Saturday, September 19, 2026
Edited by Sam Ezersky
- Words
- 58
- Points
- 309
- Genius
- 216
- Pangrams
- 4
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bigot
noun — One who is narrow-mindedly devoted to one's own ideas and groups, and intolerant of (people of) differing ideas, races, genders, religions, politics, etc.
noun — One who is overly pious in matters of religion, often hypocritically or else superstitiously so.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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bill
noun — A piece of paper money; a banknote.
noun — A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.
verb — To charge; to send a bill to.
noun — A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
noun — The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
noun — Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
Appeared in 23 recorded puzzles.
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billion
noun — (modern British & Australian, short scale) a thousand million (logic: 1,000 × 1,000^2): 1 followed by nine zeros, 109; a milliard
noun — (British & Australian, long scale) A million million (logic: 1,000,000^2): a 1 followed by twelve zeros; 1012
noun — An unspecified very large number.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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biltong
No cached definition. Look it up on Wiktionary.
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binging
verb — To engage in a short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol consumption.
verb — To go; walk; come; run
verb — Making the sound of a bounce
verb — To bounce
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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bingo
noun — A game of chance for two or more players, who mark off numbers on a grid as they are announced by the caller; the game is won by the first person to call out "bingo!" or "house!" after crossing off all numbers on the grid or in one line of the grid.
verb — To play the game of bingo.
adjective — Just sufficient to return to base (or, alternatively, to divert to an alternative airfield). (also written Bingo or BINGO)
interjection — Used by players of bingo to claim a win.
noun — Brandy.
noun — A win in such a game.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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binning
verb — To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
noun — A data pre-processing technique in which original data values fall into a small interval ("bin") and are replaced by a value representative of that interval, often the central value. Wp
verb — To throw away, reject, give up.
verb — To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
verb — To place into a bin for storage.
noun — The process of grouping reads or contigs and assigning them to operational taxonomic units. Wp
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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biotin
noun — A sulfur-containing member of the vitamin B complex, 5-[(3aS,4S,6aR)-2-oxohexahydro-1H-thieno[3,4-d]imidazol-4-yl]pentanoic acid, found in liver, egg yolk, milk and yeast, essential to the activity of multiple enzyme systems.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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biting
verb — To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
noun — An instance of something being bitten.
adjective — Causing a stinging sensation.
verb — To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
verb — To attack with the teeth.
verb — To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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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 10 recorded puzzles.
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blotting
No cached definition. Look it up on Wiktionary.
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bobbin
noun — A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.
noun — In a sewing machine, the small spool that holds the lower thread.
noun — The little rounded piece of wood at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
noun — (haberdashery) A fine cord or narrow braid.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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bobbing
verb — To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water, or similar medium.
verb — To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
noun — The motion of something that bobs.
verb — To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
verb — To curtsy.
verb — To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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bogging
verb — (now often with "down") To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
verb — To provoke, to bug.
verb — (usually with "off") To go away.
adjective — Stinking; disgusting.
verb — To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
verb — (now often with "down") To sink and stick in bogland.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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boil
noun — A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
noun — The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.
verb — (of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
noun — A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.
noun — The collective noun for a group of hawks.
verb — To cook in boiling water.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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boing
noun — The sound made by an elastic object (such as a spring) when bouncing; the sound of a bounce.
verb — To make a boing sound or bouncing motion.
Appeared in 3 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 10 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 10 recorded puzzles.
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bolting
No cached definition. Look it up on Wiktionary.
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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 11 recorded puzzles.
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bong
noun — The clang of a large bell.
verb — To pull a bell.
noun — A vessel, usually made of glass or ceramic and filled with water, used in smoking various substances; especially marijuana or pot.
noun — A very wide piton.
noun — (thieves' cant) A purse.
noun — An Australian Aboriginal person.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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bongo
noun — A striped bovine mammal found in Africa, Tragelaphus eurycerus.
noun — Either of a pair of small drums of Cuban origin, played by beating with the hands.
verb — To play the bongo drums.
verb — Of the heart, etc.: to beat with an irregular rhythm.
verb — To hit something rhythmically with the hands.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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boning
verb — To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
verb — To apprehend, steal.
verb — To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
noun — The removal of bones from a carcass; filleting.
verb — To fertilize with bone.
verb — To put whalebone into.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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bonito
noun — Any of various marine fish of the genus Sarda, that are related to and resemble the tuna.
noun — A large tropical fish, the skipjack tuna, allied to the tunny, Katsuwonus pelamis.
noun — The medregal (Seriola fasciata), an edible fish of the southern of the United States and the West Indies.
noun — The cobia or crab eater (Rachycentron canadum), an edible fish of warm waters globally.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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bonobo
noun — The pygmy chimpanzee, Pan paniscus, from Africa south of the Congo river.
Appeared in 11 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 13 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 13 recorded puzzles.
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booing
verb — To shout extended boos derisively.
noun — A disapproving exclamation by a member of an audience.
verb — To shout extended boos at, as a form of derision.
Appeared in 3 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 11 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 9 recorded puzzles.
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booting
verb — To kick.
verb — To avail, benefit, profit.
verb — To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.
noun — A kicking, as with a booted foot.
verb — To put boots on, especially for riding.
verb — To apply corporal punishment (compare slippering).
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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bottling
No cached definition. Look it up on Wiktionary.
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gibbon
noun — A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which it uses to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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gibing
verb — Alternative spelling of gybe
noun — A gibe.
verb — Alternative spelling of jibe
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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lobo
noun — A wolf.
Appeared in 10 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 11 recorded puzzles.
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obit
noun — Death of a person.
noun — An obituary.
noun — A mass or other service held for the soul of a dead person.
noun — A record of a person's death.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
biltong, bolting are perfect pangrams — all seven letters, each used exactly once.
Hints, no spoilers
Words by first two letters
- bi×10
- bl×10
- bo×25
- gi×2
- gl×2
- go×2
- lo×2
- ni×1
- no×1
- ob×3
Words by first letter and length
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Σ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| b | 13 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 45 |
| g | 2 | · | 3 | · | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | · | · | 1 | · | 2 |
| n | 1 | · | · | · | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | · | 1 | · | 1 | 3 |
| Σ | 18 | 6 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 58 |
The numbers
Genius today takes 216 points of 309 available. The average answer runs 5.8 letters.
Word lengths, today vs. 20181 recorded answers
History
Today's letters, last seen
| Letter | Last in a puzzle | Last as center |
|---|---|---|
| b ● | Monday, September 14, 2026 | Sunday, September 6, 2026 |
| g | Tuesday, September 15, 2026 | Monday, September 14, 2026 |
| i | Friday, September 18, 2026 | Saturday, September 12, 2026 |
| l | Thursday, September 17, 2026 | Monday, August 31, 2026 |
| n | Friday, September 18, 2026 | Sunday, September 13, 2026 |
| o | Thursday, September 17, 2026 | Monday, August 17, 2026 |
| t | Friday, September 18, 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.
- bibb
- bibbing
- biggin
- bigging
- bilbo
- bilging
- billon
- binit
- bint
- biont
- bitt
- bitting
- bolling
- bonging
- boobing
- bott
- gibbing
- globin
- globing
- gobbing
- gobo
- nibbing
- nobbling
- nonbiting
- obol
- oboli
- titbit