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NYT Spelling Bee answers & analysis

BDELOWF

Thursday, November 6, 2025

Words
35
Points
140
Genius
98
Pangram
1

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  • bedfellow

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  • beef

    noun — The meat from a cow, bull or other bovine.

    adjective — Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.

    verb — To add weight or strength to; to beef up.

    noun — (plural: beefs) A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of faith or trust (in something or someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with)

    adjective — Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.

    verb — To complain.

    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • beefed

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • befell

    verb — To happen to.

    verb — To happen.

    verb — To fall upon; fall all over; overtake

    verb — To fall.

    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • boffo

    noun — (chiefly in the world of entertainment) A great success; a hit.

    adjective — Outstanding; very good or successful.

    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • doff

    verb — To remove or tip a hat, as in greeting, salutation or as a mark of respect.

    verb — (clothing) To remove or take off, especially of clothing.

    verb — To get rid of, to throw off.

    verb — To strip; to divest; to undress.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • doffed

    verb — To remove or tip a hat, as in greeting, salutation or as a mark of respect.

    verb — (clothing) To remove or take off, especially of clothing.

    verb — To get rid of, to throw off.

    verb — To strip; to divest; to undress.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • feeble

    adjective — Deficient in physical strength

    adjective — Lacking force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; faint.

    verb — To make feeble; to enfeeble.

    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • feed

    noun — Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.

    verb — (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.

    verb — To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.

    noun — Something supplied continuously.

    noun — The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.

    noun — The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.

    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • feel

    verb — (heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.

    verb — (heading) To use or experience the sense of touch.

    verb — To seem (through touch or otherwise).

    noun — A vague mental impression.

    noun — A quality of an object experienced by touch.

    verb — To be or become aware of.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • fell

    verb — To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.

    verb — To strike down, kill, destroy.

    adjective — Of a strong and cruel nature; eager and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.

    noun — (obsolete outside Britain) A rocky ridge or chain of mountains.

    noun — (obsolete outside Britain) A wild field or upland moor.

    noun — The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • felled

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • fellow

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • fled

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • flee

    verb — To run away; to escape.

    verb — To escape from.

    verb — To disappear quickly; to vanish.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • flew

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  • floe

    noun — A low, flat mass of floating ice.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • flood

    noun — A (usually disastrous) overflow of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.

    verb — To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.

    verb — To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.

    noun — A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.

    verb — To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.

    noun — A floodlight.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • flooded

    adjective — Filled with water from rain or rivers.

    adjective — (by extension) Overwhelmed with too much of something.

    verb — To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.

    adjective — Filled with too much fluid.

    verb — To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.

    verb — To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.

    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • flow

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • flowed

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  • fobbed

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • fold

    verb — To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.

    noun — A bend or crease.

    noun — An act of folding.

    verb — To become folded; to form folds.

    verb — To stir gently, with a folding action.

    verb — To give way on a point or in an argument.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • folded

    verb — To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.

    verb — To become folded; to form folds.

    verb — To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.

    verb — To stir gently, with a folding action.

    verb — To give way on a point or in an argument.

    verb — To fall over; to be crushed.

    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • follow

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • followed

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  • food

    noun — Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.

    noun — A foodstuff.

    noun — Anything that nourishes or sustains.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • fool

    noun — A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.

    verb — To trick; to deceive

    verb — To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly

    noun — A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).

    noun — A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.

    noun — Buddy, dude, man.

    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • fooled

    verb — To trick; to deceive

    verb — To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly

    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • fowl

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • offed

    verb — To kill.

    verb — To switch off.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • wolf

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • wolfed

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  • woof

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • woofed

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Hints, no spoilers

Words by first two letters

  • be×4
  • bo×1
  • do×2
  • fe×6
  • fl×8
  • fo×9
  • of×1
  • wo×4

Words by first letter and length

456789Σ
b 112··1 5
d 1·1··· 2
f 121811· 23
o ·1···· 1
w 2·2··· 4
Σ 16313111 35

The numbers

Genius today takes 98 points of 140 available. The average answer runs 5.2 letters.

Total points vs. all 389 recorded puzzles
20th percentile
Word count vs. all recorded puzzles
26th percentile

Word lengths, today vs. 17598 recorded answers

416 today34.6% all-time53 today22.8% all-time613 today19.9% all-time71 today12.1% all-time81 today6.3% all-time91 today2.6% all-time101.3% all-time110.3% all-time120.1% all-time130.0% all-time

History

Today's letters, last seen

LetterLast in a puzzleLast as center
b Tuesday, October 28, 2025 Sunday, October 12, 2025
d Monday, November 3, 2025 Monday, October 27, 2025
e Tuesday, November 4, 2025 Friday, September 19, 2025
f ● Tuesday, November 4, 2025 Saturday, October 25, 2025
l Tuesday, November 4, 2025 Saturday, November 1, 2025
o Wednesday, November 5, 2025 Wednesday, October 22, 2025
w Friday, October 31, 2025 Friday, October 31, 2025

Most common answers, all recorded puzzles

  1. noon 42
  2. onion 30
  3. naan 30
  4. nana 30
  5. toot 28
  6. loll 28
  7. mama 25
  8. mamma 25
  9. cocoon 23
  10. acacia 23
  11. acai 23
  12. loon 23
  13. nene 23
  14. olio 23
  15. bill 22
  16. neon 22
  17. none 22
  18. lilt 21
  19. till 21
  20. tilt 21
  21. aria 21
  22. onto 21
  23. toon 21
  24. cancan 21
  25. canna 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.