The Unofficial Hive

NYT Spelling Bee answers & analysis

ABCEHOM

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Words
39
Points
145
Genius
101
Pangram
1

Official answers

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  • acme

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    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • ahem

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • ameba

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • amebae

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • ammo

    noun — Ammunition.

    verb — To load up on ammunition.

    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • amoeba

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  • amoebae

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  • bamboo

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • beachcomb

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  • beam

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • became

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • become

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • bomb

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • bombe

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • boom

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • came

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    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • cameo

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • camo

    noun — A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.

    verb — To camouflage.

    noun — Clothes made from camouflage fabric, for concealment in combat or hunting.

    verb — To put on camouflage clothing.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • chemo

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  • coma

    noun — A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.

    noun — A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.

    noun — A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that in an ideal image would appear as points.

    noun — A tuft or bunch, such as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree, a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant, or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • comb

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • combo

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • come

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • comma

    noun — The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.

    verb — To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas.

    noun — A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.

    noun — Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.

    noun — A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.

    noun — A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • emcee

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    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • heme

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • home

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  • mace

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    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • macho

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  • mama

    noun — (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

    Appeared in 25 recorded puzzles.

  • mamba

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • mambo

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • mamma

    noun — The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. (plural: mammae)

    noun — (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

    noun — An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera

    Appeared in 25 recorded puzzles.

  • mecca

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    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • meme

    noun — Something, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, including quizzes, basic pictures, video templates etc.

    noun — A myth circulating as truth; something ineffective presented as effective, or similar.

    noun — Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.

    verb — To turn into a meme; to use a meme, especially to achieve something in real life.

    verb — To create and use humorous memes.

    verb — To joke around.

    Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

  • memo

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • mocha

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  • momma

    noun — Mother

    noun — A voluptuous woman.

    noun — One's wife or girlfriend.

    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • mooch

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

Hints, no spoilers

Words by first two letters

  • ac×1
  • ah×1
  • am×5
  • ba×1
  • be×4
  • bo×3
  • ca×3
  • ch×1
  • co×5
  • em×1
  • he×1
  • ho×1
  • ma×6
  • me×3
  • mo×3

Words by first letter and length

45679Σ
a 3121· 7
b 313·1 8
c 54··· 9
e ·1··· 1
h 2···· 2
m 48··· 12
Σ 1715511 39

The numbers

Genius today takes 101 points of 145 available. The average answer runs 4.8 letters.

Total points vs. all 380 recorded puzzles
21st percentile
Word count vs. all recorded puzzles
35th percentile

Word lengths, today vs. 17231 recorded answers

417 today34.6% all-time515 today22.8% all-time65 today19.9% all-time71 today12.1% all-time86.3% all-time91 today2.6% all-time101.2% all-time110.3% all-time120.1% all-time130.0% all-time

History

Today's letters, last seen

LetterLast in a puzzleLast as center
a Sunday, July 13, 2025 Sunday, July 13, 2025
b Monday, July 14, 2025 Tuesday, July 1, 2025
c Saturday, July 12, 2025 Saturday, July 12, 2025
e Friday, July 11, 2025 first recorded time
h Monday, July 14, 2025 first recorded time
m ● Thursday, July 10, 2025 first recorded time
o Monday, July 14, 2025 Friday, July 11, 2025

Most common answers, all recorded puzzles

  1. noon 41
  2. naan 30
  3. nana 30
  4. onion 28
  5. toot 28
  6. loll 27
  7. mama 25
  8. mamma 25
  9. cocoon 23
  10. nene 23
  11. acacia 22
  12. acai 22
  13. bill 22
  14. loon 22
  15. aria 21
  16. onto 21
  17. toon 21
  18. cancan 21
  19. canna 21
  20. neon 21
  21. none 21
  22. olio 21
  23. lilt 20
  24. till 20
  25. tilt 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.