Sunday, September 20, 2026
Edited by Sam Ezersky
- Words
- 79
- Points
- 353
- Genius
- 247
- Pangrams
- 2
Official answers
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ache
verb — To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.
noun — Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.
verb — To cause someone or something to suffer pain.
noun — The name of the Latin-script letter H.
noun — Parsley
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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athlete
noun — A participant in a group of sporting activities which includes track and field, road running, cross country running and racewalking.
noun — A person who actively participates in physical sports, especially with great skill; a sportsperson.
noun — An exceptionally physically fit person.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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athletic
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attach
verb — To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
verb — To adhere; to be attached.
verb — To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
verb — To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; with to.
verb — To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
verb — To take, seize, or lay hold of.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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attache
noun — A diplomatic officer, usually one who plays a specific role.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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cache
noun — A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
noun — A store of things that may be required in the future, which can be retrieved rapidly, protected or hidden in some way.
noun — (geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
verb — To place in a cache.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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cachet
noun — A seal, as of a letter.
verb — To mark (an envelope) with a commemorative stamped design or inscription.
noun — A special characteristic or quality; prestige.
noun — A commemorative stamped design or inscription on an envelope, other than a cancellation or pre-printed postage.
noun — A sealed envelope containing an item whose price is being negotiated.
noun — A capsule containing a pharmaceutical preparation.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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catch
noun — The act of seizing or capturing.
verb — (heading) To capture, overtake.
noun — The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
noun — The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
noun — The game of catching a ball.
noun — Something which is captured or caught.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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catchall
noun — Any place or repository where things are placed indiscriminately or without careful thought.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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chalet
noun — An alpine style of wooden building with a sloping roof and overhanging eaves.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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challah
noun — A traditional bread eaten by Ashkenazi Jews, usually braided for the Sabbath and round for Yom Tov.
noun — The commandment to separate a portion of bread or bread dough for the cohanim (Numbers 15:17–21); in contemporary practice, the portion is burned until inedible.
noun — The portion separated in fulfillment of the above.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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chat
noun — Informal conversation.
verb — To be engaged in informal conversation.
noun — A small potato, such as is given to swine.
noun — (local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
noun — A louse (small, parasitic insect).
noun — Any savory snack, sold from a roadside stall in India, or served as a starter in an Indian restaurant
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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chattel
noun — Tangible, movable property.
noun — A slave.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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cheat
verb — To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
noun — Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
verb — To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
verb — To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
verb — To deceive; to fool; to trick.
noun — An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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cheetah
noun — A distinctive member (Acinonyx jubatus) of the cat family, slightly smaller than the leopard, but with proportionately longer limbs and a smaller head. It is native to Africa and also credited with being the fastest terrestrial animal.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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each
pronoun — Every one; every thing.
adverb — For one; apiece; per.
noun — (operations) An individual item: the least quantitative unit in a grouping.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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etch
verb — To cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern. Best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards.
noun — An aftergrowth of grass (or other plants) which grows after it has been been mowed; also, a field of such growth.
verb — To engrave a surface.
verb — To make a lasting impression.
verb — To sketch; to delineate.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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ethical
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halal
verb — To make halal.
adjective — Permissible, according to Muslim religious customs, to have or do.
adverb — In a halal manner; in accordance with Muslim religious customs.
adjective — (of food) Fit to eat according to Muslim religious customs.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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hale
noun — Health, welfare.
adjective — Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.
verb — To drag or pull, especially forcibly.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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hall
noun — A corridor; a hallway.
noun — A meeting room.
noun — A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).
noun — A building providing student accommodation at a university.
noun — The principal room of a secular medieval building.
noun — Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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halt
verb — To limp; move with a limping gait.
noun — A cessation, either temporary or permanent.
verb — To stop marching.
noun — Lameness; a limp.
adjective — Lame, limping.
verb — To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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hatch
noun — A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
verb — To close with a hatch or hatches.
noun — The act of hatching.
verb — (of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
verb — To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch).
noun — A trapdoor.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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hatchet
noun — A small light axe with a short handle; a tomahawk.
verb — To cut with a hatchet.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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hate
noun — An object of hatred.
verb — To dislike intensely or greatly.
noun — Hatred.
noun — Negative feedback, abusive behaviour.
verb — To experience hatred.
Appeared in 5 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 12 recorded puzzles.
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heal
noun — A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment.
verb — To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
verb — To hide, conceal, and keep secret, especially for a secret society (such as the masons).
noun — Health
verb — To become better or healthy again.
verb — To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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health
noun — The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness.
noun — A warrior; hero; man.
noun — A state of well-being or balance, often physical but sometimes also mental and social; the overall level of function of an organism from the cellular (micro) level to the social (macro) level.
noun — Physical condition.
noun — Cure, remedy.
noun — A toast to prosperity.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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heat
noun — Thermal energy.
verb — To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
noun — The condition or quality of being hot.
noun — An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
noun — A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
noun — An undesirable amount of attention.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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heath
noun — A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
noun — Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
noun — Certain butterflies and moths
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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heel
noun — The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg.
verb — To follow at somebody's heels; to chase closely.
noun — The act of inclining or canting from a vertical position; a cant.
verb — To incline to one side; to tilt.
verb — To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
verb — To hide, conceal, and keep secret, especially for a secret society (such as the masons).
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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hellcat
noun — A witch.
noun — A spiteful and violent person, especially a woman.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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hill
noun — An elevated location smaller than a mountain.
verb — To form into a heap or mound.
noun — A sloping road.
noun — A heap of earth surrounding a plant.
noun — A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.
noun — The pitcher’s mound.
Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.
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hilt
noun — The handle of a sword, consisting of grip, guard, and pommel, designed to facilitate use of the blade and afford protection to the hand.
verb — To provide with a hilt.
noun — The base of the penis.
verb — To insert (a bodily extremity) as far as it can go into a sexual orifice so that it is impeded by the wider base to which it is attached (finger until palm, penis until pelvis).
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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latch
verb — To close or lock as if with a latch.
noun — A fastening for a door that has a bar that fits into a notch or slot, and is lifted by a lever or string from either side.
verb — To smear; to anoint.
verb — To catch; lay hold of.
noun — A flip-flop electronic circuit
noun — A latching.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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lath
noun — A thin, narrow strip, fastened to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting a covering of tiles, plastering, etc.
verb — To cover or line with laths
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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lathe
verb — To invite; bid; ask.
noun — An administrative division of the county of Kent, in England, from the Anglo-Saxon period until it fell entirely out of use in the early twentieth century.
noun — A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.
verb — To shape with a lathe.
noun — The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; a lay, or batten.
noun — A granary; a barn.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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leach
verb — To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.
verb — To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
noun — A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.
noun — An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
noun — A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
noun — A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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lech
noun — A strong, lecherous desire or craving.
verb — To behave lecherously
noun — A lecher.
noun — The capstone of a cromlech.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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leech
noun — An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
noun — A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.
verb — To drain (resources) without giving back.
noun — The vertical edge of a square sail.
noun — The aft edge of a triangular sail.
noun — A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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lethal
noun — Any weapon that causes death.
adjective — Deadly; mortal; fatal.
noun — One of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid.
noun — An allele that causes the death of the organism that carries it.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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litchi
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tach
noun — Tachometer
noun — (costers) A hat.
noun — Tachycardia.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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teach
verb — To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate.
noun — (usually as a term of address) teacher
verb — (ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.
verb — To pass on knowledge, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.
verb — (ditransitive) To cause to learn or understand.
verb — (ditransitive) To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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tech
noun — Technology
noun — Technician
noun — Technique
noun — (used in titles) technical college
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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teeth
noun — The ability to be enforced, or to be enforced to any useful effect.
verb — To grow teeth.
noun — A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for eating.
verb — To bite on something to relieve discomfort caused by growing 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.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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teethe
verb — To grow teeth.
verb — To bite on something to relieve discomfort caused by growing teeth.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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telehealth
noun — Healthcare facilitated by telecommunication technology.
Appeared in 2 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 12 recorded puzzles.
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thatch
noun — Straw, rushes, or similar, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
verb — To cover the roof with straw, reed, leaves, etc.
noun — Any of several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.
noun — A buildup of cut grass, stolons or other material on the soil in a lawn.
noun — (by extension) Any straw-like material, such as a person's hair.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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thee
verb — To address (a person) using the pronoun thee.
pronoun — Objective and reflexive case of thou.
verb — To thrive; prosper.
noun — The letter ⟨(⟩, which stands for the th sound /ð/ in Pitman shorthand.
verb — To use the word thee.
pronoun — Thou.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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theta
noun — The eighth letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, ninth in Old Greek: Θ, θ.
noun — The measure of an angle.
noun — The sensitivity of the value of a derivative with respect to time; the "time decay".
noun — Designating a level of brain activity as measured by electroencephalography having a frequency of between four and seven cycles per second (associated with drowsiness in adults).
noun — The voiceless dental fricative represented by θ.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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tilth
noun — Agricultural labour; husbandry.
noun — The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture.
noun — Rich cultivated soil.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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tithe
noun — A tenth.
verb — To give one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly:
adjective — Tenth.
noun — A boon (a grant or concession).
verb — To grant, concede.
adjective — Receiving a concession or grant; successful in prayer or request.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
ethical is a perfect pangram — all seven letters, each used exactly once.
Hints, no spoilers
Words by first two letters
- ac×1
- at×4
- ca×4
- ch×17
- cl×1
- ea×1
- et×3
- ha×11
- he×10
- hi×4
- it×1
- la×3
- le×4
- li×2
- ta×1
- te×6
- th×4
- ti×2
Words by first letter and length
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 10 | Σ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | · | 1 | 2 | 1 | · | 5 |
| c | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 2 | · | 22 |
| e | 2 | 1 | · | 1 | · | · | 4 |
| h | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | · | 25 |
| i | 1 | · | · | · | · | · | 1 |
| l | 2 | 5 | 2 | · | · | · | 9 |
| t | 4 | 5 | 3 | · | · | 1 | 13 |
| Σ | 27 | 22 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 79 |
The numbers
Genius today takes 247 points of 353 available. The average answer runs 5.3 letters.
Word lengths, today vs. 20260 recorded answers
History
Today's letters, last seen
| Letter | Last in a puzzle | Last as center |
|---|---|---|
| a | Friday, September 18, 2026 | Friday, September 18, 2026 |
| c | Friday, September 18, 2026 | Sunday, August 16, 2026 |
| e | Wednesday, September 16, 2026 | Sunday, August 30, 2026 |
| h ● | Friday, September 11, 2026 | Sunday, August 9, 2026 |
| i | Saturday, September 19, 2026 | Saturday, September 12, 2026 |
| l | Saturday, September 19, 2026 | Monday, August 31, 2026 |
| t | Saturday, September 19, 2026 | Thursday, September 3, 2026 |
Most common answers, all recorded puzzles
- noon 46
- naan 37
- nana 37
- onion 32
- toot 32
- loll 30
- mama 29
- mamma 29
- acacia 27
- acai 27
- imam 26
- maim 26
- mini 26
- minim 26
- nene 26
- onto 25
- toon 25
- cocoon 24
- lilt 24
- till 24
- tilt 24
- aria 24
- mitt 24
- natant 24
- cancan 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.
- achillea
- aitch
- allheal
- althaea
- althea
- cachectic
- calathi
- caleche
- caliche
- catechetical
- cathect
- cathectic
- chaeta
- chaetae
- chaetal
- chalah
- chaleh
- challa
- challie
- chela
- chelae
- chelate
- chetah
- cheth
- chiel
- chile
- chilli
- chital
- clach
- eath
- eche
- echelle
- elhi
- haet
- haha
- halacha
- halala
- halalah
- hallah
- hallel
- hatchel
- hectical
- heil
- heliac
- heth
- hila
- hili
- laich
- laith
- latchet
- lathi
- leachate
- letch
- lethe
- lich
- lichee
- lichi
- licht
- lithia
- lithic
- tache
- tallith
- teth
- thae
- thalli
- thallic
- theca
- thecae
- thecal
- thecate
- thetic
- thetical
- thill