Sunday, January 25, 2026
- Words
- 69
- Points
- 345
- Genius
- 241
- Pangrams
- 3
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airport
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apricot
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capacitor
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capri
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captor
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carp
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carpaccio
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carpi
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carport
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corpora
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crap
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octopi
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optic
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pact
noun — An agreement; a compact; a covenant.
verb — To form a pact; to agree formally.
noun — An agreement between two or more nations
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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pair
noun — Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
verb — To group into one or more sets of two.
verb — To impair, to make worse.
noun — Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.
noun — Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts)
noun — A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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paratroop
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parrot
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patio
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patriot
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patriotic
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pica
noun — A disorder characterized by craving and appetite for non-edible substances, such as ice, clay, chalk, dirt, or sand.
noun — A size of type between small pica and English, standardized as 12-point.
noun — Any of several small, furry mammals, similar to guinea pigs, but related to rabbits, of the family Ochotonidae, from the mountains of North America and Asia.
noun — A magpie.
noun — (usually with qualifier) A font of this size.
noun — A unit of length equivalent to 12 points, officially 35/83 cm (0.166 in) after 1886 but now 1/6 in.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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picot
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pipit
noun — Any of various small passerine birds, mainly from the genus Anthus, that are often drab, ground feeding insectivores of open country.
Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.
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piratic
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pita
noun — A flat bread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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pitapat
noun — A series of quick tapping sounds
verb — To make a series of quick tapping sounds; to palpitate
adverb — With a quick tapping sound
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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poop
noun — Fecal matter, feces.
verb — To make a short blast on a horn
noun — A set of data or general information, written or spoken, usually concerning machinery or a process.
verb — To tire, exhaust. Often used with out.
noun — The stern of a ship.
verb — To break seawater with the poop of a vessel, especially the poop deck.
Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.
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poor
noun — (with "the") Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.
adjective — With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
adjective — Of low quality.
adjective — Used to express pity.
adjective — Deficient in a specified way.
adjective — Inadequate, insufficient.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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port
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portico
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portrait
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priapic
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prior
noun — A high-ranking member of a monastery, usually lower in rank than an abbot.
adjective — Advance; previous; coming before.
adverb — Previously.
noun — A chief magistrate in Italy.
noun — (law enforcement) A previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone's record.
noun — In Bayesian inference, a prior probability distribution, one based on information or belief before additional data is collected.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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proctor
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prop
noun — An object placed against or under another, to support it; anything that supports.
verb — (sometimes figurative) To support or shore up something.
noun — An item placed on a stage or set to create a scene or scenario in which actors perform.
noun — The propeller of an aircraft.
verb — To manually start the engine of a propeller-driven aircraft with no electric starter by pulling vigorously on one of the propeller blades using the hands, so that the propeller can catch ignition.
noun — A proposition, especially on an election-day ballot.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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protract
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protractor
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rapport
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raptor
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tapa
noun — Any appetizer or snack served in the evening as part of tapas.
noun — Seasoned slices of dried or cured meat in Filipino cuisine.
noun — A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry.
Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.
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tapioca
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taproot
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tipi
noun — Alternative form of teepee
Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.
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topic
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torpor
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trip
noun — A journey; an excursion or jaunt
verb — To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot
adjective — Of or relating to trips
noun — A herd or flock of sheep, goats, etc.
noun — A stumble or misstep
noun — An error; a failure; a mistake
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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troop
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tropic
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apricot is a perfect pangram — all seven letters, each used exactly once.
Hints, no spoilers
Words by first two letters
- ai×1
- ap×3
- at×1
- ca×8
- co×3
- cr×2
- oc×1
- op×1
- pa×10
- pi×7
- po×7
- pr×7
- ra×4
- ta×5
- ti×2
- to×3
- tr×4
Words by first letter and length
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Σ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 1 | · | 3 | · | · | · | 5 |
| c | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | · | 2 | · | 13 |
| o | · | 1 | 1 | · | · | · | · | 2 |
| p | 11 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 31 |
| r | 1 | · | 1 | 2 | · | · | · | 4 |
| t | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | · | · | · | 14 |
| Σ | 23 | 13 | 8 | 18 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 69 |
The numbers
Genius today takes 241 points of 345 available. The average answer runs 5.7 letters.
Word lengths, today vs. 19911 recorded answers
History
Today's letters, last seen
| Letter | Last in a puzzle | Last as center |
|---|---|---|
| a | Thursday, January 22, 2026 | Tuesday, January 20, 2026 |
| c | Saturday, January 24, 2026 | Sunday, January 18, 2026 |
| i | Saturday, January 24, 2026 | Thursday, January 15, 2026 |
| o | Friday, January 23, 2026 | Wednesday, January 21, 2026 |
| p ● | Saturday, January 17, 2026 | Sunday, January 11, 2026 |
| r | Monday, January 19, 2026 | Saturday, January 10, 2026 |
| t | Saturday, January 24, 2026 | Tuesday, January 6, 2026 |
Most common answers, all recorded puzzles
- noon 45
- naan 35
- nana 35
- toot 32
- onion 31
- loll 30
- mama 28
- mamma 28
- acacia 26
- acai 26
- nene 26
- imam 25
- maim 25
- mini 25
- minim 25
- cocoon 24
- lilt 24
- till 24
- tilt 24
- aria 24
- mitt 24
- onto 24
- toon 24
- loon 24
- olio 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.
- apocarp
- apocopic
- aport
- apotropaic
- apparitor
- appropriator
- apractic
- aprotic
- atap
- atopic
- atrip
- capita
- capric
- capricci
- capriccio
- carrottop
- cartop
- catoptric
- coapt
- coppra
- copra
- corporator
- occipita
- paca
- pappi
- paprica
- para
- paratactic
- parotic
- parr
- participator
- pataca
- picara
- picaro
- picric
- picritic
- poco
- poori
- potto
- practic
- prao
- priapi
- proa
- procarp
- propitiator
- protatic
- ptotic
- riprap
- tipcart
- tipcat
- topi
- topoi
- trapt
- tripart
- trop