Monday, February 16, 2026
- Words
- 57
- Points
- 221
- Genius
- 154
- Pangram
- 1
Official answers
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ammo
noun — Ammunition.
verb — To load up on ammunition.
Appeared in 11 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 18 recorded puzzles.
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backroom
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barroom
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bookmark
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camo
noun — A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.
verb — To camouflage.
noun — Clothes made from camouflage fabric, for concealment in combat or hunting.
verb — To put on camouflage clothing.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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coma
noun — A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.
noun — A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.
noun — A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that in an ideal image would appear as points.
noun — A tuft or bunch, such as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree, a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant, or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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comma
noun — The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
verb — To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas.
noun — A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
noun — Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
noun — A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
noun — A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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kaboom
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mama
noun — (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.
Appeared in 25 recorded puzzles.
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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.
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momma
noun — Mother
noun — A voluptuous woman.
noun — One's wife or girlfriend.
Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.
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roar
noun — A long, loud, deep shout, as of rage or laughter, made with the mouth wide open.
verb — To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
verb — To laugh in a particularly loud manner.
noun — A loud resounding noise.
verb — Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise.
verb — Of animals (especially the lion), to make a loud deep noise.
Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.
Hints, no spoilers
Words by first two letters
- ab×1
- am×2
- ar×4
- ba×13
- bo×4
- ca×5
- co×5
- cr×4
- ka×3
- ko×1
- ma×9
- mo×1
- ok×1
- or×1
- ra×1
- ro×2
Words by first letter and length
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Σ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a | 3 | 4 | · | · | · | 7 |
| b | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 17 |
| c | 6 | 8 | · | · | · | 14 |
| k | · | 3 | 1 | · | · | 4 |
| m | 4 | 5 | 1 | · | · | 10 |
| o | 2 | · | · | · | · | 2 |
| r | 3 | · | · | · | · | 3 |
| Σ | 24 | 21 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 57 |
The numbers
Genius today takes 154 points of 221 available. The average answer runs 5.0 letters.
Word lengths, today vs. 17231 recorded answers
History
Today's letters, last seen
| Letter | Last in a puzzle | Last as center |
|---|---|---|
| a ● | Sunday, February 15, 2026 | Sunday, February 15, 2026 |
| b | Saturday, February 14, 2026 | Sunday, February 1, 2026 |
| c | Monday, February 9, 2026 | Sunday, January 18, 2026 |
| k | Monday, February 9, 2026 | Friday, January 23, 2026 |
| m | Saturday, February 14, 2026 | Saturday, February 14, 2026 |
| o | Friday, February 13, 2026 | Thursday, February 5, 2026 |
| r | Sunday, February 15, 2026 | Tuesday, February 3, 2026 |
Most common answers, all recorded puzzles
- noon 41
- naan 30
- nana 30
- onion 28
- toot 28
- loll 27
- mama 25
- mamma 25
- cocoon 23
- nene 23
- acacia 22
- acai 22
- bill 22
- loon 22
- aria 21
- onto 21
- toon 21
- cancan 21
- canna 21
- neon 21
- none 21
- olio 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.
- abaca
- abaka
- abba
- aboma
- acock
- ambo
- arak
- araroba
- arrack
- arroba
- baboo
- bacca
- baccara
- barm
- bora
- cabob
- cabomba
- caca
- camorra
- carabao
- caracara
- carack
- caramba
- carbo
- carbora
- cark
- carr
- carrack
- carrom
- crackback
- crambo
- crookback
- kabab
- kabaka
- kabar
- kaka
- karoo
- karroo
- kbar
- maar
- macaco
- mack
- makar
- mammock
- marc
- markka
- markkaa
- marram
- mora
- orra
- roorback