Sunday, October 11, 2026
Edited by Sam Ezersky
- Words
- 51
- Points
- 187
- Genius
- 130
- Pangram
- 1
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abbot
noun — The superior or head of an abbey or monastery.
noun — The pastor and/or administrator of an order, including minor and major orders starting with the minor order of porter.
noun — A layman who received the abbey's revenues, after the closing of the monasteries.
noun — (British slang) A brothel-owner's husband or lover.
noun — (British slang) A ponce; a man employed by a prostitute to find clients, and who may also act as a bodyguard or equivalent to a bouncer.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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about
adjective — Moving around; astir.
adverb — On all sides; around.
preposition — In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of.
adjective — In existence; being in evidence; apparent.
adjective — Near; in the vicinity or neighbourhood.
adverb — Here and there; around; in one place and another; up and down.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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abut
verb — To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land)
verb — To lean against on one end; to end on, of a part of a building or wall.
verb — To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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baba
noun — A kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup.
noun — (esp. among people of East European ancestry) A grandmother.
noun — An old woman, especially a traditional old woman from an eastern European culture.
noun — (esp. among people of Indian ancestry) A father.
noun — (Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism) A holy man, a spiritual leader.
noun — A baby, child.
Appeared in 23 recorded puzzles.
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ball
noun — A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
noun — A round or ellipsoidal object.
verb — To play basketball.
noun — A very enjoyable time.
verb — To form or wind into a ball.
noun — A formal dance.
Appeared in 21 recorded puzzles.
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banana
noun — An elongated curved tropical fruit that grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.
adjective — Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.
noun — The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas. The plant, usually of the genus Musa but sometimes also including plants from Ensete, has large, elongated leaves and is related to the plantain.
noun — A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.
noun — (mildly) A person of Asian descent, especially a Chinese American, who has assimilated into Western culture or married a Caucasian (from the "yellow" outside and "white" inside). Compare coconut or Oreo.
noun — A banana equivalent dose.
Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.
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baobab
noun — A tree, Adansonia digitata (and similar species), native to tropical Africa, having a broad swollen trunk and edible gourd-like hanging fruits.
Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.
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blab
verb — To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.
noun — Gossip; prattle.
noun — One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale; a gossip or gossiper.
Appeared in 21 recorded puzzles.
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blat
verb — To make a senseless noise.
verb — To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat.
verb — To produce an overrich or overblown sound on a brass instrument such as a trumpet, trombone, or tuba.
verb — To talk inconsiderately.
noun — Connections; relationships; one's social or business network (in Russian or Soviet society).
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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blatant
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blob
noun — A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.
verb — To drop in the form of a blob or blobs
noun — Acronym of binary large object. (a data type that allows storage of binary data often of indeterminate length).
noun — In astronomy, a large cloud of gas. In particular, an extended Lyman-Alpha blob is a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy.
noun — A bubble; a bleb.
noun — A small freshwater fish (Cottus bairdii); the miller's thumb.
Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.
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blunt
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boat
noun — A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind.
verb — To travel by boat.
noun — A full house.
noun — A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.
noun — One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.
noun — The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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boba
noun — Short for boba tea.
noun — A small edible ball made primarily from tapioca starch; used in bubble tea.
Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.
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boll
noun — The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
verb — To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
noun — An old dry measure equal to six bushels.
Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.
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bolo
noun — A long, heavy, single-edged machete.
verb — To attack or despatch with a bolo knife.
noun — A soldier not capable of the minimum standards of marksmanship.
verb — To fail to meet the minimum standards of marksmanship.
noun — A string or leather necktie secured with an ornamental slide.
verb — To dress (somebody) in a bolo.
Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.
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bonbon
noun — A sweet, especially a small chocolate-covered candy.
noun — A small, spherical savory snack or canapé.
noun — A Christmas cracker.
Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.
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bonobo
noun — The pygmy chimpanzee, Pan paniscus, from Africa south of the Congo river.
Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.
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boob
noun — Idiot, fool.
verb — To behave stupidly; to act like a boob.
adjective — Idiotic, foolish.
noun — A breast, especially that of an adult or adolescent human female.
noun — A prison; jail.
verb — To make a mistake
Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.
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booboo
noun — A mistake or error.
noun — (by or to young children) A minor injury, such as a cut or a bruise.
noun — (by or to young children) Feces.
Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.
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boon
noun — A prayer; petition.
adjective — Good; prosperous.
noun — The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
noun — That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.
noun — A good thing; a blessing or benefit; a thing to be thankful for.
noun — An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.
Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.
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boot
noun — A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
verb — To kick.
noun — Remedy, amends.
verb — To avail, benefit, profit.
noun — The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device.
verb — To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.
Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.
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bout
noun — A period of something, usually painful or unpleasant.
verb — To contest a bout.
preposition — In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of.
noun — A boxing match.
noun — An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.
noun — A roller derby match.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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bubba
noun — Brother; used as term of familiar address.
noun — A working-class white male from the southern US, stereotyped as loutish.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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bulb
noun — Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.
verb — To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.
noun — A light bulb.
noun — The bulb-shaped root portion of a plant such as a tulip, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown.
noun — A bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of certain vessels to reduce turbulence.
noun — The medulla oblongata.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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bull
noun — An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.
adjective — Large and strong, like a bull.
noun — The centre of a target, inside the inner and magpie.
noun — The faeces of a bull.
verb — To force oneself (in a particular direction).
noun — A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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bunt
noun — The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
verb — To push with the horns; to butt.
noun — A push or shove; a butt.
noun — A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved.
noun — The act of bunting.
noun — The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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butanol
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butt
noun — The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end
verb — To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
noun — A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
verb — To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
noun — (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun; equivalent to the pipe.
noun — Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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button
noun — One who adjusts, especially for the insurance industry's employment title "loss adjuster" (or "claims adjuster" in the United States).
noun — A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
noun — In a violin-family instrument, the carved wooden plug which sits in the bottom block of the instrument.
verb — To fasten with a button.
noun — A mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
noun — An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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lobo
noun — A wolf.
Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.
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noob
noun — (often pejorative) A newb or newbie; refers to the idea that someone is new to a game, concept, or idea; implying a lack of experience. Also, in some areas the word noob can mean someone is obsessed with things.
Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.
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tabla
noun — A pair of tuned hand drums, used in various musical genres of the Indian subcontinent, that are similar to bongos.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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taboo
noun — An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.
verb — To mark as taboo.
adjective — Excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention.
noun — (in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred.
verb — To ban.
verb — To avoid.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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tuba
noun — A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys.
noun — A Malayan plant whose roots are a significant source of rotenone, Derris malaccensis.
noun — A reddish palm wine made from coconut or nipa sap.
noun — A tube or tubular organ.
noun — A type of Roman military trumpet, distinct from the modern tuba.
noun — A large reed stop in organs.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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tubal
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unban
verb — To lift a ban against.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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unbolt
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unbutton
verb — To open (something) by undoing its buttons.
verb — To come open by having its buttons unfastened.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
butanol is a perfect pangram — all seven letters, each used exactly once.
Hints, no spoilers
Words by first two letters
- ab×3
- ba×9
- bl×8
- bo×13
- bu×7
- lo×1
- na×2
- no×1
- ta×2
- tu×2
- un×3
Words by first letter and length
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Σ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 2 | · | · | · | 3 |
| b | 20 | 5 | 9 | 3 | · | 37 |
| l | 1 | · | · | · | · | 1 |
| n | 1 | 1 | · | 1 | · | 3 |
| t | 1 | 3 | · | · | · | 4 |
| u | · | 1 | 1 | · | 1 | 3 |
| Σ | 24 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 51 |
The numbers
Genius today takes 130 points of 187 available. The average answer runs 4.9 letters.
Word lengths, today vs. 21231 recorded answers
History
Today's letters, last seen
| Letter | Last in a puzzle | Last as center |
|---|---|---|
| a | Saturday, October 10, 2026 | Wednesday, October 7, 2026 |
| b ● | Wednesday, October 7, 2026 | Saturday, September 19, 2026 |
| l | Friday, October 9, 2026 | Monday, August 31, 2026 |
| n | Friday, October 9, 2026 | Thursday, October 8, 2026 |
| o | Saturday, October 10, 2026 | Saturday, September 26, 2026 |
| t | Saturday, October 10, 2026 | Friday, October 2, 2026 |
| u | Monday, September 28, 2026 | Thursday, September 10, 2026 |
Most common answers, all recorded puzzles
- noon 47
- naan 39
- nana 39
- onion 33
- toot 33
- acacia 30
- acai 30
- loll 30
- mama 29
- mamma 29
- nene 29
- mini 27
- minim 27
- imam 26
- maim 26
- onto 26
- toon 26
- cancan 26
- canna 26
- cocoon 25
- lilt 25
- till 25
- tilt 25
- mitt 25
- natant 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.
- abba
- ablaut
- abolla
- aboon
- abuttal
- alba
- albata
- atabal
- baal
- baboo
- babool
- babu
- babul
- balata
- balboa
- ballon
- batt
- battu
- blub
- bota
- bott
- boubou
- bouton
- bubal
- bubo
- bulbul
- bulla
- bullbat
- bunn
- buttonball
- butut
- obol
- tabu
- tabun