Saturday, February 21, 2026
- Words
- 66
- Points
- 383
- Genius
- 268
- Pangrams
- 6
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ammo
noun — Ammunition.
verb — To load up on ammunition.
Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.
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amniotic
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anatomic
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atom
noun — The smallest possible amount of matter which still retains its identity as a chemical element, now known to consist of a nucleus surrounded by electrons.
noun — (history of science) A hypothetical particle posited by Greek philosophers as an ultimate and indivisible component of matter.
noun — The smallest, indivisible constituent part or unit of something.
noun — In logical atomism, a fundamental fact that cannot be further broken down.
noun — The smallest medieval unit of time, equal to fifteen ninety-fourths of a second.
noun — A mote of dust in a sunbeam.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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atomic
noun — An atomic operation.
adjective — Of or relating to atoms; composed of atoms; monatomic.
adjective — Employing or relating to nuclear energy or processes.
adjective — Infinitesimally small.
adjective — Unable to be split or made any smaller.
adjective — Of an operation: guaranteed to complete either fully or not at all while waiting in a pause, and running synchronously when called by multiple asynchronous threads.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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cami
noun — A camisole.
Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.
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camo
noun — A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.
verb — To camouflage.
noun — Clothes made from camouflage fabric, for concealment in combat or hunting.
verb — To put on camouflage clothing.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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coma
noun — A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.
noun — A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.
noun — A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that in an ideal image would appear as points.
noun — A tuft or bunch, such as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree, a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant, or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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comic
noun — A comedian.
adjective — Funny; amusing; comical.
noun — A story composed of cartoon images arranged in sequence, usually with textual captions; a graphic novel.
noun — A children's newspaper.
adjective — Relating to comedy.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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comma
noun — The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
verb — To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas.
noun — A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
noun — Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
noun — A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
noun — A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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commit
noun — The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository), making it a permanent change.
verb — To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
verb — To put in charge of a jailer; to imprison.
verb — To have (a person) enter an establishment, such as a hospital or asylum, as a patient.
verb — To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
verb — To join a contest; to match; followed by with.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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commotion
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contaminant
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contamination
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imam
noun — (usually capitalized) A Shi'ite Muslim leader.
noun — One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.
Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.
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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 20 recorded puzzles.
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mama
noun — (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.
Appeared in 25 recorded puzzles.
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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 25 recorded puzzles.
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manicotti
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mica
noun — Any of a group of hydrous aluminosilicate minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic.
Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.
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mimic
noun — A person who practices mimicry, or mime.
verb — To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.
adjective — Pertaining to mimicry; imitative.
noun — An imitation.
verb — To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage.
adjective — Mock, pretended.
Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.
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mini
adjective — Miniature, tiny, small.
noun — A miniskirt.
noun — A minicomputer.
Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.
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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 19 recorded puzzles.
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mint
adjective — (with condition) Like new.
noun — Any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems.
noun — A mint-flavored candy, often eaten to sweeten the smell of the breath.
noun — The flavouring of the plant, either a sweet, a jelly or sauce.
noun — A large amount of money. A vast sum or amount, etc.
noun — A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.
Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.
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mitt
noun — An oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt.
noun — A mitten
noun — (especially in plural) A hand.
Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.
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moat
noun — A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation.
verb — To surround with a moat.
noun — An aspect of a business which makes it more "defensible" from competitors, either because of the nature of its products, services, franchise or other reason.
noun — A circular lowland between a resurgent dome and the walls of the caldera surrounding it.
noun — A hill or mound.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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momma
noun — Mother
noun — A voluptuous woman.
noun — One's wife or girlfriend.
Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.
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monatomic
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moot
noun — A moot court.
adjective — Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
noun — A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.
verb — To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.
noun — Vagina.
noun — The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.
Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.
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motto
noun — A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement.
noun — A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim.
noun — A paper packet containing a sweetmeat, cracker, etc., together with a scrap of paper bearing a motto.
Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.
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omit
verb — To leave out or exclude.
verb — To fail to perform.
verb — To neglect or take no notice of.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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tatami
noun — Straw matting, in a standard size, used as a floor covering in Japanese houses
Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.
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tomato
noun — A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.
verb — To pelt with tomatoes
noun — The savory fruit of this plant, red when ripe, treated as a vegetable in horticulture and cooking.
noun — A shade of red, the colour of a ripe tomato.
noun — A desirable-looking woman.
noun — A stupid act or person.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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tomcat
noun — A tom, a male cat.
verb — To prowl for sexual gratification.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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tomtit
noun — Petroica macrocephala, the miromiro or New Zealand tit, a bird of the Petroicidae (Australasian robin) family.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
Hints, no spoilers
Words by first two letters
- am×5
- an×3
- at×2
- ca×4
- ci×1
- co×8
- im×2
- in×1
- ma×12
- mi×9
- mo×11
- no×2
- om×1
- ot×1
- ta×1
- to×3
Words by first letter and length
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 13 | Σ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | · | · | · | 10 |
| c | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | · | 1 | 1 | 13 |
| i | 1 | · | · | · | · | 1 | 1 | · | · | 3 |
| m | 12 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | · | · | 32 |
| n | · | · | 1 | · | · | · | 1 | · | · | 2 |
| o | 1 | · | · | 1 | · | · | · | · | · | 2 |
| t | · | · | 4 | · | · | · | · | · | · | 4 |
| Σ | 19 | 14 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 66 |
The numbers
Genius today takes 268 points of 383 available. The average answer runs 6.0 letters.
Word lengths, today vs. 17231 recorded answers
History
Today's letters, last seen
| Letter | Last in a puzzle | Last as center |
|---|---|---|
| a | Friday, February 20, 2026 | Monday, February 16, 2026 |
| c | Thursday, February 19, 2026 | Sunday, January 18, 2026 |
| i | Thursday, February 19, 2026 | Sunday, February 8, 2026 |
| m ● | Thursday, February 19, 2026 | Thursday, February 19, 2026 |
| n | Wednesday, February 18, 2026 | Wednesday, February 18, 2026 |
| o | Wednesday, February 18, 2026 | Thursday, February 5, 2026 |
| t | Thursday, February 19, 2026 | Monday, February 9, 2026 |
Most common answers, all recorded puzzles
- noon 41
- naan 30
- nana 30
- onion 28
- toot 28
- loll 27
- mama 25
- mamma 25
- cocoon 23
- nene 23
- acacia 22
- acai 22
- bill 22
- loon 22
- aria 21
- onto 21
- toon 21
- cancan 21
- canna 21
- neon 21
- none 21
- olio 21
- lilt 20
- till 20
- tilt 20
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.
- acmatic
- acmic
- amain
- amanita
- amanitin
- amia
- amici
- amin
- aminic
- amitotic
- ammino
- ammoniac
- ammoniation
- ammonic
- ammonitic
- ammono
- amnia
- amnic
- amnion
- amnionic
- amotion
- animato
- animi
- anomic
- antiatom
- antiman
- antimitotic
- antinomian
- antinomic
- ataman
- atma
- atman
- camion
- cinnamic
- cocomat
- comatic
- comitia
- commata
- commination
- concomitant
- imino
- intima
- macaco
- macon
- mammati
- mana
- manana
- manioc
- manioca
- manito
- mannan
- mannitic
- mano
- mantic
- matin
- matt
- mattin
- mina
- miotic
- mitotic
- momi
- monition
- monocot
- monotint
- monotonic
- motmot
- mott
- noma
- nomina
- nomoi
- nonanatomic
- nonatomic
- nonman
- oomiac
- tinman
- titman
- toman
- toom