Sunday, September 27, 2026
Edited by Sam Ezersky
- Words
- 78
- Points
- 431
- Genius
- 301
- Pangrams
- 4
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defend
verb — To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard.
verb — To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
verb — To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
verb — To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing on scoring.
verb — To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did in the previous edition of that competition.
verb — To call a raise from the big blind.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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defended
verb — To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard.
verb — To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
verb — To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
verb — To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing on scoring.
verb — To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did in the previous edition of that competition.
verb — To call a raise from the big blind.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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defile
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defiled
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define
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defined
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defund
verb — To cancel funding for.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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defunded
verb — To cancel funding for.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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duff
noun — Dough.
noun — Decaying vegetable matter on the forest floor.
adjective — Worthless; not working properly, defective.
noun — The buttocks.
verb — To disguise something to make it look new.
noun — A large frame drum, resembling a tambourine, used to accompany popular and classical music in the Middle East.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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feed
noun — Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
verb — (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
verb — To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.
noun — Something supplied continuously.
noun — The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
noun — The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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feel
verb — (heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
verb — (heading) To use or experience the sense of touch.
verb — To seem (through touch or otherwise).
noun — A vague mental impression.
noun — A quality of an object experienced by touch.
verb — To be or become aware of.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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felid
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fell
verb — To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
verb — To strike down, kill, destroy.
adjective — Of a strong and cruel nature; eager and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.
noun — (obsolete outside Britain) A rocky ridge or chain of mountains.
noun — (obsolete outside Britain) A wild field or upland moor.
noun — The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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fend
noun — Self-support; taking care of one's own well-being.
verb — To take care of oneself; to take responsibility for one's own well-being.
noun — An enemy; fiend; the Devil.
verb — (except as "fend for oneself") To defend, to take care of (typically construed with for); to block or push away (typically construed with off).
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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fended
verb — To take care of oneself; to take responsibility for one's own well-being.
verb — (except as "fend for oneself") To defend, to take care of (typically construed with for); to block or push away (typically construed with off).
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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fennel
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feud
noun — A state of long-standing mutual hostility.
verb — To carry on a feud.
noun — An estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord in exchange for service.
noun — A staged rivalry between wrestlers.
noun — A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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feuded
verb — To carry on a feud.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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fiddle
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fiddled
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field
noun — A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
verb — To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
noun — A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
noun — A place where competitive matches are carried out.
noun — Any of various figurative meanings, regularly dead metaphors.
verb — (and other batting sports) To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
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fielded
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fiend
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file
noun — A collection of papers collated and archived together.
verb — To commit (official papers) to some office.
noun — A column of people one behind another, whether "single file" or in a large group with many files side by side.
verb — To move in a file.
noun — A hand tool consisting of a handle to which a block of coarse metal is attached, and used for removing sharp edges or for cutting, especially through metal.
verb — To smooth, grind, or cut with a file.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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filed
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fill
verb — To occupy fully, to take up all of.
noun — (after a possessive) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
noun — One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
verb — To add contents to (a container, cavity or the like) so that it is full.
verb — To enter (something), making it full.
verb — To become full.
Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.
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filled
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find
noun — Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
verb — To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
noun — The act of finding.
verb — To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
verb — (ditransitive) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.
verb — To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
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fine
noun — Fine champagne; French brandy.
verb — To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
adjective — Senses referring to subjective quality.
adverb — Expression of (typically) reluctant agreement.
noun — A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.
verb — To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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fined
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finned
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flee
verb — To run away; to escape.
verb — To escape from.
verb — To disappear quickly; to vanish.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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flied
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flue
noun — A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace).
noun — An enclosed passageway in which to direct air or other gaseous current along.
noun — In an organ flue pipe, the opening between the lower lip and the languet.
noun — A woolly or downy substance; down, nap; a piece of this.
adjective — Shallow; flat
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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fuel
noun — Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
verb — To provide with fuel.
noun — Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action.
verb — To exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater.
noun — Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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full
adjective — Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.
adverb — Fully; quite; very; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
noun — Utmost measure or extent; highest state or degree; the state, position, or moment of fullness; fill.
verb — (of the moon) To become full or wholly illuminated.
verb — To baptise.
verb — To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing, to waulk, walk
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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fund
noun — A sum or source of money.
verb — To pay for.
noun — An organization managing such money.
noun — A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund.
noun — A large supply of something to be drawn upon.
verb — To place (money) in a fund.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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funded
verb — To pay for.
adjective — Having received financial support; paid for.
verb — To place (money) in a fund.
verb — To form a debt into a stock charged with interest.
adjective — Invested in public funds; existing in the form of bonds.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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funnel
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funneled
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infidel
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infield
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infill
noun — That which fills in a space, hole or gap.
verb — To fill in a space, hole or gap.
noun — Infiltration, the act of going into a place.
noun — The redecoration of a fingernail or toenail after it has grown, to prevent an unsightly gap.
verb — To rededicate land in an urban environment to new construction.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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infilled
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life
noun — The state of organisms preceding their death, characterized by biological processes such as metabolism and reproduction and distinguishing them from inanimate objects; the state of being alive and living.
noun — The animating principle or force that keeps an inorganic thing or concept metaphorically alive (dynamic, relevant, etc) and makes it a "living document", "living constitution", etc.
noun — Lifeforms, generally or collectively.
noun — A living individual; the fact of a particular individual being alive. (Chiefly when indicating individuals were lost (died) or saved.)
noun — Existence.
noun — A period of time during which something has existence.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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luffed
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needful
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nullified
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undefended
adjective — Not defended.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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undefined
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unfed
noun — A mosquito that has not had a blood meal.
adjective — Not fed.
adjective — Unsupported.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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unfiled
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unfilled
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unfulfilled
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unfunded
adjective — Not funded; having received no funding.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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unified
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unfiled is a perfect pangram — all seven letters, each used exactly once.
Hints, no spoilers
Words by first two letters
- de×10
- du×3
- ed×1
- el×1
- fe×11
- fi×16
- fl×7
- fu×11
- in×4
- li×2
- lu×2
- ne×1
- nu×1
- un×8
Words by first letter and length
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Σ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | · | 7 | 3 | 2 | · | · | · | 13 |
| e | · | 1 | · | 1 | · | · | · | · | 2 |
| f | 17 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 1 | · | · | 45 |
| i | · | · | 1 | 2 | 1 | · | · | · | 4 |
| l | 2 | · | 1 | · | 1 | · | · | · | 4 |
| n | · | · | · | 1 | · | 1 | · | · | 2 |
| u | · | 1 | · | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| Σ | 20 | 11 | 21 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 78 |
The numbers
Genius today takes 301 points of 431 available. The average answer runs 5.9 letters.
Word lengths, today vs. 20611 recorded answers
History
Today's letters, last seen
| Letter | Last in a puzzle | Last as center |
|---|---|---|
| d | Friday, September 25, 2026 | Friday, September 4, 2026 |
| e | Friday, September 25, 2026 | Sunday, August 30, 2026 |
| f ● | Thursday, September 17, 2026 | Wednesday, September 2, 2026 |
| i | Saturday, September 26, 2026 | Wednesday, September 23, 2026 |
| l | Thursday, September 24, 2026 | Monday, August 31, 2026 |
| n | Friday, September 25, 2026 | Tuesday, September 22, 2026 |
| u | Saturday, September 26, 2026 | Thursday, September 10, 2026 |
Most common answers, all recorded puzzles
- noon 47
- naan 38
- nana 38
- onion 33
- toot 33
- loll 30
- mama 29
- mamma 29
- acacia 28
- acai 28
- nene 28
- imam 26
- maim 26
- onto 26
- toon 26
- mini 26
- minim 26
- cancan 25
- canna 25
- cocoon 24
- lilt 24
- till 24
- tilt 24
- aria 24
- mitt 24
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.
- defi
- delf
- effendi
- feued
- fille
- flued
- fuelled
- fulfil
- fulled
- fundi
- funned
- funnelled
- lief
- lifeful
- neif
- nidified
- undefiled