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ADILNTM

Thursday, June 4, 2026

Words
56
Points
256
Genius
179
Pangram
1

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  • adamant

    noun — An imaginary rock or mineral of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness.

    adjective — (said of people and their conviction) Firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.

    noun — An embodiment of impregnable hardness.

    noun — A lodestone.

    adjective — (of an object) Very difficult to break, pierce, or cut.

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • adman

    noun — A person in the business of devising, writing, illustrating or selling advertisements.

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • admin

    noun — Administration, or administrative work.

    verb — To serve as an administrator for or of.

    noun — A systems administrator; one who maintains a computer system or network.

    noun — A user of a discussion forum, web site, etc. with privileges allowing them to control or restrict the activity of other uses.

    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • admit

    verb — To allow to enter; to grant entrance (to), whether into a place, into the mind, or into consideration

    verb — To allow (someone) to enter a profession or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise.

    verb — To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny

    verb — To be capable of; to permit. In this sense, "of" may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.

    verb — To give warrant or allowance, to grant opportunity or permission (+ of).

    verb — To allow to enter a hospital or similar facility for treatment.

    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • amid

    preposition — In the middle of; in the center of; surrounded by.

    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • anima

    noun — The soul or animating principle of a living thing, especially as contrasted with the animus.

    noun — (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) of a person that is in touch with the unconscious as opposed to the persona.

    noun — (Jungian psychology) The unconscious feminine aspect of a person.

    Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

  • animal

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • dalmatian

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  • dammit

    noun — The saying of the interjection, used as a general measure of anything.

    interjection — (mildly) Expressing anger, irritation, contempt, or disappointment.

    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • damn

    noun — The use of "damn" as a curse.

    verb — To condemn to hell.

    adjective — Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody.

    adverb — Very; extremely.

    interjection — Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt or suprise, etc. See also dammit.

    noun — A small, negligible quantity, being of little value; a whit or jot.

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • imam

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

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

    Appeared in 23 recorded puzzles.

  • lama

    noun — A master of Tibetan Buddhism.

    noun — A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • lamina

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • laminal

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • lima

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    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • liminal

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • limit

    noun — A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.

    verb — To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.

    noun — The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.

    noun — A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.

    noun — A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).

    noun — (as "the limit") A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.

    Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

  • limn

    verb — To draw or paint; to delineate.

    verb — To illuminate, as a manuscript; to decorate with gold or some other bright colour.

    Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

  • llama

    noun — A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • madam

    noun — A polite form of address for a woman or lady.

    verb — To address as "madam".

    noun — The mistress of a household.

    noun — A conceited or quarrelsome girl.

    noun — A woman who runs a brothel, particularly one that specializes in finding prostitutes for rich and important clients.

    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • madman

    noun — A male who is insane or mentally disturbed.

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • maid

    noun — A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.

    noun — A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).

    noun — A virgin, now female but originally one of either gender.

    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • mail

    noun — A bag or wallet.

    verb — (ditransitive) To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail.

    noun — Armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together.

    verb — To arm with mail.

    noun — An old French coin worth half a denier.

    noun — A bag containing letters to be delivered by post.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • mailman

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    Appeared in 3 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 23 recorded puzzles.

  • main

    verb — Short for mainline.

    adjective — Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal.

    adverb — Exceedingly, extremely, greatly, mightily, very, very much.

    noun — That which is chief or principal; the chief or main portion; the bulk, the greater part, gross.

    noun — A hand or match in a game of dice.

    noun — A basket for gathering grapes.

    Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

  • mainland

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • maintain

    verb — To support (someone), to back up or assist (someone) in an action.

    verb — To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).

    verb — To declare or affirm (a clause) to be true; to assert.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • mall

    noun — A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.

    verb — To beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise

    noun — An enclosed shopping centre.

    noun — An alley where the game of pall mall was played.

    noun — A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade.

    noun — A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • malt

    noun — Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.

    verb — To convert a cereal grain into malt by causing it to sprout (by soaking in water) and then halting germination (by drying with hot air) in order to develop enzymes that can break down starches and proteins in the grain.

    noun — Malt liquor, especially malt whisky.

    noun — A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor.

    noun — Maltose-rich sugar derived from malted grain.

    verb — To become malt.

    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • mama

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

    Appeared in 27 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 27 recorded puzzles.

  • mammal

    noun — An animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and feeding milk to its young.

    noun — A vertebrate with three bones in the inner ear and one in the jaw.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • mammalian

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • mandala

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • mania

    noun — Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.

    noun — Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.

    noun — The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.

    Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

  • manila

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • manna

    noun — Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.

    noun — (by extension) Any boon which comes into one's hands by good luck.

    noun — The sugary sap of the manna gum tree which oozes out from holes drilled by insects and falls to the ground around the tree.http//www.museum.vic.gov.au/forest/plants/gum.html

    Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.

  • manta

    noun — A kind of fabric or blanket used in Latin America and southwestern United States.

    noun — Any of several very large pelagic rays of the genus Manta, with winglike pectoral fins, a long tail, and two fins resembling horns that project from the head.

    Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

  • mantilla

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • midi

    noun — A native or inhabitant of Berlin.

    noun — A coat or skirt having such a hemline.

    adjective — Having a hemline at mid-calf length.

    noun — A doughnut with a sweet filling.

    noun — A newspaper format with pages normally measuring about 315 by 470 millimetres (12.4 in × 18.5 inches), slightly taller and wider than a tabloid but narrower and shorter than a broadsheet.

    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • midland

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • mild

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • militant

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • militia

    noun — An army of trained civilians, which may be an official reserve army, called upon in time of need, the entire able-bodied population of a state which may also be called upon, or a private force not under government control.

    noun — The police in the Soviet Union and some related or successor states (e.g. modern Belarus).

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • militiaman

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • mill

    noun — A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.

    verb — (followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.

    noun — A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.

    noun — An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality, such as a divorce mill, a puppy mill, etc.

    noun — An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised

    noun — The building housing such a grinding apparatus.

    Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.

  • mind

    noun — The ability for rational thought.

    verb — (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.

    noun — The ability to be aware of things.

    noun — The ability to remember things.

    noun — The ability to focus the thoughts.

    noun — Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • mini

    adjective — Miniature, tiny, small.

    noun — A miniskirt.

    noun — A minicomputer.

    Appeared in 23 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 23 recorded puzzles.

  • minima

    noun — The lowest limit.

    noun — The smallest amount.

    noun — A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star).

    noun — A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.

    noun — The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution.

    Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

  • minimal

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • mint

    adjective — (with condition) Like new.

    noun — Any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems.

    noun — A mint-flavored candy, often eaten to sweeten the smell of the breath.

    noun — The flavouring of the plant, either a sweet, a jelly or sauce.

    noun — A large amount of money. A vast sum or amount, etc.

    noun — A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.

    Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

  • mitt

    noun — An oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt.

    noun — A mitten

    noun — (especially in plural) A hand.

    Appeared in 22 recorded puzzles.

  • tatami

    noun — Straw matting, in a standard size, used as a floor covering in Japanese houses

    Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

  • timid

    adjective — Lacking in courage or confidence.

    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

Hints, no spoilers

Words by first two letters

  • ad×4
  • am×1
  • an×2
  • da×3
  • im×1
  • la×3
  • li×4
  • ll×1
  • ma×21
  • mi×14
  • ta×1
  • ti×1

Words by first letter and length

45678910Σ
a 1411··· 7
d 1·1··1· 3
i 1······ 1
l 3212··· 8
m 14645411 35
t ·11···· 2
Σ 201388421 56

The numbers

Genius today takes 179 points of 256 available. The average answer runs 5.5 letters.

Total points vs. all 411 recorded puzzles
72nd percentile
Word count vs. all recorded puzzles
74th percentile

Word lengths, today vs. 18583 recorded answers

420 today34.5% all-time513 today23.0% all-time68 today20.0% all-time78 today12.0% all-time84 today6.2% all-time92 today2.6% all-time101 today1.3% all-time110.3% all-time120.1% all-time130.0% all-time

History

Today's letters, last seen

LetterLast in a puzzleLast as center
a Wednesday, June 3, 2026 Wednesday, June 3, 2026
d Wednesday, June 3, 2026 Friday, April 24, 2026
i Wednesday, June 3, 2026 Monday, June 1, 2026
l Tuesday, June 2, 2026 Tuesday, June 2, 2026
m ● Tuesday, June 2, 2026 Friday, May 15, 2026
n Tuesday, June 2, 2026 Thursday, May 7, 2026
t Wednesday, June 3, 2026 Monday, May 25, 2026

Most common answers, all recorded puzzles

  1. noon 44
  2. naan 33
  3. nana 33
  4. onion 31
  5. toot 29
  6. loll 29
  7. mama 27
  8. mamma 27
  9. nene 25
  10. cocoon 24
  11. acacia 24
  12. acai 24
  13. loon 24
  14. olio 24
  15. imam 23
  16. maim 23
  17. cancan 23
  18. canna 23
  19. mini 23
  20. minim 23
  21. neon 23
  22. none 23
  23. aria 22
  24. mitt 22
  25. bill 22

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.