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NYT Spelling Bee answers & analysis

ADEGNVT

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Words
61
Points
337
Genius
235
Pangrams
2

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  • advantage

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  • advantaged

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  • advent

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  • agate

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • agent

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • andante

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  • ante

    noun — A price or cost, as in up the ante.

    verb — To pay the ante in poker. Often used as ante up.

    noun — In poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to the pot before dealing the cards.

    verb — To make an investment in money, effort, or time before knowing one's chances.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • anted

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  • antedate

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  • antedated

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  • antenna

    noun — A feeler organ on the head of an insect, crab, or other animal.

    noun — An apparatus to receive or transmit electromagnetic waves and convert respectively to or from an electrical signal.

    noun — The faculty of intuitive astuteness.

    noun — A fragment of an oligosaccharide

    noun — The spar to which a lateen sail is attached, which is then hoisted up the mast.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • antennae

    noun — A feeler organ on the head of an insect, crab, or other animal.

    noun — An apparatus to receive or transmit electromagnetic waves and convert respectively to or from an electrical signal.

    noun — The faculty of intuitive astuteness.

    noun — A fragment of an oligosaccharide

    noun — The spar to which a lateen sail is attached, which is then hoisted up the mast.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • attend

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  • attendant

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  • attended

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  • attendee

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  • data

    noun — (plural: data) A measurement of something on a scale understood by both the recorder (a person or device) and the reader (another person or device). The scale is arbitrarily defined, such as from 1 to 10 by ones, 1 to 100 by 0.1, or simply true or false, on or off, yes, no, or maybe, etc.

    noun — (plural: data) A fact known from direct observation.

    noun — (plural: data) A premise from which conclusions are drawn.

    noun — (plural: datums) A fixed reference point, or a coordinate system.

    Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

  • date

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • dated

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • dent

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • dented

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • detente

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • eaten

    verb — To ingest; to be ingested.

    adjective — (especially in combination) That has been consumed by eating

    verb — To use up.

    verb — To cause (someone) to worry.

    verb — To take the loss in a transaction.

    verb — To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • entente

    noun — An informal alliance or friendly understanding between two states.

    Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

  • event

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • gadget

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  • gannet

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • gate

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • gated

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  • gent

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    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

  • gnat

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    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • natant

    adjective — Floating or swimming (in water)

    adjective — In a horizontal position, as if swimming

    Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.

  • neat

    noun — An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy.

    adjective — Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.

    noun — A bull or cow.

    adjective — Free from contaminants; unadulterated, undiluted. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below.

    adjective — Conditions with a liquid reagent or gas performed with no standard solvent or cosolvent.

    adjective — With all deductions or allowances made; net.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • neaten

    verb — To make neat; arrange in an orderly, tidy way; to tidy.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • neatened

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  • negate

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • negated

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  • netted

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • tagged

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  • tang

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    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • tangent

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • tanned

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  • tatted

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • teat

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    Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

  • teed

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    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

  • teen

    noun — A teenager.

    adjective — Of or having to do with teenagers; teenage

    noun — Grief; sorrow; trouble.

    verb — To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.

    verb — (provincial) To hedge or fence in; to enclose.

    noun — Vexation; anger; hate.

    Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

  • teenage

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • teenaged

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  • tenant

    noun — One who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others.

    verb — To hold as, or be, a tenant.

    noun — One who has possession of any place.

    noun — One who holds a property by any kind of right, including ownership.

    noun — Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.

    verb — To inhabit.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • tend

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • tended

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • tenet

    noun — An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization.

    Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

  • tent

    noun — A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.

    verb — To go camping.

    noun — Attention; regard, care.

    verb — To attend to; to heed

    noun — A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.

    verb — (sometimes figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.

    Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

  • tented

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • vantage

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  • vegetate

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • vegetated

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  • vendetta

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  • vent

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • vented

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  • vetted

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Hints, no spoilers

Words by first two letters

  • ad×3
  • ag×2
  • an×7
  • at×4
  • da×3
  • de×3
  • ea×1
  • en×1
  • ev×1
  • ga×4
  • ge×1
  • gn×1
  • na×1
  • ne×6
  • ta×5
  • te×11
  • va×1
  • ve×6

Words by first letter and length

45678910Σ
a 1322431 16
d 3111··· 6
e ·2·1··· 3
g 312···· 6
n 1·411·· 7
t 61621·· 16
v 1·2121· 7
Σ 158178841 61

The numbers

Genius today takes 235 points of 337 available. The average answer runs 6.0 letters.

Total points vs. all 408 recorded puzzles
93rd percentile
Word count vs. all recorded puzzles
85th percentile

Word lengths, today vs. 18455 recorded answers

415 today34.5% all-time58 today22.9% all-time617 today19.9% all-time78 today12.0% all-time88 today6.3% all-time94 today2.6% all-time101 today1.3% all-time110.3% all-time120.1% all-time130.0% all-time

History

Today's letters, last seen

LetterLast in a puzzleLast as center
a Tuesday, July 8, 2025 first recorded time
d Tuesday, July 8, 2025 first recorded time
e Friday, July 4, 2025 first recorded time
g Saturday, July 5, 2025 first recorded time
n Tuesday, July 8, 2025 first recorded time
t ● Tuesday, July 8, 2025 Monday, July 7, 2025
v Thursday, July 3, 2025 first recorded time

Most common answers, all recorded puzzles

  1. noon 43
  2. naan 32
  3. nana 32
  4. onion 31
  5. toot 29
  6. loll 29
  7. mama 26
  8. mamma 26
  9. nene 25
  10. acacia 24
  11. acai 24
  12. olio 24
  13. cocoon 23
  14. loon 23
  15. neon 23
  16. none 23
  17. aria 22
  18. imam 22
  19. maim 22
  20. cancan 22
  21. canna 22
  22. bill 22
  23. mini 22
  24. minim 22
  25. lilt 21

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.