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NYT Spelling Bee answers & analysis

GIMNOUR

Saturday, January 10, 2026

Words
57
Points
320
Genius
224
Pangrams
3

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  • gorging

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • gorgon

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • goring

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • grim

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • grin

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    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • grinning

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    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • grog

    noun — (original meaning) An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.

    noun — (by extension) Any alcoholic beverage.

    noun — A glass or serving of an alcoholic beverage.

    noun — An alcoholic beverage made with hot water or tea, sugar and rum, sometimes also with lemon or lime juice and spices, particularly cinnamon.

    noun — A type of pre-fired clay that has been ground and screened to a specific particle size.

    Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

  • groin

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • groom

    noun — A man who is about to marry.

    noun — A person who cares for horses.

    verb — To attend to one's appearance and clothing.

    noun — One of several officers of the English royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain's department.

    noun — A brushing or cleaning, as of a dog or horse.

    verb — To care for (horses or other animals) by brushing and cleaning them.

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • grooming

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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.

  • ignoring

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • inuring

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • inurn

    verb — To place (the remains of a person who has died) in an urn or other container.

    verb — To hold or contain (the remains of a person who has died).

    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

  • inurning

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • iron

    noun — A common, inexpensive metal, silvery grey when untarnished, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel.

    verb — To pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove creases.

    adjective — Made of the metal iron.

    noun — A metallic chemical element having atomic number 26 and symbol Fe.

    noun — Any material, not a steel, predominantly made of elemental iron.

    noun — A tool or appliance made of metal, which is heated and then used to transfer heat to something else; most often a thick piece of metal fitted with a handle and having a flat, roughly triangular bottom, which is heated and used to press wrinkles from clothing, and now usually containing an electrical heating apparatus.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • ironing

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • minor

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • minoring

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  • mirin

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • miring

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • mirror

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • mirroring

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  • moor

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • mooring

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  • morn

    noun — Morning.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • morning

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  • moron

    noun — A stupid person; an idiot; a fool.

    noun — A person of mild mental subnormality in the former classification of mental retardation, having an intelligence quotient of 50–70.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • mourn

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  • mourning

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  • murmur

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • murmuring

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  • nigiri

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    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • noir

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    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • nori

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    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • norm

    noun — That which is normal or typical.

    verb — To endow (a vector space, etc) with a norm.

    noun — A rule that is enforced by members of a community.

    noun — A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission or prohibition.

    noun — A function, generally denoted v\mapsto\left|v\right| or v\mapsto\left\|v\right\|, that maps vectors to non-negative scalars and has the following properties:

    noun — A high level of performance in a chess tournament, several of which are required for a player to receive a title.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • origin

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • rigging

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    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • rigor

    noun — Short for rigor mortis.

    noun — Severity or strictness.

    noun — Harshness, as of climate.

    noun — A trembling or shivering response.

    noun — Character of being unyielding or inflexible.

    noun — Shrewd questioning.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • rimming

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • ring

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    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • ringing

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    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • room

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • rooming

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  • rouging

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • ruin

    noun — (sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.

    verb — To cause the fiscal ruin of.

    noun — The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.

    noun — Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.

    noun — A fall or tumble.

    noun — A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.

    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

  • ruing

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • ruining

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • rumor

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • rumoring

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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.

  • running

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • unmoor

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  • unmooring

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  • unrig

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • unrigging

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • urging

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

Hints, no spoilers

Words by first two letters

  • go×3
  • gr×7
  • gu×1
  • ig×1
  • in×3
  • ir×2
  • mi×6
  • mo×7
  • mu×2
  • ni×1
  • no×3
  • or×1
  • ri×5
  • ro×3
  • ru×7
  • un×4
  • ur×1

Words by first letter and length

456789Σ
g 42212· 11
i 11·22· 6
m 243222 15
n 3·1··· 4
o ··1··· 1
r 43·71· 15
u ·12··2 5
Σ 141191274 57

The numbers

Genius today takes 224 points of 320 available. The average answer runs 6.0 letters.

Total points vs. all 437 recorded puzzles
90th percentile
Word count vs. all recorded puzzles
77th percentile

Word lengths, today vs. 19762 recorded answers

414 today34.4% all-time511 today22.9% all-time69 today20.1% all-time712 today12.0% all-time87 today6.2% all-time94 today2.6% all-time101.2% all-time110.3% all-time120.1% all-time130.0% all-time

History

Today's letters, last seen

LetterLast in a puzzleLast as center
g Monday, January 5, 2026 Saturday, December 20, 2025
i Friday, January 9, 2026 Tuesday, December 30, 2025
m Thursday, January 8, 2026 Tuesday, November 18, 2025
n Wednesday, January 7, 2026 Friday, January 2, 2026
o Tuesday, January 6, 2026 Saturday, December 6, 2025
r ● Tuesday, January 6, 2026 Sunday, November 16, 2025
u Wednesday, January 7, 2026 Saturday, December 27, 2025

Most common answers, all recorded puzzles

  1. noon 45
  2. naan 35
  3. nana 35
  4. toot 32
  5. onion 31
  6. loll 30
  7. mama 28
  8. mamma 28
  9. acacia 26
  10. acai 26
  11. nene 26
  12. mini 25
  13. minim 25
  14. cocoon 24
  15. imam 24
  16. maim 24
  17. onto 24
  18. toon 24
  19. loon 24
  20. olio 24
  21. lilt 23
  22. till 23
  23. tilt 23
  24. aria 23
  25. mitt 23

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.