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NYT Spelling Bee answers & analysis

GLMOTYE

Thursday, June 11, 2026

Words
45
Points
177
Genius
123
Pangram
1

Official answers

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  • eely

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    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

  • eggy

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • elegy

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • emote

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • etymology

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  • eyelet

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • gelee

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    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • gelt

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • gemology

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  • geology

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • glee

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    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • goggle

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    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • golem

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  • gooey

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • google

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    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • leggy

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • loge

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    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • meet

    verb — To make contact (with) while in proximity.

    verb — To make physical or perceptual contact.

    verb — To satisfy; to comply with.

    noun — A meeting.

    noun — A sports competition, especially for track and field (a track meet) or swimming (a swim meet).

    verb — (Of groups) To come together.

    Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

  • melee

    noun — A noisy, confused or tumultuous fight, argument or scrap.

    noun — Any any confused, disorganised, disordered or chaotic situation.

    noun — A battle fought at close range; hand-to-hand combat; brawling.

    noun — Lively contention or debate, skirmish.

    verb — To physically hit in close quarters, as opposed to shooting, blowing up, or other ranged means of damage. Often refers to the usage of a hand-to-hand weapon.

    noun — A cavalry exercise in which two groups of riders try to cut paper plumes off the helmets of their opponents, the contest continuing until no member of one group retains his plume.

    Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

  • melt

    verb — To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.

    verb — To dissolve, disperse, vanish.

    verb — To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.

    verb — To be emotionally softened or touched.

    noun — The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.

    noun — Molten material, the product of melting.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • melty

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    Appeared in 2 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.

  • memo

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • mete

    verb — (usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.).

    verb — To measure.

    adjective — Suitable; right; proper.

    noun — A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere.

    Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

  • mettle

    noun — A quality of endurance and courage.

    noun — Good temperament and character.

    noun — Metal; a metallic substance.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • mole

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • mote

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • motel

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • motet

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • motley

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  • mottle

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • ogee

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    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

  • ogle

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    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • oleo

    noun — Margarine

    noun — The various fats and oils that go into the making of margarine.

    Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.

  • omelet

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • omelette

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • teem

    verb — To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.

    verb — To be stocked to overflowing.

    verb — To pour (especially with rain)

    Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

  • teleology

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • tell

    verb — To convey by speech; to say.

    verb — To narrate.

    verb — To instruct or inform.

    verb — To order; to direct, to say to someone.

    verb — To reveal.

    verb — To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.

    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • toggle

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • tome

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • tootle

    verb — To go (somewhere); to amble aimlessly.

    verb — To make a soft toot sound.

    verb — To play (a musical instrument) making such a sound.

    noun — A soft toot sound.

    noun — A trip or excursion.

    verb — To transport (someone somewhere).

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • tote

    noun — A tote bag.

    verb — To carry or bear.

    verb — To add up; to calculate a total.

    noun — A heavy burden.

    noun — (logistics) A kind of plastic box used for transporting goods.

    noun — A pari-mutuel machine; a totalizator.

    Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

  • totem

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • yell

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    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

Hints, no spoilers

Words by first two letters

  • ee×1
  • eg×1
  • el×1
  • em×1
  • et×1
  • ey×1
  • ge×4
  • gl×1
  • go×4
  • le×1
  • lo×1
  • me×8
  • mo×6
  • og×2
  • ol×1
  • om×2
  • te×3
  • to×5
  • ye×1

Words by first letter and length

456789Σ
e 221··1 6
g 23211· 9
l 11···· 2
m 743··· 14
o 3·1·1· 5
t 412··1 8
y 1····· 1
Σ 20119122 45

The numbers

Genius today takes 123 points of 177 available. The average answer runs 5.1 letters.

Total points vs. all 378 recorded puzzles
37th percentile
Word count vs. all recorded puzzles
47th percentile

Word lengths, today vs. 17142 recorded answers

420 today34.5% all-time511 today22.8% all-time69 today20.0% all-time71 today12.1% all-time82 today6.3% all-time92 today2.5% 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
e ● Tuesday, June 9, 2026 Monday, June 8, 2026
g Wednesday, June 10, 2026 Thursday, May 21, 2026
l Tuesday, June 9, 2026 Tuesday, June 2, 2026
m Wednesday, June 10, 2026 Thursday, June 4, 2026
o Wednesday, June 10, 2026 Tuesday, June 9, 2026
t Monday, June 8, 2026 Monday, May 25, 2026
y Wednesday, June 3, 2026 Saturday, February 7, 2026

Most common answers, all recorded puzzles

  1. noon 41
  2. naan 30
  3. nana 30
  4. onion 28
  5. toot 27
  6. loll 27
  7. mama 24
  8. mamma 24
  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. anon 20
  24. lull 19
  25. lulu 19

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.