Saturday, March 28, 2026
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- Genius
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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.
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ante
noun — A price or cost, as in up the ante.
verb — To pay the ante in poker. Often used as ante up.
noun — In poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to the pot before dealing the cards.
verb — To make an investment in money, effort, or time before knowing one's chances.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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antenna
noun — A feeler organ on the head of an insect, crab, or other animal.
noun — An apparatus to receive or transmit electromagnetic waves and convert respectively to or from an electrical signal.
noun — The faculty of intuitive astuteness.
noun — A fragment of an oligosaccharide
noun — The spar to which a lateen sail is attached, which is then hoisted up the mast.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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antennae
noun — A feeler organ on the head of an insect, crab, or other animal.
noun — An apparatus to receive or transmit electromagnetic waves and convert respectively to or from an electrical signal.
noun — The faculty of intuitive astuteness.
noun — A fragment of an oligosaccharide
noun — The spar to which a lateen sail is attached, which is then hoisted up the mast.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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banana
noun — An elongated curved tropical fruit that grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.
adjective — Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.
noun — The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas. The plant, usually of the genus Musa but sometimes also including plants from Ensete, has large, elongated leaves and is related to the plantain.
noun — A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.
noun — (mildly) A person of Asian descent, especially a Chinese American, who has assimilated into Western culture or married a Caucasian (from the "yellow" outside and "white" inside). Compare coconut or Oreo.
noun — A banana equivalent dose.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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bane
noun — A cause of misery or death.
verb — To kill, especially by poison; to be the poison of.
noun — Bone
noun — Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants.
noun — A killer, murderer, slayer.
noun — Destruction; death.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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bean
noun — A reusable software component written in Java.
noun — Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods.
verb — To hit deliberately with a projectile, especially in the head.
noun — The large edible seed of such a plant (for example, a broad bean, navy bean or garbanzo bean).
noun — The edible seedpod of such a plant.
noun — (by extension) The bean-like seed of certain other plants, such a a vanilla bean or (especially) a coffee bean.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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been
noun — A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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betaken
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eaten
verb — To ingest; to be ingested.
adjective — (especially in combination) That has been consumed by eating
verb — To use up.
verb — To cause (someone) to worry.
verb — To take the loss in a transaction.
verb — To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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emanate
verb — To come from a source; issue from.
verb — To send or give out; manifest.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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embank
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embankment
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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.
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entente
noun — An informal alliance or friendly understanding between two states.
Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.
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katana
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keen
adjective — Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness or willingness; eager, enthusiastic, interested.
adjective — Having a fine edge or point; sharp.
adjective — Acute of mind, having or expressing mental acuteness; penetrating, sharp.
adjective — Of cold, wind, etc.: cutting, penetrating, piercing, sharp.
adjective — Fierce, intense, vehement.
adjective — Of prices, extremely low as to be competitive.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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kente
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knee
noun — In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank.
noun — The part of a garment that covers the knee.
noun — An act of kneeling, especially to show respect or courtesy.
verb — To poke or strike with the knee.
verb — To move on the knees; to use the knees to move.
noun — A blow made with the knee; a kneeing.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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manatee
noun — Any of several plant-eating marine mammals, of family Trichechidae, found in tropical regions.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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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.
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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.
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manta
noun — A kind of fabric or blanket used in Latin America and southwestern United States.
noun — Any of several very large pelagic rays of the genus Manta, with winglike pectoral fins, a long tail, and two fins resembling horns that project from the head.
Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.
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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.
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meant
verb — To intend.
verb — To convey (a meaning).
verb — To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
verb — To cause or produce (a given result); to bring about (a given result).
verb — (usually with to) To be of some level of importance.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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mentee
noun — A person who is being mentored
Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.
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naan
noun — A type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine.
Appeared in 33 recorded puzzles.
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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.
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nana
noun — (term of endearment) one's grandmother
noun — A banana
noun — A fool
noun — A nanny
Appeared in 33 recorded puzzles.
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nankeen
noun — A type of cotton cloth originally from Nanking in China.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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natant
adjective — Floating or swimming (in water)
adjective — In a horizontal position, as if swimming
Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.
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neat
noun — An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy.
adjective — Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.
noun — A bull or cow.
adjective — Free from contaminants; unadulterated, undiluted. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below.
adjective — Conditions with a liquid reagent or gas performed with no standard solvent or cosolvent.
adjective — With all deductions or allowances made; net.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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neaten
verb — To make neat; arrange in an orderly, tidy way; to tidy.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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nene
noun — The Hawaiian goose, Branta sandvicensis, which was designated the state bird of Hawaii in 1957.
Appeared in 25 recorded puzzles.
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taken
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tank
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tanka
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teen
noun — A teenager.
adjective — Of or having to do with teenagers; teenage
noun — Grief; sorrow; trouble.
verb — To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
verb — (provincial) To hedge or fence in; to enclose.
noun — Vexation; anger; hate.
Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.
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tenant
noun — One who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others.
verb — To hold as, or be, a tenant.
noun — One who has possession of any place.
noun — One who holds a property by any kind of right, including ownership.
noun — Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.
verb — To inhabit.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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tenement
noun — A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.
noun — Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned.
noun — Dwelling; abode; habitation.
Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.
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tenet
noun — An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization.
Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.
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tent
noun — A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.
verb — To go camping.
noun — Attention; regard, care.
verb — To attend to; to heed
noun — A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
verb — (sometimes figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.
Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.
Hints, no spoilers
Words by first two letters
- ab×2
- am×1
- an×3
- ba×6
- be×5
- ea×1
- em×3
- en×2
- ka×1
- ke×2
- kn×1
- ma×4
- me×3
- na×5
- ne×3
- ta×3
- te×5
Words by first letter and length
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Σ | |
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| a | 2 | · | · | 1 | 2 | 1 | · | 6 |
| b | 5 | · | 4 | 1 | · | 1 | · | 11 |
| e | · | 2 | 1 | 2 | · | · | 1 | 6 |
| k | 2 | 1 | 1 | · | · | · | · | 4 |
| m | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | · | · | · | 7 |
| n | 5 | · | 2 | 1 | · | · | · | 8 |
| t | 3 | 3 | 1 | · | 1 | · | · | 8 |
| Σ | 19 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 50 |
The numbers
Genius today takes 157 points of 225 available. The average answer runs 5.5 letters.
Word lengths, today vs. 18766 recorded answers
History
Today's letters, last seen
| Letter | Last in a puzzle | Last as center |
|---|---|---|
| a | Friday, March 27, 2026 | Friday, March 27, 2026 |
| b | Tuesday, March 24, 2026 | Monday, March 9, 2026 |
| e | Wednesday, March 25, 2026 | Saturday, March 21, 2026 |
| k | Tuesday, March 3, 2026 | Friday, January 23, 2026 |
| m | Thursday, March 26, 2026 | Friday, March 20, 2026 |
| n ● | Friday, March 27, 2026 | Thursday, March 19, 2026 |
| t | Wednesday, March 25, 2026 | Monday, February 9, 2026 |
Most common answers, all recorded puzzles
- noon 44
- naan 33
- nana 33
- onion 31
- toot 29
- loll 29
- mama 27
- mamma 27
- nene 25
- cocoon 24
- acacia 24
- acai 24
- loon 24
- olio 24
- imam 23
- maim 23
- cancan 23
- canna 23
- mini 23
- minim 23
- neon 23
- none 23
- aria 22
- mitt 22
- 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.
- akene
- ameban
- amebean
- ament
- anabaena
- ananke
- anent
- anna
- anta
- antae
- ataman
- atman
- attent
- bannet
- batman
- batmen
- bemean
- bename
- bene
- benne
- bennet
- enate
- enemata
- entameba
- entamebae
- etna
- kana
- kanban
- kane
- katakana
- kent
- ketene
- mana
- manana
- mannan
- meatman
- meatmen
- menta
- nabe
- neem
- nema
- nett
- tannate