Sunday, February 1, 2026
- Words
- 80
- Points
- 427
- Genius
- 298
- Pangrams
- 2
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alibi
noun — The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in another place when the alleged act was committed
verb — To provide an excuse for.
verb — To provide an alibi for.
Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.
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baba
noun — A kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup.
noun — (esp. among people of East European ancestry) A grandmother.
noun — An old woman, especially a traditional old woman from an eastern European culture.
noun — (esp. among people of Indian ancestry) A father.
noun — (Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism) A holy man, a spiritual leader.
noun — A baby, child.
Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.
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bail
noun — Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
noun — Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
verb — To exit quickly.
verb — To fail to meet a commitment.
noun — A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket).
verb — To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.
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ball
noun — A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
noun — A round or ellipsoidal object.
verb — To play basketball.
noun — A very enjoyable time.
verb — To form or wind into a ball.
noun — A formal dance.
Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.
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ballooning
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banana
noun — An elongated curved tropical fruit that grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.
adjective — Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.
noun — The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas. The plant, usually of the genus Musa but sometimes also including plants from Ensete, has large, elongated leaves and is related to the plantain.
noun — A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.
noun — (mildly) A person of Asian descent, especially a Chinese American, who has assimilated into Western culture or married a Caucasian (from the "yellow" outside and "white" inside). Compare coconut or Oreo.
noun — A banana equivalent dose.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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bang
noun — A sudden percussive noise.
verb — To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
adverb — Right, directly.
interjection — A sudden percussive sound, such as made by the firing of a gun, slamming of a door, etc.
noun — Hair hanging over the forehead.
noun — Brucellosis, a bacterial disease.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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baobab
noun — A tree, Adansonia digitata (and similar species), native to tropical Africa, having a broad swollen trunk and edible gourd-like hanging fruits.
Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.
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bilabial
adjective — Articulated with both lips.
noun — A speech sound articulated with both lips.
Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.
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bill
noun — A piece of paper money; a banknote.
noun — A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.
verb — To charge; to send a bill to.
noun — A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
noun — The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
noun — Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
Appeared in 22 recorded puzzles.
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billabong
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billion
noun — (modern British & Australian, short scale) a thousand million (logic: 1,000 × 1,000^2): 1 followed by nine zeros, 109; a milliard
noun — (British & Australian, long scale) A million million (logic: 1,000,000^2): a 1 followed by twelve zeros; 1012
noun — An unspecified very large number.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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binging
verb — To engage in a short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol consumption.
verb — To go; walk; come; run
verb — Making the sound of a bounce
verb — To bounce
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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bingo
noun — A game of chance for two or more players, who mark off numbers on a grid as they are announced by the caller; the game is won by the first person to call out "bingo!" or "house!" after crossing off all numbers on the grid or in one line of the grid.
verb — To play the game of bingo.
adjective — Just sufficient to return to base (or, alternatively, to divert to an alternative airfield). (also written Bingo or BINGO)
interjection — Used by players of bingo to claim a win.
noun — Brandy.
noun — A win in such a game.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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binning
verb — To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
noun — A data pre-processing technique in which original data values fall into a small interval ("bin") and are replaced by a value representative of that interval, often the central value. Wp
verb — To throw away, reject, give up.
verb — To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
verb — To place into a bin for storage.
noun — The process of grouping reads or contigs and assigning them to operational taxonomic units. Wp
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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blab
verb — To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.
noun — Gossip; prattle.
noun — One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale; a gossip or gossiper.
Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.
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blob
noun — A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.
verb — To drop in the form of a blob or blobs
noun — Acronym of binary large object. (a data type that allows storage of binary data often of indeterminate length).
noun — In astronomy, a large cloud of gas. In particular, an extended Lyman-Alpha blob is a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy.
noun — A bubble; a bleb.
noun — A small freshwater fish (Cottus bairdii); the miller's thumb.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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blobbing
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blogging
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boba
noun — Short for boba tea.
noun — A small edible ball made primarily from tapioca starch; used in bubble tea.
Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.
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bobbin
noun — A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.
noun — In a sewing machine, the small spool that holds the lower thread.
noun — The little rounded piece of wood at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
noun — (haberdashery) A fine cord or narrow braid.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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bobbing
verb — To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water, or similar medium.
verb — To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
noun — The motion of something that bobs.
verb — To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
verb — To curtsy.
verb — To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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bobbling
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bogging
verb — (now often with "down") To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
verb — To provoke, to bug.
verb — (usually with "off") To go away.
adjective — Stinking; disgusting.
verb — To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
verb — (now often with "down") To sink and stick in bogland.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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boggling
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boil
noun — A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
noun — The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.
verb — (of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
noun — A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.
noun — The collective noun for a group of hawks.
verb — To cook in boiling water.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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boiling
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boing
noun — The sound made by an elastic object (such as a spring) when bouncing; the sound of a bounce.
verb — To make a boing sound or bouncing motion.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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boll
noun — The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
verb — To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
noun — An old dry measure equal to six bushels.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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bolo
noun — A long, heavy, single-edged machete.
verb — To attack or despatch with a bolo knife.
noun — A soldier not capable of the minimum standards of marksmanship.
verb — To fail to meet the minimum standards of marksmanship.
noun — A string or leather necktie secured with an ornamental slide.
verb — To dress (somebody) in a bolo.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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bologna
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bonbon
noun — A sweet, especially a small chocolate-covered candy.
noun — A small, spherical savory snack or canapé.
noun — A Christmas cracker.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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bong
noun — The clang of a large bell.
verb — To pull a bell.
noun — A vessel, usually made of glass or ceramic and filled with water, used in smoking various substances; especially marijuana or pot.
noun — A very wide piton.
noun — (thieves' cant) A purse.
noun — An Australian Aboriginal person.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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bongo
noun — A striped bovine mammal found in Africa, Tragelaphus eurycerus.
noun — Either of a pair of small drums of Cuban origin, played by beating with the hands.
verb — To play the bongo drums.
verb — Of the heart, etc.: to beat with an irregular rhythm.
verb — To hit something rhythmically with the hands.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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boning
verb — To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
verb — To apprehend, steal.
verb — To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
noun — The removal of bones from a carcass; filleting.
verb — To fertilize with bone.
verb — To put whalebone into.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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bonobo
noun — The pygmy chimpanzee, Pan paniscus, from Africa south of the Congo river.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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boob
noun — Idiot, fool.
verb — To behave stupidly; to act like a boob.
adjective — Idiotic, foolish.
noun — A breast, especially that of an adult or adolescent human female.
noun — A prison; jail.
verb — To make a mistake
Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.
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booboo
noun — A mistake or error.
noun — (by or to young children) A minor injury, such as a cut or a bruise.
noun — (by or to young children) Feces.
Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.
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boogaloo
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booing
verb — To shout extended boos derisively.
noun — A disapproving exclamation by a member of an audience.
verb — To shout extended boos at, as a form of derision.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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boon
noun — A prayer; petition.
adjective — Good; prosperous.
noun — The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
noun — That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.
noun — A good thing; a blessing or benefit; a thing to be thankful for.
noun — An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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gibbon
noun — A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which it uses to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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gibing
verb — Alternative spelling of gybe
noun — A gibe.
verb — Alternative spelling of jibe
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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global
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gobbling
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goblin
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labia
noun — The folds of tissue at the opening of the vulva, at either side of the vagina.
noun — A liplike structure; especially one of the two pairs of folds of skin either side of the vulva.
noun — The lip of a labiate corolla.
noun — The lip against which pressured air is driven to produce sound in a recorder and in a pipe organ with flue pipes.
Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.
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labial
adjective — Of or pertaining to the lips or labia.
adjective — Articulated by the lips, as the consonants b, m and w.
noun — A consonant articulated by the lips.
adjective — Of an incisor or canine, on the side facing the lips. See mesial.
noun — Any of the scales bordering the mouth opening of a reptile.
noun — An organ pipe having a lip that influences its sound.
Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.
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lobbing
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lobo
noun — A wolf.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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noob
noun — (often pejorative) A newb or newbie; refers to the idea that someone is new to a game, concept, or idea; implying a lack of experience. Also, in some areas the word noob can mean someone is obsessed with things.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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obliging
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Hints, no spoilers
Words by first two letters
- ab×1
- al×2
- ba×18
- bi×8
- bl×9
- bo×23
- ga×2
- gi×2
- gl×3
- go×2
- la×2
- lo×2
- na×2
- ni×1
- no×1
- ob×2
Words by first letter and length
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Σ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a | · | 2 | 1 | · | · | · | · | 3 |
| b | 17 | 6 | 11 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 58 |
| g | 2 | · | 4 | 1 | 2 | · | · | 9 |
| l | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | · | · | · | 4 |
| n | 1 | 1 | · | 1 | 1 | · | · | 4 |
| o | · | · | 1 | · | 1 | · | · | 2 |
| Σ | 21 | 10 | 18 | 17 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 80 |
The numbers
Genius today takes 298 points of 427 available. The average answer runs 6.0 letters.
Word lengths, today vs. 19068 recorded answers
History
Today's letters, last seen
| Letter | Last in a puzzle | Last as center |
|---|---|---|
| a | Saturday, January 31, 2026 | Tuesday, January 20, 2026 |
| b ● | Monday, January 26, 2026 | Monday, December 29, 2025 |
| g | Friday, January 30, 2026 | Thursday, January 22, 2026 |
| i | Saturday, January 31, 2026 | Tuesday, January 27, 2026 |
| l | Saturday, January 31, 2026 | Friday, January 30, 2026 |
| n | Friday, January 30, 2026 | Friday, January 2, 2026 |
| o | Saturday, January 31, 2026 | Wednesday, January 21, 2026 |
Most common answers, all recorded puzzles
- noon 45
- naan 34
- nana 34
- onion 31
- toot 30
- loll 29
- mama 27
- mamma 27
- acacia 25
- acai 25
- nene 25
- cocoon 24
- mini 24
- minim 24
- loon 24
- olio 24
- aria 23
- imam 23
- maim 23
- mitt 23
- onto 23
- toon 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.
- abba
- abigail
- abolla
- aboon
- alba
- albinal
- alibiing
- baal
- baboo
- babool
- bagnio
- balboa
- ballon
- bani
- banian
- baning
- biali
- bibb
- bibbing
- biggin
- bigging
- bignonia
- bilbo
- bilboa
- bilging
- billon
- binal
- blain
- bogan
- bolling
- bonging
- boobing
- gabion
- gabling
- gaboon
- galabia
- gangbang
- gibbing
- globin
- globing
- goban
- gobang
- gobbing
- gobo
- liblab
- nibbing
- nobbling
- obia
- obol
- oboli