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NYT Spelling Bee answers & analysis

ACDIMNO

Thursday, November 13, 2025

Words
58
Points
271
Genius
189
Pangram
1

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  • amino

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • ammo

    noun — Ammunition.

    verb — To load up on ammunition.

    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • ammonia

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • amnio

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • anaconda

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • anion

    noun — A negatively charged ion.

    Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.

  • anon

    noun — An anonymous person, especially an author.

    adverb — Straight away; at once.

    adverb — Soon; in a little while.

    adverb — At another time; then; again.

    adjective — Anonymous

    noun — A work with an unknown author.

    Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.

  • cacao

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    Appeared in 16 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.

  • cannon

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    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • canon

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    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • canonic

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • ciao

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • cinnamon

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • coca

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    Appeared in 16 recorded puzzles.

  • cocci

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    Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.

  • cocoa

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    Appeared in 16 recorded puzzles.

  • cocoon

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    Appeared in 23 recorded puzzles.

  • coda

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • codon

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • coin

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    Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.

  • 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.

  • comic

    noun — A comedian.

    adjective — Funny; amusing; comical.

    noun — A story composed of cartoon images arranged in sequence, usually with textual captions; a graphic novel.

    noun — A children's newspaper.

    adjective — Relating to comedy.

    Appeared in 6 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.

  • command

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  • commando

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  • common

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    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • condo

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • condom

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • conic

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    Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.

  • diamond

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • dino

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    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • dodo

    noun — A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius.

    noun — A person or organisation which is very old or has very old-fashioned views or is not willing to change and adapt.

    noun — Fried plantain.

    Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

  • domain

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • dominion

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • domino

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • doodad

    noun — A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall); especially an unspecified gadget, device, or part.

    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • doom

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • icon

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    Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.

  • iconic

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    Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.

  • idiom

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • ionic

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    Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.

  • mammon

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    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • minion

    noun — The lowest limit.

    noun — A loyal servant of another, usually a more powerful being.

    adjective — Favoured, beloved; "pet".

    noun — The smallest amount.

    noun — A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star).

    noun — A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.

    Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

  • moan

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    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • momma

    noun — Mother

    noun — A voluptuous woman.

    noun — One's wife or girlfriend.

    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • monad

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • mondo

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • mono

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    Appeared in 16 recorded puzzles.

  • monomania

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • monomaniac

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • mood

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • moon

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    Appeared in 16 recorded puzzles.

  • nomad

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • nomadic

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  • noncom

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    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • noon

    noun — The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.

    verb — To relax or sleep around midday

    noun — The letter ن in the Arabic script.

    noun — Time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.

    noun — The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.

    noun — The highest point; culmination.

    Appeared in 42 recorded puzzles.

  • onion

    noun — A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.

    noun — The bulb of such a plant.

    noun — The genus as a whole.

    noun — A ball.

    noun — A person from Bermuda or of Bermudian descent.

    Appeared in 30 recorded puzzles.

nomadic is a perfect pangram — all seven letters, each used exactly once.

Hints, no spoilers

Words by first two letters

  • am×4
  • an×3
  • ca×5
  • ci×2
  • co×16
  • di×2
  • do×6
  • ic×2
  • id×1
  • io×1
  • ma×1
  • mi×1
  • mo×9
  • no×4
  • on×1

Words by first letter and length

45678910Σ
a 23·11·· 7
c 69422·· 23
d 3·311·· 8
i 121···· 4
m 432··11 11
n 1111··· 4
o ·1····· 1
Σ 1719115411 58

The numbers

Genius today takes 189 points of 271 available. The average answer runs 5.4 letters.

Total points vs. all 386 recorded puzzles
77th percentile
Word count vs. all recorded puzzles
80th percentile

Word lengths, today vs. 17499 recorded answers

417 today34.6% all-time519 today22.8% all-time611 today19.9% all-time75 today12.1% all-time84 today6.3% all-time91 today2.6% all-time101 today1.2% all-time110.3% all-time120.1% all-time130.0% all-time

History

Today's letters, last seen

LetterLast in a puzzleLast as center
a Wednesday, November 12, 2025 Monday, November 10, 2025
c Sunday, November 9, 2025 Tuesday, September 16, 2025
d Tuesday, November 11, 2025 Monday, October 27, 2025
i Wednesday, November 12, 2025 Wednesday, November 12, 2025
m Friday, November 7, 2025 Sunday, October 26, 2025
n Wednesday, November 12, 2025 Sunday, November 9, 2025
o ● Monday, November 10, 2025 Saturday, November 8, 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.