Friday, February 13, 2026
- Words
- 59
- Points
- 272
- Genius
- 190
- Pangrams
- 2
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devolve
verb — To fall as a duty or responsibility on or upon someone.
verb — To delegate (a responsibility, duty, etc.) on or upon someone.
verb — To degenerate; to break down.
verb — To be inherited by someone else; to pass down upon the next person in a succession, especially through failure or loss of an earlier holder.
verb — To roll (something) down; to unroll.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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devolved
verb — To fall as a duty or responsibility on or upon someone.
verb — To delegate (a responsibility, duty, etc.) on or upon someone.
verb — To degenerate; to break down.
verb — To be inherited by someone else; to pass down upon the next person in a succession, especially through failure or loss of an earlier holder.
verb — To roll (something) down; to unroll.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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dole
verb — To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.
noun — Payment by the state to the unemployed.
noun — Money or other goods given as charity.
noun — Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
noun — A boundary; a landmark.
noun — Sorrow or grief; dolour.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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doled
verb — To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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doll
noun — A toy in the form of a human.
noun — A term of endearment: darling, sweetheart.
noun — (sometimes offensive) An attractive young woman
noun — A dollar.
noun — (now possibly offensive) A good-natured, cooperative or helpful girl.
noun — The smallest or pet pig in a litter.
Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.
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doodle
verb — To draw or scribble aimlessly.
noun — A small mindless sketch, etc.
noun — Any crossbreed of a poodle with a different breed of dog.
noun — A fool, a simpleton, a mindless person.
noun — (sometimes childish) Penis.
verb — To drone like a bagpipe.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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doodled
verb — To draw or scribble aimlessly.
verb — To drone like a bagpipe.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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dull
verb — To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
adjective — Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
verb — To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
verb — To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
verb — To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
adjective — Boring; not exciting or interesting.
Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.
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eleven
noun — A cricket team of eleven players. Hence first eleven - the team of best cricket players (at a school), second eleven - the "B" team, etc.
numeral — The cardinal number occurring after ten and before twelve. Represented as 11 in Arabic digits.
noun — A football team of eleven players; the starting lineup.
noun — Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, imitating someone who forgets to press the shift key while typing exclamation points.
noun — A number off the charts of a hypothetical scale of one to ten.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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evolve
verb — To change; transform.
verb — Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
verb — To come into being; develop.
verb — To cause something to change or transform.
verb — To move in regular procession through a system.
verb — To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction).
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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evolved
verb — To change; transform.
verb — Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
adjective — Having arisen through a process of evolution or iterative development.
verb — To come into being; develop.
verb — To cause something to change or transform.
verb — To move in regular procession through a system.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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lend
noun — The lumbar region; loin.
verb — To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.
noun — (of a person or animal) The loins; flank; buttocks.
verb — To make a loan.
verb — To be suitable or applicable, to fit.
verb — To afford; to grant or furnish in general.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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levee
noun — An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi.
verb — To keep within a channel by means of levees.
noun — The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest.
verb — To attend the levee or levees of.
noun — The steep bank of a river.
noun — The border of an irrigated field.
Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.
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level
noun — A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
verb — To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
adjective — The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
noun — A distance relative to a given reference elevation.
noun — Degree or amount.
noun — Achievement or qualification.
Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.
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lode
noun — A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure.
noun — (by extension) A rich source of supply.
noun — A way or path; a road.
noun — A watercourse.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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loll
verb — To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease.
verb — To hang extended from the mouth, like the tongue of an animal heated from exertion.
verb — To let (the tongue) hang from the mouth in this way.
Appeared in 30 recorded puzzles.
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lolled
verb — To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease.
verb — To laugh out loud.
verb — To hang extended from the mouth, like the tongue of an animal heated from exertion.
verb — To let (the tongue) hang from the mouth in this way.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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lone
adjective — Solitary; having no companion.
adjective — Isolated or lonely; lacking companionship.
adjective — Sole; being the only one of a type.
adjective — Situated by itself or by oneself, with no neighbours.
adjective — Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
adjective — Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.
Appeared in 16 recorded puzzles.
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loon
noun — An idler, a lout.
noun — Any of various birds, of the order Gaviiformes, of North America and Europe that dive for fish and have a short tail, webbed feet and a yodeling cry.
noun — A boy, a lad.
noun — A harlot; mistress.
noun — A simpleton.
noun — A crazy or deranged person.
Appeared in 24 recorded puzzles.
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louden
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loudened
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love
noun — Strong affection.
verb — (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
noun — A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved.
noun — A thing, activity etc which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm.
verb — To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
verb — (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive) To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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loved
verb — (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
adjective — Being the object of love.
verb — To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
verb — (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive) To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
verb — To derive delight from a fact or situation.
verb — To need, thrive on.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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lull
noun — A period of rest or soothing.
verb — To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm
noun — A period of reduced activity; a respite
noun — A period without waves or wind.
noun — An extended pause between sets of waves.
verb — To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate.
Appeared in 21 recorded puzzles.
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lulu
noun — A remarkable person, object or idea.
noun — A very attractive or alluring person.
noun — A very bad mistake or error.
noun — A fixed allowance paid to a legislator in lieu of reimbursement for actual expenses.
Appeared in 21 recorded puzzles.
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lune
noun — A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.
noun — A concave figure formed by the intersection of the arcs of two circles on a plane, or on a sphere the intersection between two great semicircles.
noun — (hawking) A leash for a hawk.
noun — Anything crescent-shaped.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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needle
noun — A fine, sharp implement usually for piercing such as sewing, or knitting, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections, etc.
verb — To pierce with a needle, especially for sewing or acupuncture.
noun — Any slender, pointed object resembling a needle, such as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
noun — A fine measurement indicator on a dial or graph, e.g. a compass needle.
noun — A sensor for playing phonograph records, a phonograph stylus.
noun — A needle-like leaf found on some conifers.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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needled
verb — To pierce with a needle, especially for sewing or acupuncture.
adjective — Covered or armored with needles.
verb — To tease in order to provoke; to poke fun at.
verb — To form, or be formed, in the shape of a needle.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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nodule
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noel
noun — Christmas
noun — A kind of hymn, or canticle, of mediaeval origin, sung in honor of the birth of Christ; a Christmas carol.
Appeared in 16 recorded puzzles.
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nouvelle
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novel
adjective — Newly made, formed or evolved; having no precedent; of recent origin; new.
noun — A work of prose fiction, longer than a novella.
noun — A novelty; something new.
noun — A new legal constitution in ancient Rome.
adjective — Original, especially in an interesting way; new and striking; not of the typical or ordinary type.
noun — A fable; a short tale, especially one of many making up a larger work.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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null
noun — A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
verb — To nullify; to annul.
adjective — Having no validity; "null and void"
noun — Zero quantity of expressions; nothing.
noun — Something that has no force or meaning.
noun — The ASCII or Unicode character (␀), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.
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oleo
noun — Margarine
noun — The various fats and oils that go into the making of margarine.
Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.
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ovule
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unevolved
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unloved
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vole
noun — Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae of the family Cricetidae which are not lemmings or muskrats.
noun — A deal in a card game, écarté, that draws all the tricks.
verb — To win all the tricks by a vole.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
unloved is a perfect pangram — all seven letters, each used exactly once.
Hints, no spoilers
Words by first two letters
- de×7
- do×6
- du×4
- el×3
- ev×2
- le×5
- lo×10
- lu×4
- ne×2
- no×6
- nu×1
- ol×2
- ov×1
- un×3
- ve×2
- vo×1
Words by first letter and length
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Σ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| d | 5 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | · | 17 |
| e | · | 1 | 3 | 1 | · | · | 5 |
| l | 11 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | · | 19 |
| n | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | · | 9 |
| o | 1 | 2 | · | · | · | · | 3 |
| u | · | · | · | 2 | · | 1 | 3 |
| v | 2 | · | 1 | · | · | · | 3 |
| Σ | 21 | 9 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 59 |
The numbers
Genius today takes 190 points of 272 available. The average answer runs 5.4 letters.
Word lengths, today vs. 19815 recorded answers
History
Today's letters, last seen
| Letter | Last in a puzzle | Last as center |
|---|---|---|
| d | Thursday, February 5, 2026 | Monday, January 26, 2026 |
| e | Wednesday, February 11, 2026 | Friday, February 6, 2026 |
| l ● | Monday, February 9, 2026 | Friday, January 30, 2026 |
| n | Thursday, February 12, 2026 | Thursday, February 12, 2026 |
| o | Thursday, February 12, 2026 | Thursday, February 5, 2026 |
| u | Sunday, February 8, 2026 | Saturday, December 27, 2025 |
| v | Wednesday, February 4, 2026 | Wednesday, February 4, 2026 |
Most common answers, all recorded puzzles
- noon 45
- naan 35
- nana 35
- toot 32
- onion 31
- loll 30
- mama 28
- mamma 28
- acacia 26
- acai 26
- nene 26
- mini 25
- minim 25
- cocoon 24
- imam 24
- maim 24
- onto 24
- toon 24
- loon 24
- olio 24
- lilt 23
- till 23
- tilt 23
- aria 23
- mitt 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.
- dele
- deled
- devel
- develed
- doolee
- duelled
- duello
- elevon
- enol
- leno
- leone
- leud
- leveed
- levelled
- levo
- loden
- looed
- lude
- lunule
- noddle
- noddled
- nolo
- nonnovel
- novelle
- nulled
- ovolo
- undeluded
- undulled
- unled
- unleveled
- unlevelled
- voled