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NYT Spelling Bee answers & analysis

BINORTH

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Words
26
Points
126
Genius
88
Pangram
1

Official answers

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  • birth

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • boho

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • boohoo

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • booth

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • both

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • broth

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • hint

    noun — A clue.

    verb — To suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue.

    noun — A tacit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.

    noun — A small, barely detectable amount of.

    noun — Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering. Also known as hinting.

    noun — An opportunity; occasion; fit time.

    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • hobbit

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • hobnob

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • hobo

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • honor

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  • hoot

    noun — A derisive cry or shout.

    verb — To cry out or shout in contempt.

    noun — The cry of an owl.

    noun — A fun event or person. (See hootenanny)

    noun — A small particle.

    verb — To make the cry of an owl, a hoo.

    Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.

  • horn

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  • horror

    noun — An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.

    noun — Something horrible; that which excites horror.

    noun — Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.

    noun — A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.

    noun — An individual work in this genre.

    noun — A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.

    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • inhibit

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • inhibition

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • inhibitor

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  • ninth

    noun — The person or thing in the ninth position.

    verb — To lose a ninth

    adjective — The ordinal form of the number nine.

    noun — One of nine equal parts of a whole.

    noun — The compound interval between any tone and the tone represented on the ninth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and two of the octave above; the octave of the second, consisting of 13 or 14 semitones (called minor and major ninth).

    verb — To divide by nine

    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • north

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • rhino

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  • thin

    noun — A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.

    verb — To make thin or thinner.

    adjective — Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.

    adverb — Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.

    noun — Any food produced or served in thin slices.

    verb — To become thin or thinner.

    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • thorn

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • throb

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • tinhorn

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  • tooth

    noun — A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for eating.

    verb — To provide or furnish with teeth.

    noun — A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.

    noun — A projection on the edge of a gear that meshes with similar projections on adjacent gears, or on the circumference of a cog that engages with a chain.

    noun — A projection or point in other parts of the body resembling the tooth of a vertebrate animal.

    noun — A pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.

    Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.

  • troth

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

Hints, no spoilers

Words by first two letters

  • bi×1
  • bo×4
  • br×1
  • hi×1
  • ho×7
  • in×3
  • ni×1
  • no×1
  • rh×1
  • th×3
  • ti×1
  • to×1
  • tr×1

Words by first letter and length

4567910Σ
b 231··· 6
h 413··· 8
i ···111 3
n ·2···· 2
r ·1···· 1
t 14·1·· 6
Σ 7114211 26

The numbers

Genius today takes 88 points of 126 available. The average answer runs 5.4 letters.

Total points vs. all 412 recorded puzzles
14th percentile
Word count vs. all recorded puzzles
7th percentile

Word lengths, today vs. 18634 recorded answers

47 today34.5% all-time511 today23.0% all-time64 today20.0% all-time72 today12.0% all-time86.2% all-time91 today2.6% all-time101 today1.3% all-time110.3% all-time120.1% all-time130.0% all-time

History

Today's letters, last seen

LetterLast in a puzzleLast as center
b Sunday, February 8, 2026 Sunday, February 1, 2026
h ● Thursday, February 5, 2026 Friday, January 9, 2026
i Monday, February 9, 2026 Sunday, February 8, 2026
n Sunday, February 8, 2026 Friday, January 2, 2026
o Monday, February 9, 2026 Thursday, February 5, 2026
r Saturday, February 7, 2026 Tuesday, February 3, 2026
t Monday, February 9, 2026 Monday, February 9, 2026

Most common answers, all recorded puzzles

  1. noon 44
  2. naan 33
  3. nana 33
  4. onion 31
  5. toot 29
  6. loll 29
  7. mama 27
  8. mamma 27
  9. nene 25
  10. cocoon 24
  11. acacia 24
  12. acai 24
  13. loon 24
  14. olio 24
  15. imam 23
  16. maim 23
  17. cancan 23
  18. canna 23
  19. mini 23
  20. minim 23
  21. neon 23
  22. none 23
  23. aria 22
  24. mitt 22
  25. 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.