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NYT Spelling Bee answers & analysis

CDHIPUE

Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Edited by Sam Ezersky

Words
51
Points
224
Genius
156
Pangrams
2

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  • cede

    verb — To give up; yield to another.

    verb — To give way.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • ceded

    verb — To give up; yield to another.

    verb — To give way.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • cheep

    verb — Of a small bird, to make short, high-pitched sounds sounding like "cheep".

    noun — A short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.

    interjection — The short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.

    verb — To express in a chirping tone.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • cheeped

    verb — Of a small bird, to make short, high-pitched sounds sounding like "cheep".

    verb — To express in a chirping tone.

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • chide

    verb — To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.

    verb — To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.

    verb — To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.

    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • chided

    verb — To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.

    verb — To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.

    verb — To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.

    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • chipped

    verb — To break small pieces from.

    adjective — Having one or more chips (small pieces) missing.

    verb — To chop or cut into small pieces.

    verb — (often with "in") to contribute.

    verb — To become chipped.

    verb — To play a shot hitting the ball predominantly upwards rather than forwards. In association football specifically, when the shot is a shot on goal, the opposing goalkeeper may be the direct object of the verb, rather than the ball.

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • cued

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • cupped

    verb — To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands.

    verb — To hold something in cupped hands.

    adjective — In the shape of a cup; concave.

    verb — To pour (a liquid, drink, etc.) into a cup.

    verb — To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping.

    verb — To supply with cups of wine.

  • decide

    verb — To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle

    verb — To make a judgment, especially after deliberation

    verb — To cause someone to come to a decision

    verb — To cut off; to separate

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • decided

    verb — To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle

    verb — To make a judgment, especially after deliberation

    adjective — Clear; unmistakable

    adjective — Determined; resolute

    verb — To cause someone to come to a decision

    verb — To cut off; to separate

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • deduce

    verb — To reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises.

    verb — To take away; to deduct; to subtract.

    verb — (Latinism) To lead forth.

    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • deduced

    verb — To reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises.

    verb — To take away; to deduct; to subtract.

    verb — (Latinism) To lead forth.

    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • deed

    noun — An action or act; something that is done.

    noun — A brave or noteworthy action; a feat or exploit.

    noun — A legal instrument that is executed under seal or before witnesses.

    noun — Action or fact, as opposed to rhetoric or deliberation.

    verb — To transfer real property by deed.

    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • deeded

    verb — To transfer real property by deed.

    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • deep

    adjective — (of a physical distance) Extending far away from a point of reference, especially downwards.

    adjective — (sleep) Sound, heavy (describing a state of sleep from which one is not easily awoken).

    adjective — (sound, voice) Low in pitch.

    adjective — Immersed, submerged (in).

    adjective — (of a color) Highly saturated.

    adjective — (intellectual, social) Complex, involved.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • deice

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • deiced

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • deicide

    noun — The killing of a god or goddess; godslaughter.

    noun — The killer of a god or goddess.

    noun — The crucifixion of Jesus viewed as a crime.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • deuce

    noun — A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.

    noun — A tied game where either player can win by scoring two consecutive points.

    noun — The number two.

    noun — A side of a die with two spots.

    noun — A cast of dice totalling two.

    noun — (epithet) The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger.

    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • dice

    verb — To cut into small cubes.

    noun — A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.

    verb — To play dice.

    noun — That which has been diced.

    noun — (plural also dies) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.

    noun — Gaming with one or more dice.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • diced

    verb — To cut into small cubes.

    verb — To play dice.

    verb — To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • died

    verb — To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.

    verb — To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).

    verb — To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.

    verb — (of a machine) To stop working, to break down.

    verb — To be mortified or shocked by a situation.

    verb — To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.

    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

  • dipped

    verb — To lower into a liquid.

    verb — To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.

    verb — (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.

    verb — To lower a light's beam.

    verb — To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.

    verb — To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.

    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • dude

    noun — (used in the vocative) A term of address for someone, typically a man, particularly when cautioning him or offering him advice.

    interjection — A term of address, usually for a man, conveying awe, excitement, surprise, etc.

    noun — A man, generally a younger man.

    noun — An inexperienced cowboy.

    noun — A tourist.

    noun — A man who is very concerned about his dress and appearance; a dandy, a fop.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • dupe

    verb — To swindle, deceive, or trick.

    noun — A person who has been deceived.

    noun — A duplicate.

    verb — To duplicate.

    noun — A duplicate of a photographic image.

    noun — (restaurant industry) A duplicate of an order receipt printed for kitchen staff.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • duped

    verb — To swindle, deceive, or trick.

    verb — To duplicate.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • eddied

    verb — To form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle.

    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

  • educe

    verb — To draw out or bring forth from some basic or potential state; to elicit, to develop.

    verb — To infer or deduce (a result, theory etc.) from existing data or premises.

    verb — To isolate (a substance) from a compound; to extract.

    verb — To direct the course of (a flow, journey etc.); to lead in a particular direction.

    verb — To cause or generate; to bring about.

    noun — An inference.

    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • educed

    verb — To draw out or bring forth from some basic or potential state; to elicit, to develop.

    verb — To infer or deduce (a result, theory etc.) from existing data or premises.

    adjective — Evoked

    adjective — Deduced

    verb — To isolate (a substance) from a compound; to extract.

    verb — To direct the course of (a flow, journey etc.); to lead in a particular direction.

    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • epee

    noun — A sharp-pointed dueling sword with a bell-shaped guard, used (with the end blunted) in sport fencing.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • epic

    adjective — Momentously heroic; grand in scale or character

    adjective — Extending beyond the usual or ordinary.

    noun — An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero.

    adjective — Of, or relating to, an epic.

    noun — A series of events considered appropriate to an epic.

    noun — In software development, a large or extended user story.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • heed

    verb — To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.

    verb — To pay attention, care.

    noun — Careful attention.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • heeded

    verb — To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.

    verb — To pay attention, care.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • hiccuped

    verb — To produce a hiccup; have the hiccups.

    verb — To say with a hiccup.

  • hiccupped

    verb — To produce a hiccup; have the hiccups.

    verb — To say with a hiccup.

    verb — To produce an abortive sound like a hiccup.

  • hide

    verb — To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight.

    verb — To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight.

    noun — The skin of an animal.

    noun — A secret room for hiding oneself or valuables; a hideaway.

    noun — (mainly British) A covered structure from which hunters, birdwatchers, etc can observe animals without scaring them.

    noun — The human skin.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • hippie

    noun — (1960s slang; still widely used in reference to that era) One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms: especially one who subscribes to values or actions such as acceptance or self-practice of recreational drug use, liberal or radical sexual mores, advocacy of communal living, strong pacifism or anti-war sentiment, etc.

    noun — Someone who dresses in a hippie style.

    noun — (modern slang) A person who keeps an unkempt or sloppy appearance and wearing unusually long hair (for males), and because of it, often stereotyped as a deadbeat.

    adjective — Of or pertaining to hippies.

    adjective — Not conforming to generally accepted standards.

    noun — (1950s slang) A teenager who imitated the beatniks.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • hued

    adjective — Coloured; having a hue.

    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • iced

    adjective — With ice added.

    adjective — Covered with icing.

    adjective — Very cold, but not necessarily containing ice.

    verb — To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.

    verb — To cool with ice, as a beverage.

    verb — To murder.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • peed

    verb — To urinate.

    verb — (mildly vulgar) To drizzle.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • peep

    verb — To look, especially through a narrow opening, or while trying not to be seen or noticed.

    noun — A quick look or glimpse, especially a furtive one.

    noun — A quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird.

    verb — To make a soft, shrill noise like a baby bird.

    noun — A feeble utterance or complaint.

    verb — To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • peeped

    verb — To look, especially through a narrow opening, or while trying not to be seen or noticed.

    verb — To make a soft, shrill noise like a baby bird.

    verb — To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance.

    verb — To speak briefly with a quiet voice.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • pepped

    verb — To inject with energy and enthusiasm.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • piece

    noun — A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.

    noun — A single item belonging to a class of similar items

    noun — An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc.

    noun — An article published in the press.

    verb — (usually with together) To assemble (something real or figurative).

    noun — A slice or other quantity of bread, eaten on its own; a sandwich or light snack.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • pieced

    verb — (usually with together) To assemble (something real or figurative).

    verb — To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out.

    verb — To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag.

    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • pied

    adjective — Having two or more colors, especially black and white.

    adjective — Decorated or colored in blotches.

    verb — To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).

    verb — To spill or mix printing type.

    verb — To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.

    verb — (of printing types) To reduce to confusion; to jumble.

    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • pipe

    noun — Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.

    noun — Meanings relating to a smoking implement.

    noun — Meanings relating to a wind instrument.

    verb — To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.

    verb — To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.

    verb — To create or decorate with piping (icing).

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • piped

    verb — To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.

    verb — To create or decorate with piping (icing).

    verb — To shout loudly and at high pitch.

    verb — To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.

    adjective — Shaped like a pipe; tubular.

    verb — To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.

    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • puce

    noun — A brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.

    adjective — Of a brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.

  • upped

    verb — To increase or raise.

    verb — (usually in combination with another verb) To act suddenly.

    verb — To promote.

    verb — To upload.

    verb — To ascend; to climb up.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

Hints, no spoilers

Words by first two letters

  • ce×2
  • ch×5
  • cu×2
  • de×11
  • di×4
  • du×3
  • ed×3
  • ep×2
  • he×2
  • hi×4
  • hu×1
  • ic×1
  • pe×4
  • pi×5
  • pu×1
  • up×1

Words by first letter and length

456789Σ
c 2322·· 9
d 6453·· 18
e 212··· 5
h 3·2·11 7
i 1····· 1
p 523··· 10
u ·1···· 1
Σ 191114511 51

The numbers

Genius today takes 156 points of 224 available. The average answer runs 5.2 letters.

Total points vs. all 378 recorded puzzles
58th percentile
Word count vs. all recorded puzzles
62nd percentile

Word lengths, today vs. 17142 recorded answers

419 today34.5% all-time511 today22.8% all-time614 today20.0% all-time75 today12.1% all-time81 today6.3% all-time91 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
c Monday, June 29, 2026 Monday, June 29, 2026
d Tuesday, June 30, 2026 Friday, April 24, 2026
e ● Sunday, June 28, 2026 Thursday, June 11, 2026
h Tuesday, June 30, 2026 Monday, June 15, 2026
i Monday, June 29, 2026 Thursday, June 25, 2026
p Saturday, June 27, 2026 Monday, May 18, 2026
u Monday, June 29, 2026 Tuesday, May 19, 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.