Tuesday, March 17, 2026
- Words
- 50
- Points
- 215
- Genius
- 150
- Pangram
- 1
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beef
noun — The meat from a cow, bull or other bovine.
adjective — Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.
verb — To add weight or strength to; to beef up.
noun — (plural: beefs) A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of faith or trust (in something or someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with)
adjective — Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
verb — To complain.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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befell
verb — To happen to.
verb — To happen.
verb — To fall upon; fall all over; overtake
verb — To fall.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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befoul
verb — To make foul; to soil; to contaminate, pollute.
verb — To stain or mar (for example with infamy or disgrace).
verb — (specifically) To defecate on, to soil with excrement.
verb — To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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befouled
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befuddle
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befuddled
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bluff
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bluffed
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boffo
noun — (chiefly in the world of entertainment) A great success; a hit.
adjective — Outstanding; very good or successful.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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buff
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buffed
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doff
verb — To remove or tip a hat, as in greeting, salutation or as a mark of respect.
verb — (clothing) To remove or take off, especially of clothing.
verb — To get rid of, to throw off.
verb — To strip; to divest; to undress.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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doffed
verb — To remove or tip a hat, as in greeting, salutation or as a mark of respect.
verb — (clothing) To remove or take off, especially of clothing.
verb — To get rid of, to throw off.
verb — To strip; to divest; to undress.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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doleful
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duff
noun — Dough.
noun — Decaying vegetable matter on the forest floor.
adjective — Worthless; not working properly, defective.
noun — The buttocks.
verb — To disguise something to make it look new.
noun — A large frame drum, resembling a tambourine, used to accompany popular and classical music in the Middle East.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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feeble
adjective — Deficient in physical strength
adjective — Lacking force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; faint.
verb — To make feeble; to enfeeble.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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feed
noun — Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
verb — (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
verb — To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.
noun — Something supplied continuously.
noun — The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
noun — The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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feel
verb — (heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
verb — (heading) To use or experience the sense of touch.
verb — To seem (through touch or otherwise).
noun — A vague mental impression.
noun — A quality of an object experienced by touch.
verb — To be or become aware of.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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fell
verb — To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
verb — To strike down, kill, destroy.
adjective — Of a strong and cruel nature; eager and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.
noun — (obsolete outside Britain) A rocky ridge or chain of mountains.
noun — (obsolete outside Britain) A wild field or upland moor.
noun — The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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feud
noun — A state of long-standing mutual hostility.
verb — To carry on a feud.
noun — An estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord in exchange for service.
noun — A staged rivalry between wrestlers.
noun — A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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feuded
verb — To carry on a feud.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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flee
verb — To run away; to escape.
verb — To escape from.
verb — To disappear quickly; to vanish.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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floe
noun — A low, flat mass of floating ice.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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flood
noun — A (usually disastrous) overflow of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
verb — To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
verb — To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
noun — A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
verb — To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
noun — A floodlight.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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flooded
adjective — Filled with water from rain or rivers.
adjective — (by extension) Overwhelmed with too much of something.
verb — To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
adjective — Filled with too much fluid.
verb — To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
verb — To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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flub
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flubbed
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flue
noun — A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace).
noun — An enclosed passageway in which to direct air or other gaseous current along.
noun — In an organ flue pipe, the opening between the lower lip and the languet.
noun — A woolly or downy substance; down, nap; a piece of this.
adjective — Shallow; flat
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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fold
verb — To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
noun — A bend or crease.
noun — An act of folding.
verb — To become folded; to form folds.
verb — To stir gently, with a folding action.
verb — To give way on a point or in an argument.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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folded
verb — To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
verb — To become folded; to form folds.
verb — To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
verb — To stir gently, with a folding action.
verb — To give way on a point or in an argument.
verb — To fall over; to be crushed.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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food
noun — Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
noun — A foodstuff.
noun — Anything that nourishes or sustains.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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fool
noun — A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
verb — To trick; to deceive
verb — To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly
noun — A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
noun — A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
noun — Buddy, dude, man.
Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.
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fooled
verb — To trick; to deceive
verb — To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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fouled
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fuel
noun — Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
verb — To provide with fuel.
noun — Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action.
verb — To exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater.
noun — Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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offed
verb — To kill.
verb — To switch off.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
Hints, no spoilers
Words by first two letters
- be×7
- bl×2
- bo×1
- bu×2
- do×3
- du×3
- fe×7
- fl×10
- fo×8
- fu×5
- lu×1
- of×1
Words by first letter and length
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Σ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| b | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
| d | 2 | · | 3 | 1 | · | · | 6 |
| f | 15 | 2 | 9 | 4 | · | · | 30 |
| l | 1 | · | · | · | · | · | 1 |
| o | · | 1 | · | · | · | · | 1 |
| Σ | 20 | 5 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 50 |
The numbers
Genius today takes 150 points of 215 available. The average answer runs 5.4 letters.
Word lengths, today vs. 17598 recorded answers
History
Today's letters, last seen
| Letter | Last in a puzzle | Last as center |
|---|---|---|
| b | Saturday, March 14, 2026 | Monday, March 9, 2026 |
| d | Sunday, March 15, 2026 | Monday, January 26, 2026 |
| e | Monday, March 16, 2026 | Friday, February 6, 2026 |
| f ● | Saturday, March 14, 2026 | Sunday, January 4, 2026 |
| l | Monday, March 16, 2026 | Sunday, March 15, 2026 |
| o | Saturday, March 14, 2026 | Thursday, March 5, 2026 |
| u | Saturday, March 14, 2026 | Friday, March 6, 2026 |
Most common answers, all recorded puzzles
- noon 42
- onion 30
- naan 30
- nana 30
- toot 28
- loll 28
- mama 25
- mamma 25
- cocoon 23
- acacia 23
- acai 23
- loon 23
- nene 23
- olio 23
- bill 22
- neon 22
- none 22
- lilt 21
- till 21
- tilt 21
- aria 21
- onto 21
- toon 21
- cancan 21
- canna 21
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.
- befool
- befooled
- boff
- bouffe
- buffo
- delf
- felloe
- feod
- feoff
- feoffed
- feoffee
- feued
- flubdub
- flued
- fubbed
- fuelled
- fulled
- loof
- luffed