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NYT Spelling Bee answers & analysis

DEFLNUG

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Words
48
Points
232
Genius
162
Pangrams
2

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  • deluge

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • deluged

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • dengue

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  • dung

    noun — Manure; animal excrement.

    verb — To fertilize with dung.

    verb — To hit or strike.

    verb — To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.

    noun — A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.

    verb — (calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.

    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • edge

    noun — The boundary line of a surface.

    verb — To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.

    noun — A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.

    noun — An advantage.

    noun — The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.

    noun — A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • edged

    verb — To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.

    adjective — That has a sharp planar surface.

    verb — To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.

    verb — (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.

    verb — To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.

    verb — To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • egged

    verb — To throw eggs at.

    verb — To encourage, incite.

    verb — To dip in or coat with beaten egg.

    verb — To distort a circular cross-section (as in a tube) to an elliptical or oval shape, either inadvertently or intentionally.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • engulf

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  • engulfed

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  • fledge

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  • fledged

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  • flung

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  • fudge

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  • fudged

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  • fugu

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  • fugue

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  • geld

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • gelded

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • gelee

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    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • gelled

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • gene

    noun — A theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms; a gene may take several values and in principle predetermines a precise trait of an organism's form (phenotype), such as hair color.

    noun — A segment of DNA or RNA from a cell's or an organism's genome, that may take several forms and thus parameterizes a phenomenon, in general the structure of a protein; locus.

    Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

  • glee

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    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • gleeful

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  • glen

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    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • glue

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • glued

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • glug

    noun — The sound made when a significant amount of liquid is poured suddenly out of something, such as a jug or bottle.

    verb — To flow in noisy bursts.

    noun — The amount of liquid issued when the "glug" sound is heard.

    verb — To quickly swallow liquid.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • glugged

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • guff

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  • gulf

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  • gull

    noun — A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae.

    noun — A cheating trick; a fraud.

    verb — To deceive or cheat.

    noun — Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora.

    noun — One easily cheated; a dupe.

    noun — (Oxford University slang) A swindler or trickster.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • gulled

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • gunned

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  • ledge

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • legend

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • legged

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • luge

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • luged

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • lugged

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • lung

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • lunge

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • lunged

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  • lungful

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  • nudge

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  • nudged

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  • unfledged

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  • unglue

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • unglued

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Hints, no spoilers

Words by first two letters

  • de×3
  • du×1
  • ed×2
  • eg×1
  • en×2
  • fl×3
  • fu×4
  • ge×5
  • gl×7
  • gu×5
  • le×3
  • lu×7
  • nu×2
  • un×3

Words by first letter and length

456789Σ
d 1·21·· 4
e 121·1· 5
f 1321·· 7
g 9242·· 17
l 2341·· 10
n ·11··· 2
u ··11·1 3
Σ 141115611 48

The numbers

Genius today takes 162 points of 232 available. The average answer runs 5.4 letters.

Total points vs. all 418 recorded puzzles
62nd percentile
Word count vs. all recorded puzzles
55th percentile

Word lengths, today vs. 18877 recorded answers

414 today34.5% all-time511 today23.0% all-time615 today20.0% all-time76 today12.0% all-time81 today6.3% all-time91 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
d Friday, April 3, 2026 Monday, January 26, 2026
e Monday, April 6, 2026 Saturday, March 21, 2026
f Sunday, April 5, 2026 Tuesday, March 17, 2026
g ● Saturday, April 4, 2026 Saturday, April 4, 2026
l Sunday, April 5, 2026 Tuesday, March 31, 2026
n Friday, April 3, 2026 Saturday, March 28, 2026
u Saturday, April 4, 2026 Monday, March 23, 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. 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. 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.