

    preposition — Upon; on top of.

    preposition — Aware of.

    preposition — Being an onto function with a codomain of (see below).

    Appeared in 22 recorded puzzles.

  • outgo

    noun — The act or process of going out.

    verb — To go out, to set forth.

    noun — A quantity of a substance or thing that has flowed out; an outflow.

    noun — An expenditure, cost or outlay.

    verb — To go further; to exceed or surpass; go beyond.

    verb — To overtake; to travel faster than.

    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

  • outgoing

    verb — To go out, to set forth.

    noun — The act of leaving or going out; exit, departure.

    adjective — Extraverted: talkative, friendly, and social, especially with respect to meeting new people easily and comfortably.

    verb — To go further; to exceed or surpass; go beyond.

    verb — To overtake; to travel faster than.

    verb — To outdo; exceed; surpass.

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • outgun

    verb — To defeat in terms of firepower.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • outgunning

    verb — To defeat in terms of firepower.

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • outing

    verb — To eject; to expel.

    noun — A pleasure trip or excursion.

    verb — To reveal (a person) as LGBT+ (gay, trans, etc).

    verb — To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective.

    verb — To reveal (a secret).

    verb — To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public or apparent.

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • outwit

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  • outwitting

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  • owing

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  • owning

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  • togging

    verb — To dress (often with up or out).

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • tong

    noun — An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands.

    verb — To use tongs.

    noun — A Chinese secret society or gang.

    noun — The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.

    verb — To grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs.

    noun — This organ, as taken from animals used for food (especially cows).−

    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • tonging

    verb — To use tongs.

    noun — The action of seizing, grabbing, holding, or manipulating a given object with tongs.

    verb — To grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs.

    noun — The action of seizing an object with tongs for the purpose of pictorially documenting the event.

    noun — The action of opening wine bottles with port tongs by superheating the glass with the heated tongs, and then rapidly cooling the glass neck by applying a cold substance, thereby fracturing the glass neck open through heat stress.

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • tonguing

    verb — On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).

    noun — A licking or lapping with the tongue.

    verb — To manipulate with the tongue, as in kissing or oral sex.

    verb — To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.

    verb — To join by means of a tongue and groove.

    verb — To talk; to prate.

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • toning

    verb — To give a particular tone to

    noun — Use of colour; tone.

    verb — To change the colour of

    verb — To make (something) firmer

    verb — To harmonize, especially in colour

    verb — To utter with an affected tone.

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • toon

    noun — A cartoon, especially an animated television show.

    noun — A southeast Asian and Australian tree (Toona ciliata or Toona australis) of the mahogany family with fragrant dark red wood and flowers that yield a dye.

    noun — A town.

    noun — A melody.

    noun — A player's avatar or visible character in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.

    noun — The wood of this tree.

    Appeared in 22 recorded puzzles.

  • toot

    noun — The noise of a horn or whistle.

    verb — To stand out, or be prominent.

    noun — A toilet.

    noun — (by extension) A fart; flatus.

    noun — Cocaine.

    noun — A portion of cocaine that a person snorts.

    Appeared in 30 recorded puzzles.

  • tooting

    verb — To stand out, or be prominent.

    noun — The sound of a toot.

    verb — To peep; to look narrowly.

    verb — To see; to spy.

    verb — To flatulate.

    verb — To make the sound of a horn or whistle.

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • toting

    verb — To carry or bear.

    verb — To add up; to calculate a total.

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • tout

    noun — Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.

    verb — To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote.

    noun — In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.

    noun — A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.

    noun — A spy for a smuggler, thief, or similar.

    noun — An informer in the Irish Republican Army.

    Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

  • touting

    verb — To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote.

    noun — The act of one who touts.

    verb — To look upon or watch.

    verb — To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc.).

    verb — To give a tip on (a racehorse) to a person, with the expectation of sharing in any winnings.

    verb — To spy out the movements of racehorses at their trials, or to get by stealth or other improper means the secrets of the stable, for betting purposes.

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • towing

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  • town

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • tuition

    noun — A sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a high school, boarding school, university, or college).

    noun — The training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor.

    noun — Care, guardianship.

    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • union

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    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • unto

    preposition — Up to, indicating a motion towards a thing and then stopping at it.

    conjunction — Up to the time or degree that; until.

    preposition — To, indicating an indirect object.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • unwon

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  • winnow

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • winnowing

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  • wino

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • wont

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • wonton

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • wooing

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  • woot

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • wowing

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Hints, no spoilers

Words by first two letters

  • go×8
  • ig×1
  • in×4
  • no×6
  • on×3
  • ou×7
  • ow×2
  • to×13
  • tu×1
  • un×3
  • wi×3
  • wo×5

Words by first letter and length

45678910Σ
g 41·3··· 8
i 11··21· 5
n 2·3·1·· 6
o 13411·2 12
t 5·351·· 14
u 12····· 3
w 3·4··1· 8
Σ 177149522 56

The numbers

Genius today takes 198 points of 284 available. The average answer runs 5.9 letters.

Total points vs. all 418 recorded puzzles
81st percentile
Word count vs. all recorded puzzles
75th percentile

Word lengths, today vs. 18877 recorded answers

417 today34.5% all-time57 today23.0% all-time614 today20.0% all-time79 today12.0% all-time85 today6.3% all-time92 today2.6% all-time102 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
g Friday, November 21, 2025 Wednesday, September 3, 2025
i Thursday, November 20, 2025 Wednesday, November 12, 2025
n Friday, November 21, 2025 Monday, November 17, 2025
o ● Friday, November 21, 2025 Thursday, November 13, 2025
t Thursday, November 20, 2025 Friday, November 7, 2025
u Thursday, November 20, 2025 Tuesday, November 4, 2025
w Thursday, November 6, 2025 Friday, October 31, 2025

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.