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NYT Spelling Bee answers & analysis

ABEGINM

Saturday, February 14, 2026

Words
64
Points
293
Genius
205
Pangram
1

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  • aiming

    verb — To point or direct a missile, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it

    noun — The act of one who aims.

    verb — To direct the intention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try to gain; to endeavor;—followed by at, or by an infinitive

    verb — To direct or point (e.g. a weapon), at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object

    verb — To direct (something verbal) towards a certain person, thing, or group

    verb — To guess or conjecture.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • ameba

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • amebae

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • amen

    noun — An instance of saying ‘amen’.

    verb — To say amen.

    adverb — At the end of religious prayers: so be it.

    interjection — An expression of strong agreement. Often, though dated, in the phrase "Amen to that".

    noun — A title of Christ; the Faithful One (especially with reference to Revelation 3:14)

    verb — To say amen to; to ratify solemnly.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • anemia

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • anima

    noun — The soul or animating principle of a living thing, especially as contrasted with the animus.

    noun — (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) of a person that is in touch with the unconscious as opposed to the persona.

    noun — (Jungian psychology) The unconscious feminine aspect of a person.

    Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

  • anime

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • bagman

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  • bagmen

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  • beam

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • beaming

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  • begem

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • begemming

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  • enema

    noun — An injection of fluid into the large intestine by way of the rectum, usually for medical purposes.

    noun — The fluid so injected.

    noun — A device for administering such an injection.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • enigma

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • game

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    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • gamin

    noun — A homeless boy; a male street urchin; also (more generally), a cheeky, street-smart boy.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • gamine

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • gaming

    verb — To gamble.

    noun — The playing of a game or games, including but not limited to video games and games of chance.

    verb — To play card games, board games, or video games.

    verb — To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.

    verb — (of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.

    noun — Careful, strategic use of rules to achieve one's purposes, as one would use the rules of a game.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • 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.

  • gimme

    noun — That which is easily obtained, or certain to occur.

    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • iamb

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  • iambi

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  • image

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • imagine

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • imaging

    verb — To represent by an image or symbol; to portray.

    noun — The technique or practice of creating images of otherwise invisible aspects of an object, especially of body parts.

    verb — To reflect, mirror.

    verb — To create an image of.

    verb — To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.

    noun — The use of mental images to alter a person's perceptions or behaviors.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • imagining

    verb — To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.

    noun — Something imagined; a figment of the imagination.

    verb — To believe in something created by one's own mind.

    verb — To assume

    verb — To conjecture or guess

    verb — To use one's imagination

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • imam

    noun — (usually capitalized) A Shi'ite Muslim leader.

    noun — One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.

    Appeared in 23 recorded puzzles.

  • imbibe

    verb — To drink (used frequently of alcoholic beverages).

    verb — To take in; absorb.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • imbibing

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • mage

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    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • magi

    noun — A magician, wizard or sorcerer.

    noun — (common usage) magician, and derogatorily sorcerer, trickster, conjurer, charlatan

    noun — (special usage) a Zoroastrian priest

    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

  • 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.

  • maim

    noun — A serious wound

    verb — To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.

    Appeared in 23 recorded puzzles.

  • maiming

    verb — To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.

    noun — The act by which somebody is maimed.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • main

    verb — Short for mainline.

    adjective — Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal.

    adverb — Exceedingly, extremely, greatly, mightily, very, very much.

    noun — That which is chief or principal; the chief or main portion; the bulk, the greater part, gross.

    noun — A hand or match in a game of dice.

    noun — A basket for gathering grapes.

    Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

  • mama

    noun — (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

    Appeared in 27 recorded puzzles.

  • mamba

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • mamma

    noun — The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. (plural: mammae)

    noun — (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

    noun — An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera

    Appeared in 27 recorded puzzles.

  • manage

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    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • managing

    verb — To direct or be in charge of.

    noun — Management

    verb — To handle or control (a situation, job).

    verb — To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).

    verb — To succeed at an attempt.

    verb — To achieve (something) without fuss, or without outside help.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • mane

    noun — Longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion

    noun — Long or thick hair of a person's head.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • 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.

  • mange

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    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • mania

    noun — Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.

    noun — Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.

    noun — The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.

    Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

  • manna

    noun — Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.

    noun — (by extension) Any boon which comes into one's hands by good luck.

    noun — The sugary sap of the manna gum tree which oozes out from holes drilled by insects and falls to the ground around the tree.http//www.museum.vic.gov.au/forest/plants/gum.html

    Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.

  • manning

    verb — To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex).

    verb — To take up position in order to operate (something).

    verb — (possibly obsolete) To brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way. (Compare man up.)

    verb — To wait on, attend to or escort.

    verb — To accustom (a raptor or other type of bird) to the presence of people.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • mean

    verb — To lament.

    verb — To intend.

    adjective — Common; general.

    noun — (now chiefly in the plural) A method or course of action used to achieve some result.

    adjective — Having the mean (see noun below) as its value.

    verb — To convey (a meaning).

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • meanie

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • meaning

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • mega

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    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • meme

    noun — Something, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, including quizzes, basic pictures, video templates etc.

    noun — A myth circulating as truth; something ineffective presented as effective, or similar.

    noun — Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.

    verb — To turn into a meme; to use a meme, especially to achieve something in real life.

    verb — To create and use humorous memes.

    verb — To joke around.

    Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.

  • meming

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • mien

    noun — Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.

    noun — A specific facial expression.

    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • mime

    noun — A form of acting without words; pantomime.

    noun — A pantomime actor.

    verb — To act without words.

    verb — To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use of sound.

    verb — To mimic.

    noun — A person who mimics others in a comical manner.

    Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

  • miming

    verb — To act without words.

    verb — To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use of sound.

    noun — A performance in mime.

    verb — To mimic.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • mine

    pronoun — My; belonging to me; that which belongs to me.

    noun — A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.

    noun — An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.

    noun — Any source of wealth or resources.

    verb — To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.

    noun — A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.

    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • mini

    adjective — Miniature, tiny, small.

    noun — A miniskirt.

    noun — A minicomputer.

    Appeared in 24 recorded puzzles.

  • minim

    noun — A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.

    noun — Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.

    noun — A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.

    noun — A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.

    noun — A little man or being; a dwarf.

    noun — A small fish; a minnow.

    Appeared in 24 recorded puzzles.

  • minima

    noun — The lowest limit.

    noun — The smallest amount.

    noun — A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star).

    noun — A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.

    noun — The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution.

    Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

  • mining

    noun — The activity of removing solid valuables from the earth.

    verb — To remove (ore) from the ground.

    verb — To dig into, for ore or metal.

    noun — Creation of new units of cryptocurrency by validating transactions and demonstrating proof-of-work

    noun — The activity of placing explosives underground, rigged to explode

    verb — To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • name

    noun — Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.

    verb — (ditransitive) To give a name to.

    noun — Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.

    noun — Reputation.

    noun — An abusive or insulting epithet.

    noun — A person (or legal person).

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • naming

    verb — (ditransitive) To give a name to.

    noun — The process of giving names to things.

    adjective — Giving a name to a person or thing.

    verb — To mention, specify.

    verb — To identify as relevant or important

    verb — To publicly implicate.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • nimbi

    noun — A circle of light; a halo.

    noun — A gray rain cloud.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

beaming is a perfect pangram — all seven letters, each used exactly once.

Hints, no spoilers

Words by first two letters

  • ai×1
  • am×3
  • an×3
  • ba×2
  • be×4
  • en×2
  • ga×5
  • gi×1
  • ia×2
  • im×7
  • ma×17
  • me×6
  • mi×8
  • na×2
  • ni×1

Words by first letter and length

456789Σ
a 133··· 7
b 1121·1 6
e ·11··· 2
g 132··· 6
i 221211 9
m 138631· 31
n 111··· 3
Σ 191916622 64

The numbers

Genius today takes 205 points of 293 available. The average answer runs 5.4 letters.

Total points vs. all 420 recorded puzzles
84th percentile
Word count vs. all recorded puzzles
90th percentile

Word lengths, today vs. 18971 recorded answers

419 today34.4% all-time519 today23.0% all-time616 today20.0% all-time76 today12.0% all-time82 today6.3% all-time92 today2.6% all-time101.3% all-time110.3% all-time120.1% all-time130.0% all-time

History

Today's letters, last seen

LetterLast in a puzzleLast as center
a Thursday, February 12, 2026 Tuesday, January 20, 2026
b Tuesday, February 10, 2026 Sunday, February 1, 2026
e Friday, February 13, 2026 Friday, February 6, 2026
g Friday, February 6, 2026 Thursday, January 22, 2026
i Wednesday, February 11, 2026 Sunday, February 8, 2026
m ● Thursday, February 12, 2026 Wednesday, February 11, 2026
n Friday, February 13, 2026 Thursday, February 12, 2026

Most common answers, all recorded puzzles

  1. noon 44
  2. naan 33
  3. nana 33
  4. onion 31
  5. toot 30
  6. loll 29
  7. mama 27
  8. mamma 27
  9. acacia 25
  10. acai 25
  11. nene 25
  12. cocoon 24
  13. mini 24
  14. minim 24
  15. loon 24
  16. olio 24
  17. aria 23
  18. imam 23
  19. maim 23
  20. mitt 23
  21. cancan 23
  22. canna 23
  23. neon 23
  24. none 23
  25. onto 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.