Wednesday, August 6, 2025
- Words
- 44
- Points
- 187
- Genius
- 130
- Pangram
- 1
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abate
verb — To moderate; to lessen in force, intensity, to subside.
verb — To decrease in intensity or force; to subside.
verb — To reduce in amount, size, or value.
verb — To decrease in size, value, or amount.
verb — To humble; to lower in status; to bring someone down physically or mentally.
verb — (obsolete outside law) To put an end to; to cause to cease.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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abet
verb — To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime.
verb — To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid (any good cause, opinion, or action); to maintain.
verb — To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable.
noun — An act of abetting; of helping; of giving aid.
verb — To back up one's forecast of a doubtful issue, by staking money, etc., to bet.
noun — Fraud or cunning.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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bate
verb — To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.
verb — To hit; strike
verb — To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
verb — To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
verb — To move with pulsation or throbbing.
verb — To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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beat
verb — To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.
verb — To hit; strike
verb — To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
noun — A pulsation or throb.
noun — A rhythm.
adjective — Exhausted
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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beet
noun — A beetroot, a swollen root of such a plant.
noun — Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.
verb — To improve; to mend.
verb — To kindle a fire.
verb — To rouse.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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beta
noun — The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ, γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound of v found in the English words have and vase.
noun — The phase of development after alpha testing and before launch, in which software, while not complete, has been released to potential users for testing.
noun — Software in such a phase; a preliminary version.
noun — Average sensitivity of a security's price to overall securities market prices.
noun — Used in marking scheme: α, β, γ or α+, α, α-, β etc.
adjective — Preliminary; prerelease. Refers to an incomplete version of a product released for initial testing.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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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.
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emanate
verb — To come from a source; issue from.
verb — To send or give out; manifest.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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enjambment
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entente
noun — An informal alliance or friendly understanding between two states.
Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.
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manatee
noun — Any of several plant-eating marine mammals, of family Trichechidae, found in tropical regions.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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manta
noun — A kind of fabric or blanket used in Latin America and southwestern United States.
noun — Any of several very large pelagic rays of the genus Manta, with winglike pectoral fins, a long tail, and two fins resembling horns that project from the head.
Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.
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meant
verb — To intend.
verb — To convey (a meaning).
verb — To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
verb — To cause or produce (a given result); to bring about (a given result).
verb — (usually with to) To be of some level of importance.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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meet
verb — To make contact (with) while in proximity.
verb — To make physical or perceptual contact.
verb — To satisfy; to comply with.
noun — A meeting.
noun — A sports competition, especially for track and field (a track meet) or swimming (a swim meet).
verb — (Of groups) To come together.
Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.
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mentee
noun — A person who is being mentored
Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.
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mete
verb — (usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.).
verb — To measure.
adjective — Suitable; right; proper.
noun — A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere.
Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.
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natant
adjective — Floating or swimming (in water)
adjective — In a horizontal position, as if swimming
Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.
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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.
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neaten
verb — To make neat; arrange in an orderly, tidy way; to tidy.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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teem
verb — To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.
verb — To be stocked to overflowing.
verb — To pour (especially with rain)
Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.
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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.
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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.
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tenement
noun — A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.
noun — Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned.
noun — Dwelling; abode; habitation.
Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.
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tenet
noun — An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization.
Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.
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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.
Hints, no spoilers
Words by first two letters
- ab×4
- an×3
- ba×4
- be×5
- ea×1
- em×1
- en×2
- je×1
- ma×4
- me×6
- na×1
- ne×2
- ta×1
- te×9
Words by first letter and length
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Σ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 1 | · | 1 | 2 | 1 | · | 7 |
| b | 5 | · | 3 | · | · | 1 | · | 9 |
| e | · | 1 | · | 2 | · | · | 1 | 4 |
| j | 1 | · | · | · | · | · | · | 1 |
| m | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | · | · | · | 10 |
| n | 1 | · | 2 | · | · | · | · | 3 |
| t | 6 | 1 | 1 | · | 2 | · | · | 10 |
| Σ | 20 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 44 |
The numbers
Genius today takes 130 points of 187 available. The average answer runs 5.5 letters.
Word lengths, today vs. 18455 recorded answers
History
Today's letters, last seen
| Letter | Last in a puzzle | Last as center |
|---|---|---|
| a | Sunday, August 3, 2025 | Saturday, July 19, 2025 |
| b | Tuesday, August 5, 2025 | Thursday, July 31, 2025 |
| e | Monday, August 4, 2025 | Sunday, August 3, 2025 |
| j | first recorded appearance | first recorded time |
| m | Tuesday, August 5, 2025 | Friday, July 25, 2025 |
| n | Tuesday, August 5, 2025 | Tuesday, August 5, 2025 |
| t ● | Monday, August 4, 2025 | Thursday, July 17, 2025 |
Most common answers, all recorded puzzles
- noon 43
- naan 32
- nana 32
- onion 31
- toot 29
- loll 29
- mama 26
- mamma 26
- nene 25
- acacia 24
- acai 24
- olio 24
- cocoon 23
- loon 23
- neon 23
- none 23
- aria 22
- imam 22
- maim 22
- cancan 22
- canna 22
- bill 22
- mini 22
- minim 22
- 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.
- ament
- anent
- anta
- antae
- ataman
- atma
- atman
- attent
- bannet
- batman
- batmen
- batt
- bemata
- bennet
- betta
- ebbet
- emmet
- enate
- enemata
- enjambement
- entameba
- entamebae
- etna
- jennet
- mammate
- mammet
- matt
- meatman
- meatmen
- menta
- metate
- nett
- tannate
- tate