Saturday, December 13, 2025
- Words
- 40
- Points
- 164
- Genius
- 114
- Pangram
- 1
Official answers
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dour
adjective — Stern, harsh and forbidding.
adjective — Unyielding and obstinate.
adjective — Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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drug
noun — A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
verb — To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.
verb — To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
noun — A drudge.
noun — A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.
noun — Anything, such as a substance, emotion or action, to which one is addicted.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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dugong
noun — A plant-eating aquatic marine mammal, of the genus Dugong, found in tropical regions.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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dugout
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dung
noun — Manure; animal excrement.
verb — To fertilize with dung.
verb — To hit or strike.
verb — To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.
noun — A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
verb — (calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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dunno
noun — An utterance of the word dunno.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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gourd
noun — Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae).
noun — A hard-shelled fruit from a plant in Lagenaria or Cucurbita.
noun — The dried and hardened shell of such fruit, made into a drinking vessel, bowl, spoon, or other objects designed for use or decoration.
noun — Any of the climbing or trailing plants from the family Cucurbitaceae, which includes watermelon, pumpkins, and cucumbers.
noun — Loaded dice.
noun — Head.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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gout
noun — An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints.
verb — To spurt.
noun — Taste; relish
noun — (usually followed by of) A spurt or splotch.
noun — A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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ground
noun — The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
verb — To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
verb — To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
adjective — Crushed, or reduced to small particles.
noun — Terrain.
noun — Soil, earth.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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groundout
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guru
noun — A Hindu or Sikh spiritual teacher.
noun — (sometimes humorous) An influential advisor or mentor.
Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.
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noun
noun — (grammar, narrow sense) A word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.
verb — To convert a word to a noun.
noun — (grammar, now rare, broad sense) Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun.
Appeared in 16 recorded puzzles.
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outgo
noun — The act or process of going out.
verb — To go out, to set forth.
noun — A quantity of a substance or thing that has flowed out; an outflow.
noun — An expenditure, cost or outlay.
verb — To go further; to exceed or surpass; go beyond.
verb — To overtake; to travel faster than.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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outgun
verb — To defeat in terms of firepower.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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round
adverb — So as to form a circle or trace a circular path, or approximation thereof.
preposition — Defining a circle or closed curve containing a thing.
noun — A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
verb — To shape something into a curve.
adjective — (physical) Shape.
verb — To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak secretly; take counsel.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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rung
noun — A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round.
verb — Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
adjective — Of a pig: having a ring through the nose.
noun — A crosspiece between legs of a chair.
noun — A position in a hierarchy.
noun — A floor timber in a ship.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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tour
noun — A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.
verb — To make a journey
noun — A tower.
verb — To toot a horn.
noun — A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place.
noun — A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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tout
noun — Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.
verb — To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote.
noun — In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.
noun — A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.
noun — A spy for a smuggler, thief, or similar.
noun — An informer in the Irish Republican Army.
Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.
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turn
verb — (heading) to make a non-linear physical movement.
noun — A change of direction or orientation.
verb — (heading) To change condition or attitude.
verb — To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
verb — (usually with over) To complete.
verb — To make (money); turn a profit.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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tutu
noun — A ballet skirt made of layered stiff but light netting.
noun — Any of the genus Coriaria of shrubs and trees found in New Zealand.
Appeared in 16 recorded puzzles.
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udon
noun — A Japanese wheat noodle
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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undo
noun — An operation that reverses a previous action.
verb — To reverse the effects of an action.
verb — To unfasten.
verb — To impoverish or ruin, as in reputation; to cause the downfall of.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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unground
verb — To remove a connection to ground potential.
adjective — Not having been ground; unpulverized.
verb — To free from the punishment of being grounded (restricted to home).
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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unto
preposition — Up to, indicating a motion towards a thing and then stopping at it.
conjunction — Up to the time or degree that; until.
preposition — To, indicating an indirect object.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
Hints, no spoilers
Words by first two letters
- do×2
- dr×1
- du×4
- go×2
- gr×4
- gu×1
- no×1
- or×1
- ou×6
- ro×4
- ru×3
- to×2
- tr×1
- tu×4
- ud×1
- un×3
Words by first letter and length
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Σ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| d | 3 | 2 | 2 | · | · | · | 7 |
| g | 2 | 3 | 1 | · | · | 1 | 7 |
| n | 1 | · | · | · | · | · | 1 |
| o | · | 3 | 2 | 2 | · | · | 7 |
| r | 3 | 1 | 3 | · | · | · | 7 |
| t | 4 | 2 | · | 1 | · | · | 7 |
| u | 3 | · | · | · | 1 | · | 4 |
| Σ | 16 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 40 |
The numbers
Genius today takes 114 points of 164 available. The average answer runs 5.1 letters.
Word lengths, today vs. 20643 recorded answers
History
Today's letters, last seen
| Letter | Last in a puzzle | Last as center |
|---|---|---|
| d | Thursday, December 4, 2025 | Thursday, December 4, 2025 |
| g | Friday, December 12, 2025 | Wednesday, December 10, 2025 |
| n | Friday, December 12, 2025 | Monday, November 17, 2025 |
| o | Friday, December 12, 2025 | Saturday, December 6, 2025 |
| r | Tuesday, December 9, 2025 | Sunday, November 16, 2025 |
| t | Wednesday, December 10, 2025 | Friday, November 7, 2025 |
| u ● | Saturday, December 6, 2025 | Tuesday, November 4, 2025 |
Most common answers, all recorded puzzles
- noon 47
- naan 38
- nana 38
- onion 33
- toot 33
- loll 30
- mama 29
- mamma 29
- acacia 28
- acai 28
- nene 28
- imam 26
- maim 26
- onto 26
- toon 26
- mini 26
- minim 26
- cancan 25
- canna 25
- cocoon 24
- lilt 24
- till 24
- tilt 24
- aria 24
- mitt 24
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.
- dunt
- durn
- duro
- durr
- groundnut
- grugru
- gundog
- nondrug
- notturno
- nurd
- odour
- outroot
- outrung
- outtrot
- outturn
- rudd
- runround
- trug
- tung
- turd
- turgor
- ungot
- unroot
- unround
- untorn
- untrod