Saturday, December 20, 2025
- Words
- 77
- Points
- 370
- Genius
- 259
- Pangram
- 1
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agleam
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alga
noun — Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, including the seaweeds, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose biochemistry and forms are very diverse, some being eukaryotic.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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algal
noun — An alga.
adjective — Pertaining to, or like, algae
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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alleged
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amalgam
noun — An alloy containing mercury.
verb — To amalgamate.
noun — A combination of different things.
noun — One of the ingredients in an alloy.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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angled
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damage
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damaged
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dangle
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dangled
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eagled
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edge
noun — The boundary line of a surface.
verb — To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
noun — A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
noun — An advantage.
noun — The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
noun — A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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edged
verb — To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
adjective — That has a sharp planar surface.
verb — To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
verb — (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
verb — To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
verb — To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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egged
verb — To throw eggs at.
verb — To encourage, incite.
verb — To dip in or coat with beaten egg.
verb — To distort a circular cross-section (as in a tube) to an elliptical or oval shape, either inadvertently or intentionally.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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endgame
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gaga
adjective — Mentally senile.
noun — A variant of dodgeball played inside a fenced area, usually a hexagon or octagon.
adjective — Crazy.
adjective — Infatuated.
Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.
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gala
noun — Pomp, show, or festivity.
adjective — Celebratory; festive.
noun — A member of an androgynous class of priests of the Sumerian goddess Inanna.
noun — A showy and festive party.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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gall
noun — Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.
verb — To bother or trouble.
noun — A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp Cynips quercusfolii.
verb — To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.
noun — The gall bladder.
noun — Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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galled
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gamed
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gamma
noun — The third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ), preceded by beta (Β, β) and followed by delta, (Δ, δ).
noun — A nonlinear operation used to encode and decode luminance or tristimulus values in video or still image systems.
noun — The Gamma function, symbolized by Γ.
noun — A constant approximately equal to 0.55721566, symbolized by γ (also known as the Euler–Mascheroni constant).
noun — A non-SI unit of measure of magnetic flux density, equal to 1 nT.
noun — (industries) slope of log-log plot of video input and luminance output.
Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.
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gene
noun — A theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms; a gene may take several values and in principle predetermines a precise trait of an organism's form (phenotype), such as hair color.
noun — A segment of DNA or RNA from a cell's or an organism's genome, that may take several forms and thus parameterizes a phenomenon, in general the structure of a protein; locus.
Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.
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gladden
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gladdened
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glade
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glam
noun — Glamour.
verb — To make glamorous or more glamorous.
adjective — Glamorous.
noun — A style of rock music, glam rock, associated with an androgynous yet masculine look and a driving, pounding bluesy form of psychedelic rock; the fashion and culture associated with this genre.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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gleam
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gleamed
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gleaned
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lagged
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magma
noun — The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.
noun — A basic algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with a single binary operation.
noun — Any soft doughy mass.
noun — The residuum after expressing the juice from fruits.
Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.
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managed
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manga
noun — A comic originating in Japan.
noun — A covering for a crucifix.
noun — An artistic style heavily used in, and associated with, Japanese comics, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of comics from other countries.
noun — A comic in manga style, regardless of the country of origin.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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mangle
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mangled
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megadeal
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melange
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mangled is a perfect pangram — all seven letters, each used exactly once.
Hints, no spoilers
Words by first two letters
- ad×1
- ag×3
- al×5
- am×1
- an×3
- da×5
- ea×2
- ed×2
- eg×2
- en×3
- ga×16
- ge×5
- gl×12
- la×1
- le×4
- ma×8
- me×3
- na×1
Words by first letter and length
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Σ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | · | · | 13 |
| d | 1 | · | 2 | 2 | · | · | 5 |
| e | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | · | · | 9 |
| g | 13 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 33 |
| l | · | 2 | 3 | · | · | · | 5 |
| m | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | · | 11 |
| n | · | · | 1 | · | · | · | 1 |
| Σ | 20 | 20 | 21 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 77 |
The numbers
Genius today takes 259 points of 370 available. The average answer runs 5.5 letters.
Word lengths, today vs. 18583 recorded answers
History
Today's letters, last seen
| Letter | Last in a puzzle | Last as center |
|---|---|---|
| a | Friday, December 19, 2025 | Friday, December 12, 2025 |
| d | Wednesday, December 17, 2025 | Thursday, December 4, 2025 |
| e | Friday, December 19, 2025 | Friday, December 5, 2025 |
| g ● | Monday, December 15, 2025 | Wednesday, December 10, 2025 |
| l | Friday, December 19, 2025 | Tuesday, December 9, 2025 |
| m | Thursday, December 11, 2025 | Tuesday, November 18, 2025 |
| n | Thursday, December 18, 2025 | Monday, November 17, 2025 |
Most common answers, all recorded puzzles
- noon 44
- naan 33
- nana 33
- onion 31
- toot 29
- loll 29
- mama 27
- mamma 27
- nene 25
- cocoon 24
- acacia 24
- acai 24
- loon 24
- olio 24
- imam 23
- maim 23
- cancan 23
- canna 23
- mini 23
- minim 23
- neon 23
- none 23
- aria 22
- mitt 22
- bill 22
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.
- agama
- agee
- agene
- aglee
- agma
- alang
- anga
- angeled
- anlage
- anlagen
- dagga
- daggle
- daggled
- danegeld
- danged
- degage
- degame
- egal
- endamage
- endamaged
- gaed
- gaen
- gaged
- gaggled
- gagman
- gagmen
- galea
- galeae
- galena
- gama
- gamelan
- gammed
- gane
- geed
- gelada
- gemma
- gemmae
- gemmed
- gladded
- gled
- glede
- gleed
- gleeman
- gleemen
- gleg
- lagan
- lagend
- lang
- legman
- legmen
- magdalen
- magdalene
- malanga
- manege
- mangel
- menage
- nagana