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NYT Spelling Bee answers & analysis

ABEGINM

Saturday, February 14, 2026

Words
64
Points
293
Genius
205
Pangram
1

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  • aiming

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • ameba

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • amebae

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • amen

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    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • anemia

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • anima

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    Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.

  • anime

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • bagman

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  • bagmen

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  • beam

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • beaming

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  • begem

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • begemming

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  • enema

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    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • enigma

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • game

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    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • gamin

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • gamine

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • gaming

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • gamma

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    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • gimme

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

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • iamb

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  • iambi

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  • image

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • imagine

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • imaging

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • imagining

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • imam

    noun — (usually capitalized) A Shi'ite Muslim leader.

    noun — One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.

    Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.

  • imbibe

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • imbibing

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • mage

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    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • magi

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    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • magma

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    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • maim

    noun — A serious wound

    verb — To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.

    Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.

  • maiming

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • main

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    Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.

  • mama

    noun — (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

    Appeared in 25 recorded puzzles.

  • mamba

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • mamma

    noun — The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. (plural: mammae)

    noun — (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

    noun — An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera

    Appeared in 25 recorded puzzles.

  • manage

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    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • managing

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • mane

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    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • manga

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    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • mange

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    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • mania

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    Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.

  • manna

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    Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.

  • manning

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • mean

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    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • meanie

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • meaning

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • mega

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    Appeared in 6 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.

  • meming

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    Appeared in 4 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 19 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 19 recorded puzzles.

  • minima

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    Appeared in 13 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.

  • name

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    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • naming

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • nimbi

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

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

Hints, no spoilers

Words by first two letters

  • ai×1
  • am×3
  • an×3
  • ba×2
  • be×4
  • en×2
  • ga×5
  • gi×1
  • ia×2
  • im×7
  • ma×17
  • me×6
  • mi×8
  • na×2
  • ni×1

Words by first letter and length

456789Σ
a 133··· 7
b 1121·1 6
e ·11··· 2
g 132··· 6
i 221211 9
m 138631· 31
n 111··· 3
Σ 191916622 64

The numbers

Genius today takes 205 points of 293 available. The average answer runs 5.4 letters.

Total points vs. all 380 recorded puzzles
84th percentile
Word count vs. all recorded puzzles
91st percentile

Word lengths, today vs. 17231 recorded answers

419 today34.6% all-time519 today22.8% all-time616 today19.9% all-time76 today12.1% all-time82 today6.3% all-time92 today2.6% all-time101.2% all-time110.3% all-time120.1% all-time130.0% all-time

History

Today's letters, last seen

LetterLast in a puzzleLast as center
a Thursday, February 12, 2026 Tuesday, January 20, 2026
b Tuesday, February 10, 2026 Sunday, February 1, 2026
e Friday, February 13, 2026 Friday, February 6, 2026
g Friday, February 6, 2026 Thursday, January 22, 2026
i Wednesday, February 11, 2026 Sunday, February 8, 2026
m ● Thursday, February 12, 2026 Wednesday, February 11, 2026
n Friday, February 13, 2026 Thursday, February 12, 2026

Most common answers, all recorded puzzles

  1. noon 41
  2. naan 30
  3. nana 30
  4. onion 28
  5. toot 28
  6. loll 27
  7. mama 25
  8. mamma 25
  9. cocoon 23
  10. nene 23
  11. acacia 22
  12. acai 22
  13. bill 22
  14. loon 22
  15. aria 21
  16. onto 21
  17. toon 21
  18. cancan 21
  19. canna 21
  20. neon 21
  21. none 21
  22. olio 21
  23. lilt 20
  24. till 20
  25. 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.