Thursday, July 3, 2025
- Words
- 41
- Points
- 146
- Genius
- 102
- Pangram
- 1
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ileum
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lilt
noun — A cheerful or melodious accent when speaking.
noun — Animated, brisk motion; spirited rhythm; sprightliness.
noun — A lively song or dance; a cheerful tune.
verb — To do something rhythmically, with animation and quickness, usually of music.
verb — To utter with spirit, animation, or gaiety; to sing with spirit and liveliness.
verb — To sing cheerfully, especially in Gaelic.
Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.
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lime
noun — Any of several green citrus fruit, somewhat smaller and sharper-tasting than a lemon.
adjective — Lime-green.
adjective — Containing lime or lime juice.
adjective — Having the aroma or flavor of lime.
noun — A brilliant, sometimes yellowish, green colour associated with the fruits of a lime tree.
noun — Any of the trees that bear limes, especially Key lime, Citrus aurantiifolia.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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limit
noun — A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
verb — To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
noun — The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
noun — A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
noun — A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
noun — (as "the limit") A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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lull
noun — A period of rest or soothing.
verb — To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm
noun — A period of reduced activity; a respite
noun — A period without waves or wind.
noun — An extended pause between sets of waves.
verb — To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate.
Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.
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lulu
noun — A remarkable person, object or idea.
noun — A very attractive or alluring person.
noun — A very bad mistake or error.
noun — A fixed allowance paid to a legislator in lieu of reimbursement for actual expenses.
Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.
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lute
noun — A fretted stringed instrument of European origin, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
noun — Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.
verb — To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.
noun — A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
noun — (brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.
verb — To fix or fasten something with lute.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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melee
noun — A noisy, confused or tumultuous fight, argument or scrap.
noun — Any any confused, disorganised, disordered or chaotic situation.
noun — A battle fought at close range; hand-to-hand combat; brawling.
noun — Lively contention or debate, skirmish.
verb — To physically hit in close quarters, as opposed to shooting, blowing up, or other ranged means of damage. Often refers to the usage of a hand-to-hand weapon.
noun — A cavalry exercise in which two groups of riders try to cut paper plumes off the helmets of their opponents, the contest continuing until no member of one group retains his plume.
Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.
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melt
verb — To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
verb — To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
verb — To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.
verb — To be emotionally softened or touched.
noun — The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.
noun — Molten material, the product of melting.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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mettle
noun — A quality of endurance and courage.
noun — Good temperament and character.
noun — Metal; a metallic substance.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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mile
noun — The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards.
noun — One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.
noun — (travel) An airline mile in a frequent flier program.
noun — Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values.
noun — Any similarly large distance.
noun — A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters)
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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milieu
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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 14 recorded puzzles.
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millet
noun — Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.
noun — A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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mule
noun — The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
verb — To smuggle (illegal drugs).
noun — A shoe that has no fitting or strap around the heel, but which covers the foot.
noun — The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.
noun — A hybrid plant.
noun — A stubborn person.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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mull
noun — A thin, soft muslin.
verb — (usually with over) To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate.
noun — A promontory.
noun — Dirt; rubbish
noun — Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.
noun — A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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multilevel
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tell
verb — To convey by speech; to say.
verb — To narrate.
verb — To instruct or inform.
verb — To order; to direct, to say to someone.
verb — To reveal.
verb — To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.
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till
preposition — Until; to, up to; as late as (a given time).
conjunction — Until, until the time that.
noun — A cash register.
noun — A removable box within a cash register containing the money.
noun — The contents of a cash register, for example at the beginning or end of the day or of a cashier's shift.
verb — To work or cultivate or plough (soil); to prepare for growing vegetation and crops.
Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.
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tilt
verb — To slope or incline (something); to slant.
verb — To be at an angle.
noun — A slope or inclination.
noun — The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
verb — To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck or losses).
noun — The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.
Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.
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tulle
noun — A kind of silk lace or light netting, used for clothing, veils, etc.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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vellum
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velum
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Hints, no spoilers
Words by first two letters
- el×1
- ev×1
- il×2
- le×2
- li×7
- lu×3
- me×3
- mi×4
- mu×4
- te×1
- ti×5
- tu×2
- ut×1
- ve×4
- vi×1
Words by first letter and length
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 10 | Σ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| e | 1 | 1 | · | · | 2 |
| i | · | 2 | · | · | 2 |
| l | 8 | 3 | 1 | · | 12 |
| m | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 11 |
| t | 4 | 2 | 2 | · | 8 |
| u | · | 1 | · | · | 1 |
| v | 2 | 1 | 2 | · | 5 |
| Σ | 20 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 41 |
The numbers
Genius today takes 102 points of 146 available. The average answer runs 4.9 letters.
Word lengths, today vs. 17359 recorded answers
History
Today's letters, last seen
| Letter | Last in a puzzle | Last as center |
|---|---|---|
| e | Tuesday, July 1, 2025 | first recorded time |
| i | Wednesday, July 2, 2025 | first recorded time |
| l ● | Wednesday, July 2, 2025 | Monday, June 30, 2025 |
| m | Tuesday, July 1, 2025 | first recorded time |
| t | first recorded appearance | first recorded time |
| u | Wednesday, July 2, 2025 | first recorded time |
| v | Monday, June 30, 2025 | first recorded time |
Most common answers, all recorded puzzles
- noon 42
- naan 30
- nana 30
- onion 29
- toot 28
- loll 28
- mama 25
- mamma 25
- cocoon 23
- loon 23
- nene 23
- acacia 22
- acai 22
- bill 22
- neon 22
- none 22
- olio 22
- aria 21
- onto 21
- toon 21
- cancan 21
- canna 21
- lull 20
- lulu 20
- lilt 20
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.
- elemi
- elute
- eluvium
- illite
- illume
- illuvium
- leet
- lieve
- limuli
- litu
- lutetium
- luteum
- melilite
- mell
- milium
- mille
- millieme
- millime
- milt
- mullite
- mutuel
- mutule
- teel
- tele
- telium
- tillite
- tuille
- tule
- tumuli
- vill
- villi
- vittle