Thursday, August 14, 2025
- Words
- 28
- Points
- 124
- Genius
- 86
- Pangram
- 1
Official answers
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aria
noun — A musical piece written typically for a solo voice with orchestral accompaniment in an opera or cantata.
Appeared in 22 recorded puzzles.
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arid
adjective — Very dry.
adjective — Devoid of value.
adjective — Describing a very dry climate. Typically defined as less than 25 cm or 10 inches of rainfall annually.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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atria
noun — A central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings.
noun — A square hall lit by daylight from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.
noun — A cavity, entrance, or passage.
noun — Any enclosed sexine and nexine layers, widening toward the interior of the grain.
Appeared in 16 recorded puzzles.
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bait
noun — Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net.
noun — Anything which allures; something used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something
verb — To attract with bait; to entice.
verb — To intentionally annoy, torment, or threaten by constant rebukes or threats; to harass.
noun — Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests.
verb — To affix bait to a trap or a fishing hook or fishing line.
Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.
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bird
noun — A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, and laying eggs.
verb — To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment.
noun — A prison sentence.
verb — To bring into prison, to roof.
noun — The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended.
noun — A man, fellow.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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birdbath
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braid
noun — A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench.
verb — To make a sudden movement with, to jerk.
adjective — Deceitful.
noun — A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration.
noun — A stranded wire composed of a number of smaller wires twisted together
noun — A tubular sheath made of braided strands of metal placed around a central cable for shielding against electromagnetic interference.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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briar
noun — Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera.
noun — The white heath, Erica arborea, a thorny Mediterranean shrub.
noun — Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.
noun — A pipe for smoking, made from the roots of that shrub.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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dirt
noun — Soil or earth.
verb — To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty
noun — A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.
noun — Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person.
noun — Meanness; sordidness.
noun — In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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habit
noun — An action performed on a regular basis.
noun — An action performed repeatedly and automatically, usually without awareness.
noun — An addiction.
noun — A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns.
noun — A piece of clothing worn uniformly for a specific activity.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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habitat
noun — Conditions suitable for an organism or population of organisms to live.
noun — A place or type of site where an organism or population naturally occurs.
noun — A terrestrial or aquatic area distinguished by geographic, abiotic and biotic features, whether entirely natural or semi-natural.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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rabbi
noun — A Jewish scholar or teacher of halacha (Jewish law), capable of making halachic decisions.
noun — A Jew who is or is qualified to be the leader of a Jewish congregation.
noun — (police) A senior officer who acts as a mentor.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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rabbit
noun — A mammal of the family Leporidae, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail.
verb — To hunt rabbits.
verb — To talk incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble annoyingly.
verb — Confound; damn; drat.
noun — The meat from this animal.
noun — The fur of a rabbit typically used to imitate another animal's fur.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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rabid
noun — A human or animal infected with rabies.
adjective — Affected with rabies.
noun — Someone who is fanatical in opinion.
adjective — Of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia.
adjective — Furious; raging; extremely violent.
adjective — Very extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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radii
noun — A line segment between any point of a circle or sphere and its center.
noun — The long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb.
noun — The length of this line segment.
noun — Anything resembling a radius, such as the spoke of a wheel, the movable arm of a sextant, or one of the radiating lines of a spider's web.
noun — The lighter bone (or fused portion of bone) in the forelimb of an animal.
noun — One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the subcosta and the media; the vein running along the costal edge of the discal cell.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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raid
noun — An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering
noun — A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.
noun — A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.
noun — An activity initiated at or towards the end of a live broadcast by the broadcaster that sends its viewers to a different broadcast, primarily intended to boost the viewership of the receiving broadcaster. This is frequently accompanied by a message in the form of a hashtag that is posted in the broadcast's chat by the viewers.
verb — To lure from another; to entice away from.
verb — To indulge oneself by taking from.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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raita
noun — A condiment used as a dip or sauce in the cuisine of southern Asia, made from seasoned yogurt.
Appeared in 16 recorded puzzles.
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ribbit
noun — The vocal sound made by a frog or toad.
verb — To make the sound of a frog or toad.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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third
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tiara
noun — The papal crown.
noun — An ornamental coronet.
Appeared in 16 recorded puzzles.
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tibia
noun — The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee, the shinbone
noun — The second segment from the end of an insect's leg, between the femur and tarsus.
noun — The third segment from the end of an arachnid's leg, between the patella and metatarsus.
noun — A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.
Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.
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tidbit
noun — A tasty morsel (of food).
noun — A quarter of a byte (Half of a nybble; two bits).
noun — A short mention of news or gossip.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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trait
noun — An identifying characteristic, habit or trend.
noun — An uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface.
Appeared in 16 recorded puzzles.
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triad
noun — A grouping of three.
noun — A word of three syllables.
noun — A branch of a Chinese underground criminal society, mostly based in Hong Kong.
noun — On a CRT display, a group of three neighbouring phosphor dots, coloured green, red, and blue.
noun — A chord consisting of a root tone, the tone two degrees higher, and the tone four degrees higher in a given scale.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
Hints, no spoilers
Words by first two letters
- ar×2
- at×1
- ba×1
- bi×4
- br×2
- di×1
- dr×1
- ha×3
- ra×6
- ri×1
- th×1
- ti×3
- tr×2
Words by first letter and length
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Σ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 1 | · | · | · | 3 |
| b | 2 | 3 | 1 | · | 1 | 7 |
| d | 2 | · | · | · | · | 2 |
| h | 1 | 1 | · | 1 | · | 3 |
| r | 1 | 4 | 2 | · | · | 7 |
| t | · | 5 | 1 | · | · | 6 |
| Σ | 8 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 28 |
The numbers
Genius today takes 86 points of 124 available. The average answer runs 5.0 letters.
Word lengths, today vs. 18188 recorded answers
History
Today's letters, last seen
| Letter | Last in a puzzle | Last as center |
|---|---|---|
| a | Tuesday, August 12, 2025 | Saturday, July 19, 2025 |
| b | Saturday, August 9, 2025 | Thursday, July 31, 2025 |
| d | Wednesday, August 13, 2025 | Monday, August 11, 2025 |
| h | Tuesday, August 12, 2025 | Tuesday, July 22, 2025 |
| i ● | Monday, August 11, 2025 | Saturday, August 9, 2025 |
| r | Tuesday, August 12, 2025 | Monday, July 21, 2025 |
| t | Tuesday, August 12, 2025 | Friday, August 8, 2025 |
Most common answers, all recorded puzzles
- noon 43
- onion 31
- naan 31
- nana 31
- toot 29
- loll 29
- mama 26
- mamma 26
- acacia 24
- acai 24
- nene 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.
- abri
- adhibit
- adit
- airt
- airth
- babbitt
- baith
- bibb
- birr
- bitt
- briard
- brit
- britt
- dahabiah
- dita
- hadith
- irid
- raia
- riata
- ritard
- tabid
- thir
- titbit
- titi