Wednesday, November 4, 2026
Edited by Sam Ezersky
- Words
- 68
- Points
- 286
- Genius
- 200
- Pangram
- 1
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ahoy
noun — An utterance of this interjection.
verb — To hail with a cry of "ahoy".
interjection — Used to hail a ship, a boat or a person, or to attract attention.
interjection — Warning of something approaching or impending.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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aorta
noun — The great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system.
noun — The liveliest part of something.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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arroyo
noun — A dry creek or streambed, a gulch which temporarily or seasonally fills and flows (after sufficient rain).
noun — Any watercourse; any rivulet (whether it flows year-round or only seasonally).
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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atrophy
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hoar
noun — A white or greyish-white colour.
verb — To become mouldy or musty.
adjective — Of a white or greyish-white colour.
noun — Hoariness; antiquity.
adjective — Hoarily bearded.
adjective — Musty; mouldy; stale.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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hoary
adjective — White, whitish, or greyish-white.
adjective — White or grey with age.
adjective — Of a pale silvery grey.
adjective — Covered with short, dense, greyish white hairs; canescent.
adjective — Remote in time past.
adjective — Moldy; mossy; musty.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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hooray
noun — A shout to signify victory.
verb — To shout an expression of excitement.
interjection — Used to express approval, joy or victory.
noun — An expression of excitement.
Appeared in 2 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 15 recorded puzzles.
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hoppy
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hora
noun — A circle dance popular in the Balkans, Israel and Yiddish culture worldwide.
noun — A branch of traditional Indian astrology, dealing with the finer points of predictive methods.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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horror
noun — An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
noun — Something horrible; that which excites horror.
noun — Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
noun — A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
noun — An individual work in this genre.
noun — A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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hortatory
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hypo
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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 10 recorded puzzles.
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pharaoh
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poop
noun — Fecal matter, feces.
verb — To make a short blast on a horn
noun — A set of data or general information, written or spoken, usually concerning machinery or a process.
verb — To tire, exhaust. Often used with out.
noun — The stern of a ship.
verb — To break seawater with the poop of a vessel, especially the poop deck.
Appeared in 16 recorded puzzles.
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poor
noun — (with "the") Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.
adjective — With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
adjective — Of low quality.
adjective — Used to express pity.
adjective — Deficient in a specified way.
adjective — Inadequate, insufficient.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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poppy
noun — Any plant of the genus Papaver or the family Papaveraceae, with crumpled, often red, petals and a milky juice having narcotic properties; especially the common poppy or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) which has orange-red flowers; the flower of such a plant.
adjective — Of a bright red colour tinted with orange, like that of the common poppy flower (Papaver rhoeas).
adjective — Having a popping or bursting sound.
adjective — Popular.
noun — One's father or grandfather, or a male authority figure having similar standing.
noun — A bright red colour tinted with orange, like that of the common poppy flower.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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prop
noun — An object placed against or under another, to support it; anything that supports.
verb — (sometimes figurative) To support or shore up something.
noun — An item placed on a stage or set to create a scene or scenario in which actors perform.
noun — The propeller of an aircraft.
verb — To manually start the engine of a propeller-driven aircraft with no electric starter by pulling vigorously on one of the propeller blades using the hands, so that the propeller can catch ignition.
noun — A proposition, especially on an election-day ballot.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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pyro
noun — A pyromaniac
adjective — Pyromaniac, pyromaniacal
noun — Pyrocellulose
noun — Pyrotechnician
noun — Pyrotechnics
noun — Pyrogallic acid
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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roar
noun — A long, loud, deep shout, as of rage or laughter, made with the mouth wide open.
verb — To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
verb — To laugh in a particularly loud manner.
noun — A loud resounding noise.
verb — Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise.
verb — Of animals (especially the lion), to make a loud deep noise.
Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.
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root
noun — The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
verb — To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
noun — An act of sexual intercourse.
verb — To turn up or dig with the snout.
verb — (with "for" or "on") To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
noun — A root vegetable.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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ropy
adjective — Resembling rope in appearance or texture, used especially of muscles that are thick or hard to the touch.
adjective — Capable of forming rope-like or thread-like structures.
adjective — Of poor quality; in poor health.
adjective — (of milk or another liquid) Slimy, as after the action of Enterobacter aerogenes in syrup.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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rotary
noun — A traffic circle.
adjective — Capable of rotation.
noun — (chiefly with initial capital) Any of the clubs making up the international Rotary International movement for community service.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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rotor
noun — A rotating part of a mechanical device, for example in an electric motor, generator, alternator or pump.
noun — The wing of a helicopter or similar aircraft.
noun — A quantity having magnitude, direction and position.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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taro
noun — Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.
noun — Any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia, Alocasia etc.
noun — Food from a taro plant.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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tarot
noun — (singular or plural) A card game played in various different variations.
noun — Any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination.
Appeared in 6 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 18 recorded puzzles.
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throaty
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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 34 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 15 recorded puzzles.
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toro
noun — A traditional Japanese lantern.
noun — Rapanea salicina, a species of shrub or small tree native to New Zealand.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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tort
noun — An injury or wrong.
adjective — Tart; sharp.
adjective — Stretched tight; taut.
noun — A tortoise.
noun — A tortoiseshell (animal with coloured markings on fur).
noun — A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, which causes an injury and can be remedied in civil court, usually through the awarding of damages.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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trophy
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trot
noun — Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.
noun — Heroin (drug).
noun — An ugly old woman, a hag.
verb — To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.
noun — A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.
noun — A supporter of Trotskyism.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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troy
adjective — Of, or relating to, troy weight.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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tyro
noun — A beginner; a novice.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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yahoo
noun — A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth person; yokel; lout.
verb — To give a cry of "yahoo".
interjection — An exclamation of joy or enjoyment.
noun — A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.
verb — To search using the Yahoo! search engine.
interjection — A battle cry.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
atrophy is a perfect pangram — all seven letters, each used exactly once.
Hints, no spoilers
Words by first two letters
- ah×1
- ao×1
- ar×1
- at×2
- ho×11
- hy×1
- oa×2
- or×2
- pa×2
- ph×2
- po×9
- pr×1
- py×1
- ra×2
- ro×7
- ta×4
- th×2
- to×8
- tr×5
- ty×2
- ya×1
- yo×1
Words by first letter and length
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Σ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | · | · | 5 |
| h | 5 | 2 | 4 | · | · | 1 | 12 |
| o | 2 | · | 1 | 1 | · | · | 4 |
| p | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | · | 1 | 15 |
| r | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | · | 9 |
| t | 8 | 6 | 5 | 2 | · | · | 21 |
| y | · | 1 | 1 | · | · | · | 2 |
| Σ | 26 | 15 | 16 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 68 |
The numbers
Genius today takes 200 points of 286 available. The average answer runs 5.2 letters.
Word lengths, today vs. 22425 recorded answers
History
Today's letters, last seen
| Letter | Last in a puzzle | Last as center |
|---|---|---|
| a | Tuesday, November 3, 2026 | Saturday, October 31, 2026 |
| h | Saturday, October 31, 2026 | Thursday, October 22, 2026 |
| o ● | Sunday, November 1, 2026 | Saturday, September 26, 2026 |
| p | Sunday, November 1, 2026 | Saturday, October 24, 2026 |
| r | Thursday, October 29, 2026 | Thursday, October 29, 2026 |
| t | Tuesday, November 3, 2026 | Friday, October 2, 2026 |
| y | Tuesday, October 27, 2026 | Friday, October 9, 2026 |
Most common answers, all recorded puzzles
- noon 47
- naan 42
- nana 42
- onion 34
- toot 34
- acacia 31
- acai 31
- loll 31
- mama 31
- mamma 31
- mini 29
- minim 29
- nene 29
- cancan 28
- canna 28
- lilt 27
- till 27
- tilt 27
- imam 27
- maim 27
- cocoon 26
- onto 26
- toon 26
- natant 26
- manna 26
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.
- aport
- arthropathy
- atopy
- haphtarot
- haphtaroth
- hoopoo
- hooty
- horah
- horary
- hoya
- opah
- orra
- ortho
- ottar
- otto
- parroty
- payor
- phot
- porphyry
- potatory
- potto
- prao
- proa
- prototroph
- prototrophy
- rato
- rooty
- rota
- roto
- ryot
- thoro
- thorp
- thro
- toph
- tora
- torot
- toroth
- torr
- tory
- toyo
- trop