Tuesday, February 3, 2026
- Words
- 48
- Points
- 222
- Genius
- 155
- Pangram
- 1
Official answers
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acrid
adjective — Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not to the taste.
adjective — Causing heat and irritation.
adjective — Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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aria
noun — A musical piece written typically for a solo voice with orchestral accompaniment in an opera or cantata.
Appeared in 21 recorded puzzles.
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arid
adjective — Very dry.
adjective — Devoid of value.
adjective — Describing a very dry climate. Typically defined as less than 25 cm or 10 inches of rainfall annually.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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card
noun — A playing card.
verb — To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
noun — Material with embedded short wire bristles.
verb — To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
noun — One of the officials appointed by the pope in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking only below the pope and the patriarchs, constituting the special college which elects the pope. (See Wikipedia article on Catholic cardinals.)
noun — (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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cardiac
noun — A person with heart disease.
adjective — Pertaining to the heart.
noun — Heart disease.
noun — A medicine that excites action in the stomach.
adjective — Pertaining to the cardia.
adjective — Exciting action in the heart, through the medium of the stomach; cordial; stimulant.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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citric
adjective — Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the citron or lemon.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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critic
noun — A person who appraises the works of others.
verb — To criticise.
noun — The art of criticism.
noun — A specialist in judging works of art.
noun — One who criticizes; a person who finds fault.
noun — An opponent.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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dart
noun — A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand, for example a short lance or javelin
verb — To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.
noun — Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.
noun — (sometimes figurative) Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
noun — A small object with a pointed tip at one end and feathers at the other, which is thrown at a target in the game of darts.
noun — A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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diacritic
noun — A special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.
adjective — Distinguishing
adjective — Denoting a distinguishing mark applied to a letter or character.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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dirt
noun — Soil or earth.
verb — To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty
noun — A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.
noun — Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person.
noun — Meanness; sordidness.
noun — In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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dramatic
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drat
verb — To damn or curse.
interjection — Expressing anger, annoyance or frustration.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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radar
noun — A method of detecting distant objects and determining their position, velocity, or other characteristics by analysis of sent radio waves (usually microwaves) reflected from their surfaces
verb — To scan with radar, or as if with radar.
noun — A type of system using such method, differentiated by platform, configuration, frequency, power, and other technical attributes.
noun — A superior ability to detect something.
noun — An installation of such a system or of the transmitting and receiving apparatus.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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radii
noun — A line segment between any point of a circle or sphere and its center.
noun — The long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb.
noun — The length of this line segment.
noun — Anything resembling a radius, such as the spoke of a wheel, the movable arm of a sextant, or one of the radiating lines of a spider's web.
noun — The lighter bone (or fused portion of bone) in the forelimb of an animal.
noun — One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the subcosta and the media; the vein running along the costal edge of the discal cell.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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raid
noun — An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering
noun — A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.
noun — A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.
noun — An activity initiated at or towards the end of a live broadcast by the broadcaster that sends its viewers to a different broadcast, primarily intended to boost the viewership of the receiving broadcaster. This is frequently accompanied by a message in the form of a hashtag that is posted in the broadcast's chat by the viewers.
verb — To lure from another; to entice away from.
verb — To indulge oneself by taking from.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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tarmacadam
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triad
noun — A grouping of three.
noun — A word of three syllables.
noun — A branch of a Chinese underground criminal society, mostly based in Hong Kong.
noun — On a CRT display, a group of three neighbouring phosphor dots, coloured green, red, and blue.
noun — A chord consisting of a root tone, the tone two degrees higher, and the tone four degrees higher in a given scale.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
Hints, no spoilers
Words by first two letters
- ac×1
- ar×5
- at×3
- ca×5
- ci×3
- cr×2
- da×1
- di×2
- dr×4
- ma×3
- mi×1
- ra×6
- ta×5
- ti×1
- tr×6
Words by first letter and length
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Σ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | · | · | · | 9 |
| c | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | · | · | 10 |
| d | 4 | 1 | · | · | 1 | 1 | · | 7 |
| m | 2 | · | 2 | · | · | · | · | 4 |
| r | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | · | · | · | 6 |
| t | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | · | · | 1 | 12 |
| Σ | 15 | 14 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 48 |
The numbers
Genius today takes 155 points of 222 available. The average answer runs 5.4 letters.
Word lengths, today vs. 17315 recorded answers
History
Today's letters, last seen
| Letter | Last in a puzzle | Last as center |
|---|---|---|
| a | Monday, February 2, 2026 | Tuesday, January 20, 2026 |
| c | Monday, January 26, 2026 | Sunday, January 18, 2026 |
| d | Monday, January 26, 2026 | Monday, January 26, 2026 |
| i | Monday, February 2, 2026 | Tuesday, January 27, 2026 |
| m | Thursday, January 22, 2026 | Tuesday, January 13, 2026 |
| r ● | Saturday, January 31, 2026 | Saturday, January 31, 2026 |
| t | Thursday, January 29, 2026 | Thursday, January 29, 2026 |
Most common answers, all recorded puzzles
- noon 42
- naan 30
- nana 30
- onion 29
- toot 28
- loll 28
- mama 25
- mamma 25
- cocoon 23
- loon 23
- nene 23
- acacia 22
- acai 22
- bill 22
- neon 22
- none 22
- olio 22
- aria 21
- onto 21
- toon 21
- cancan 21
- canna 21
- lilt 20
- till 20
- tilt 20
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.
- acari
- acarid
- airt
- amir
- amrita
- amtrac
- aramid
- ataractic
- caird
- caracara
- cardia
- carditic
- carr
- damar
- dammar
- daric
- iatric
- irid
- iridic
- iritic
- maar
- mair
- marc
- maria
- marram
- micra
- miracidia
- miri
- raia
- rami
- riata
- ricrac
- ritard
- tarama
- tartaric
- tatar
- trad
- triac
- triacid
- triadic
- trictrac