Saturday, August 29, 2026
Edited by Sam Ezersky
- Words
- 42
- Points
- 184
- Genius
- 128
- Pangram
- 1
Official answers
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addition
noun — The act of adding anything.
noun — Anything that is added.
noun — The arithmetic operation of adding.
noun — A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half.
noun — A title annexed to a person's name to identify him or her more precisely, as in "John Doe, Esq.", "Robert Dale, Mason", "Thomas Way, of New York".
noun — Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honour; opposed to abatement.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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annatto
noun — A tropical American evergreen shrub, Bixa orellana; the lipstick tree; the fruit of the tree.
noun — The seed of this tree used as a colouring or in Latin American cooking.
noun — An orange-red dye obtained from this seed.
Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.
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annotation
noun — A critical or explanatory commentary or analysis
noun — A comment added to a text
noun — The process of writing such comment or commentary
noun — Metadata added to a document or program
noun — Information relating to the genetic structure of sequences of bases
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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anoint
verb — To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil.
verb — To apply oil to or to pour oil upon, etc., as a sacred rite, especially for consecration.
verb — To choose or nominate somebody for a leading or otherwise important position, especially formally or officially, or as an intended successor.
verb — To mark somebody as an official ruler, especially a king or queen, as a part of a religious ceremony.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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anti
adjective — Opposed to something.
noun — A person opposed to a concept or principle.
preposition — Alternative form of anti-
adjective — That has a torsion angle between 90° and 180°
Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.
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attain
verb — To gain (an object or desired result).
verb — To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at (a place, time, state, etc.).
verb — To reach in excellence or degree.
verb — To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.
verb — To get at the knowledge of.
verb — To reach a person after being behind them.
Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.
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data
noun — (plural: data) A measurement of something on a scale understood by both the recorder (a person or device) and the reader (another person or device). The scale is arbitrarily defined, such as from 1 to 10 by ones, 1 to 100 by 0.1, or simply true or false, on or off, yes, no, or maybe, etc.
noun — (plural: data) A fact known from direct observation.
noun — (plural: data) A premise from which conclusions are drawn.
noun — (plural: datums) A fixed reference point, or a coordinate system.
Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.
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dint
noun — A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.
verb — To dent.
noun — Force, power; especially in by dint of.
noun — The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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donation
noun — A voluntary gift or contribution for a specific cause.
noun — The act of giving or bestowing; a grant.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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hath
verb — To possess, own.
verb — To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
verb — Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
verb — To partake of (a particular substance, especially food or drink, or action or activity).
verb — To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
verb — To experience, go through, undergo.
Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.
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hint
noun — A clue.
verb — To suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
noun — A tacit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
noun — A small, barely detectable amount of.
noun — Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering. Also known as hinting.
noun — An opportunity; occasion; fit time.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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hoot
noun — A derisive cry or shout.
verb — To cry out or shout in contempt.
noun — The cry of an owl.
noun — A fun event or person. (See hootenanny)
noun — A small particle.
verb — To make the cry of an owl, a hoo.
Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.
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idiot
noun — A person of low general intelligence.
adjective — Idiotic, stupid
noun — A person who makes stupid decisions; a fool.
noun — A person of the lowest intellectual standing, a person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old; a person with an IQ below 30.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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initiation
noun — The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced
noun — The form or ceremony by which a person is introduced into any society; mode of entrance into an organized body; especially, the rite of admission into a secret society or order.
noun — The first step of transcription or of transduction.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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into
preposition — To or towards the inside of.
preposition — To or towards the region of.
preposition — Against, especially with force or violence.
preposition — Indicates transition into another form or substance.
preposition — After the start of.
preposition — Interested in or attracted to.
Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.
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intonation
noun — The rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
noun — The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.
noun — Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise.
noun — Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest.
noun — A thundering; thunder.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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iota
noun — The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet.
noun — A jot; a very small, insignificant quantity.
Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.
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natant
adjective — Floating or swimming (in water)
adjective — In a horizontal position, as if swimming
Appeared in 21 recorded puzzles.
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nation
noun — A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.
noun — Damnation.
adverb — Extremely, very.
noun — A sovereign state.
noun — An association of students based on its members' birthplace or ethnicity.
noun — A great number; a great deal.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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nationhood
noun — The quality of being a nation.
noun — The fact of achieving national independence or autonomy.
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ninth
noun — The person or thing in the ninth position.
verb — To lose a ninth
adjective — The ordinal form of the number nine.
noun — One of nine equal parts of a whole.
noun — The compound interval between any tone and the tone represented on the ninth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and two of the octave above; the octave of the second, consisting of 13 or 14 semitones (called minor and major ninth).
verb — To divide by nine
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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notation
noun — The act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters.
noun — A system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in an art or science or in mathematics or logic to express technical facts or quantities.
noun — A specific note or piece of information written in such a notation.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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notion
noun — Mental apprehension of whatever may be known, thought, or imagined; idea, concept.
noun — A sentiment; an opinion.
noun — Sense; mind.
noun — An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack.
noun — Any small article used in sewing and haberdashery, either for attachment to garments or as a tool, such as a button, zipper, or thimble.
noun — Inclination; intention; disposition.
Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.
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oath
noun — A solemn pledge or promise, appealing to a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest to the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise.
verb — To pledge.
noun — A statement or promise which is strengthened (affirmed) by such a pledge.
noun — A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity.
noun — A curse, a curse word.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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onto
adjective — (of a function) Assuming each of the values in its codomain; having its range equal to its codomain.
preposition — Upon; on top of.
preposition — Aware of.
preposition — Being an onto function with a codomain of (see below).
Appeared in 24 recorded puzzles.
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taint
verb — To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
noun — A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish
noun — A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food
verb — To spoil (food) by contamination.
noun — Infection; corruption; deprivation
noun — A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.
Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.
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tannin
noun — Tannic acid or any of its derivatives.
Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.
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tattoo
noun — An image made in the skin with ink and a needle.
verb — To apply a tattoo to (someone or something).
noun — A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out).
verb — To tap rhythmically on, to drum.
noun — A breed of pony from India; a pony of that breed.
noun — A method of decorating the skin by inserting colored substances under the surface with a sharp instrument (usually a solenoid-driven needle).
Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.
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than
adverb — At that time; then.
preposition — Introduces a comparison, and is associated with comparatives, and with words such as more, less, and fewer. Typically, it seeks to measure the force of an adjective or similar description between two predicates.
conjunction — Used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison.
conjunction — (obsolete outside dialectal, usually used with for) Because; for.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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that
noun — Something being indicated that is there; one of those.
adverb — (degree) To a given extent or degree.
pronoun — (demonstrative) The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction.
conjunction — Introducing a clause which is the subject or object of a verb (such as one involving reported speech), or which is a complement to a previous statement.
adverb — (degree) To a great extent or degree; very, particularly (in negative constructions).
adverb — To such an extent; so. (in positive constructions).
Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.
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thin
noun — A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.
verb — To make thin or thinner.
adjective — Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
adverb — Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.
noun — Any food produced or served in thin slices.
verb — To become thin or thinner.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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tint
verb — To shade, to color.
noun — A slight coloring.
noun — A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)
noun — A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.
noun — A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
Appeared in 22 recorded puzzles.
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titan
noun — Something or someone of very large stature, greatness, or godliness.
Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.
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toad
noun — An amphibian, a kind of frog (order Anura) with shorter hindlegs and a drier, wartier skin, many in family Bufonidae.
verb — To expel (a user) permanently from a MUD or similar system, so that their account is deleted.
noun — A contemptible or unpleasant person.
noun — An ugly person.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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toon
noun — A cartoon, especially an animated television show.
noun — A southeast Asian and Australian tree (Toona ciliata or Toona australis) of the mahogany family with fragrant dark red wood and flowers that yield a dye.
noun — A town.
noun — A melody.
noun — A player's avatar or visible character in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
noun — The wood of this tree.
Appeared in 24 recorded puzzles.
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toot
noun — The noise of a horn or whistle.
verb — To stand out, or be prominent.
noun — A toilet.
noun — (by extension) A fart; flatus.
noun — Cocaine.
noun — A portion of cocaine that a person snorts.
Appeared in 32 recorded puzzles.
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tooth
noun — A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for eating.
verb — To provide or furnish with teeth.
noun — A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.
noun — A projection on the edge of a gear that meshes with similar projections on adjacent gears, or on the circumference of a cog that engages with a chain.
noun — A projection or point in other parts of the body resembling the tooth of a vertebrate animal.
noun — A pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.
Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.
Hints, no spoilers
Words by first two letters
- ad×1
- an×4
- at×1
- da×1
- dh×1
- di×2
- do×2
- ha×2
- hi×1
- ho×1
- id×1
- in×3
- io×1
- na×3
- ni×1
- no×2
- oa×1
- on×1
- ta×4
- th×3
- ti×2
- to×4
Words by first letter and length
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 10 | Σ | |
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| a | 1 | · | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| d | 3 | 2 | · | · | 1 | · | 6 |
| h | 3 | 1 | · | · | · | · | 4 |
| i | 2 | 1 | · | · | · | 2 | 5 |
| n | · | 1 | 3 | · | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| o | 2 | · | · | · | · | · | 2 |
| t | 7 | 3 | 3 | · | · | · | 13 |
| Σ | 18 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 42 |
The numbers
Genius today takes 128 points of 184 available. The average answer runs 5.5 letters.
Word lengths, today vs. 19259 recorded answers
History
Today's letters, last seen
| Letter | Last in a puzzle | Last as center |
|---|---|---|
| a | Friday, August 28, 2026 | Friday, July 3, 2026 |
| d | Friday, August 28, 2026 | Thursday, August 6, 2026 |
| h | Wednesday, August 26, 2026 | Sunday, August 9, 2026 |
| i | Friday, August 28, 2026 | Saturday, August 22, 2026 |
| n | Wednesday, August 26, 2026 | Monday, August 24, 2026 |
| o | Thursday, August 27, 2026 | Monday, August 17, 2026 |
| t ● | Friday, August 28, 2026 | Thursday, August 27, 2026 |
Most common answers, all recorded puzzles
- noon 45
- naan 34
- nana 34
- toot 32
- onion 31
- loll 29
- mama 27
- mamma 27
- nene 26
- acacia 25
- acai 25
- cocoon 24
- onto 24
- toon 24
- mini 24
- minim 24
- loon 24
- olio 24
- aria 23
- imam 23
- maim 23
- mitt 23
- cancan 23
- canna 23
- neon 23
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.
- adit
- adnation
- anatto
- andantino
- anta
- anthodia
- anthoid
- attaint
- dato
- datto
- dhooti
- dita
- doat
- doit
- dotation
- hadith
- hant
- inanition
- inti
- iodation
- iodination
- natation
- nitid
- niton
- nota
- odontoid
- ootid
- otto
- tain
- tanto
- thio
- thionin
- titania
- tithonia
- titi
- titian
- toit
- tondi
- tondo