Sunday, October 25, 2026
Edited by Sam Ezersky
- Words
- 66
- Points
- 282
- Genius
- 197
- Pangrams
- 2
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abloom
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amino
noun — The amine functional group.
adjective — Relating to an amine.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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ammo
noun — Ammunition.
verb — To load up on ammunition.
Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.
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ammonia
noun — A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste.
noun — A solution of this compound in water used domestically as a cleaning fluid.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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amnio
noun — Amniocentesis
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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anima
noun — The soul or animating principle of a living thing, especially as contrasted with the animus.
noun — (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) of a person that is in touch with the unconscious as opposed to the persona.
noun — (Jungian psychology) The unconscious feminine aspect of a person.
Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.
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bibliomania
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binomial
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imam
noun — (usually capitalized) A Shi'ite Muslim leader.
noun — One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.
Appeared in 27 recorded puzzles.
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lama
noun — A master of Tibetan Buddhism.
noun — A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.
Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.
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limn
verb — To draw or paint; to delineate.
verb — To illuminate, as a manuscript; to decorate with gold or some other bright colour.
Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.
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limo
noun — An automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front.
noun — An automobile with such a body.
noun — A luxury sedan or saloon car, especially one with a lengthened wheelbase or driven by a chauffeur.
noun — An automobile for transportation to or from an airport, including sedans, vans, and buses.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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llama
noun — A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.
Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.
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loam
noun — A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
verb — To cover, smear, or fill with loam.
adjective — Made of loam; consisting of loam.
noun — A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making moulds for large castings, often without a pattern.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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loom
noun — A utensil; tool; a weapon; (usually in compound) an article in general.
noun — Loon (bird of order Gaviiformes)
noun — A distorted appearance of something as seen indistinctly or from afar.
verb — To appear indistinctly, eg. when seen on the horizon or through the murk.
noun — A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making.
noun — The part of an oar which is between the grip or handle and the blade, the shaft.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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mail
noun — A bag or wallet.
verb — (ditransitive) To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail.
noun — Armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together.
verb — To arm with mail.
noun — An old French coin worth half a denier.
noun — A bag containing letters to be delivered by post.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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maim
noun — A serious wound
verb — To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.
Appeared in 27 recorded puzzles.
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main
verb — Short for mainline.
adjective — Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal.
adverb — Exceedingly, extremely, greatly, mightily, very, very much.
noun — That which is chief or principal; the chief or main portion; the bulk, the greater part, gross.
noun — A hand or match in a game of dice.
noun — A basket for gathering grapes.
Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.
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mall
noun — A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
verb — To beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise
noun — An enclosed shopping centre.
noun — An alley where the game of pall mall was played.
noun — A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade.
noun — A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall.
Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.
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mama
noun — (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.
Appeared in 31 recorded puzzles.
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mamma
noun — The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. (plural: mammae)
noun — (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.
noun — An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera
Appeared in 31 recorded puzzles.
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mammal
noun — An animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and feeding milk to its young.
noun — A vertebrate with three bones in the inner ear and one in the jaw.
Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.
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mammon
noun — The desire for wealth personified as an evil spirit or a malign influence.
noun — Often mammon: wealth, material avarice, profit.
Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.
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mania
noun — Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
noun — Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.
noun — The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.
Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.
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manna
noun — Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.
noun — (by extension) Any boon which comes into one's hands by good luck.
noun — The sugary sap of the manna gum tree which oozes out from holes drilled by insects and falls to the ground around the tree.http//www.museum.vic.gov.au/forest/plants/gum.html
Appeared in 26 recorded puzzles.
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mill
noun — A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
verb — (followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.
noun — A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.
noun — An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality, such as a divorce mill, a puppy mill, etc.
noun — An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised
noun — The building housing such a grinding apparatus.
Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.
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million
numeral — (long and short scales) The cardinal number 1,000,000: 106; a thousand thousand.
numeral — An unspecified very large number.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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mini
adjective — Miniature, tiny, small.
noun — A miniskirt.
noun — A minicomputer.
Appeared in 29 recorded puzzles.
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minim
noun — A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
noun — Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
noun — A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
noun — A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
noun — A little man or being; a dwarf.
noun — A small fish; a minnow.
Appeared in 29 recorded puzzles.
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minima
noun — The lowest limit.
noun — The smallest amount.
noun — A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star).
noun — A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
noun — The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution.
Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.
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minion
noun — The lowest limit.
noun — A loyal servant of another, usually a more powerful being.
adjective — Favoured, beloved; "pet".
noun — The smallest amount.
noun — A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star).
noun — A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.
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moan
noun — A low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure
verb — To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn.
verb — To grieve.
verb — To distress (someone); to sadden.
verb — To make a moan or similar sound.
verb — To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice.
Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.
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moil
noun — Hard work.
verb — To toil, to work hard.
noun — The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.
noun — Confusion, turmoil.
noun — A spot; a defilement.
verb — To churn continually; to swirl.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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moll
noun — A female companion of a gangster, especially a former or current prostitute.
adjective — Minor; in the minor mode
noun — A prostitute or woman with loose sexual morals.
noun — Bitch, slut; an insulting epithet applied to a female.
noun — A girlfriend of a bikie.
noun — A girlfriend of a surfie; blends with pejorative sense.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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momma
noun — Mother
noun — A voluptuous woman.
noun — One's wife or girlfriend.
Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.
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mono
noun — A viral infection marked by extreme fatigue, high fever, and swollen lymph nodes.
noun — A bicycle or motorcycle trick where the front wheel is lifted off the ground while riding
adjective — Monaural or monophonic; having only a single audio channel.
adjective — Monochrome.
noun — An injective homomorphism
noun — A monogamous person.
Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.
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monobob
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monomania
noun — Excessive interest or concentration on a singular object or subject.
noun — A pathological obsession with one person, thing or idea.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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moola
noun — Money, cash.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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moon
proper noun — The Earth's moon Luna; the sole natural satellite of the Earth, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☾.
noun — (by extension of Moon) Any natural satellite of a planet.
verb — To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest.
proper noun — The god of the Moon in Heathenry.
proper noun — A surname.
proper noun — The 54th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.
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nimbi
noun — A circle of light; a halo.
noun — A gray rain cloud.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
Hints, no spoilers
Words by first two letters
- ab×1
- am×4
- an×2
- ba×2
- bi×2
- bl×2
- bo×2
- ia×2
- im×1
- la×4
- li×6
- ll×1
- lo×2
- ma×15
- mi×7
- mo×10
- ni×1
- no×1
- oi×1
Words by first letter and length
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 11 | Σ | |
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| a | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | · | · | · | 7 |
| b | 4 | 1 | 1 | · | 1 | · | 1 | 8 |
| i | 2 | 1 | · | · | · | · | · | 3 |
| l | 8 | 2 | 1 | 2 | · | · | · | 13 |
| m | 12 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | · | 32 |
| n | · | 1 | · | 1 | · | · | · | 2 |
| o | · | · | 1 | · | · | · | · | 1 |
| Σ | 27 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 66 |
The numbers
Genius today takes 197 points of 282 available. The average answer runs 5.3 letters.
Word lengths, today vs. 21883 recorded answers
History
Today's letters, last seen
| Letter | Last in a puzzle | Last as center |
|---|---|---|
| a | Saturday, October 24, 2026 | Wednesday, October 7, 2026 |
| b | Thursday, October 22, 2026 | Sunday, October 11, 2026 |
| i | Saturday, October 24, 2026 | Sunday, October 18, 2026 |
| l | Saturday, October 24, 2026 | Friday, October 23, 2026 |
| m ● | Tuesday, October 20, 2026 | Saturday, October 17, 2026 |
| n | Tuesday, October 20, 2026 | Thursday, October 15, 2026 |
| o | Friday, October 23, 2026 | Saturday, September 26, 2026 |
Most common answers, all recorded puzzles
- noon 47
- naan 40
- nana 40
- onion 34
- toot 33
- loll 31
- mama 31
- mamma 31
- acacia 30
- acai 30
- mini 29
- minim 29
- nene 29
- imam 27
- maim 27
- cancan 27
- canna 27
- lilt 26
- till 26
- tilt 26
- onto 26
- toon 26
- manna 26
- tint 26
- cocoon 25
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.
- aboma
- alamo
- alma
- amain
- ambo
- amboina
- amia
- amin
- ammino
- ammonal
- ammono
- amnia
- amnion
- animi
- baalim
- bambini
- bambino
- bima
- bimbo
- imbalm
- imino
- lamia
- liman
- limba
- limbi
- limina
- maill
- malm
- mammilla
- mana
- manana
- manilla
- mannan
- mano
- milia
- milo
- mina
- minilab
- minimill
- mola
- molal
- momi
- mool
- noma
- nomina
- nomoi
- nonanimal
- nonman