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ABHINOT

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Words
58
Points
282
Genius
197
Pangrams
2

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  • abbot

    noun — The superior or head of an abbey or monastery.

    noun — The pastor and/or administrator of an order, including minor and major orders starting with the minor order of porter.

    noun — A layman who received the abbey's revenues, after the closing of the monasteries.

    noun — (British slang) A brothel-owner's husband or lover.

    noun — (British slang) A ponce; a man employed by a prostitute to find clients, and who may also act as a bodyguard or equivalent to a bouncer.

    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • annatto

    noun — A tropical American evergreen shrub, Bixa orellana; the lipstick tree; the fruit of the tree.

    noun — The seed of this tree used as a colouring or in Latin American cooking.

    noun — An orange-red dye obtained from this seed.

    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • annotation

    noun — A critical or explanatory commentary or analysis

    noun — A comment added to a text

    noun — The process of writing such comment or commentary

    noun — Metadata added to a document or program

    noun — Information relating to the genetic structure of sequences of bases

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • anoint

    verb — To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil.

    verb — To apply oil to or to pour oil upon, etc., as a sacred rite, especially for consecration.

    verb — To choose or nominate somebody for a leading or otherwise important position, especially formally or officially, or as an intended successor.

    verb — To mark somebody as an official ruler, especially a king or queen, as a part of a religious ceremony.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • anti

    adjective — Opposed to something.

    noun — A person opposed to a concept or principle.

    preposition — Alternative form of anti-

    adjective — That has a torsion angle between 90° and 180°

    Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.

  • attain

    verb — To gain (an object or desired result).

    verb — To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at (a place, time, state, etc.).

    verb — To reach in excellence or degree.

    verb — To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.

    verb — To get at the knowledge of.

    verb — To reach a person after being behind them.

    Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.

  • baht

    noun — The official currency of Thailand, equal to 100 satang.

    adverb — Without (Yorkshire dialect, famously part of the song title On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at)

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • bait

    noun — Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net.

    noun — Anything which allures; something used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something

    verb — To attract with bait; to entice.

    verb — To intentionally annoy, torment, or threaten by constant rebukes or threats; to harass.

    noun — Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests.

    verb — To affix bait to a trap or a fishing hook or fishing line.

    Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

  • bath

    noun — A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.

    noun — The act of bathing.

    verb — To wash a person or animal in a bath

    noun — A room containing a shower and/or bathtub, and (typically but not necessarily) a toilet.

    noun — A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.

    noun — A building or area where bathing occurs.

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • baton

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • biota

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • biotin

    noun — A sulfur-containing member of the vitamin B complex, 5-[(3aS,4S,6aR)-2-oxohexahydro-1H-thieno[3,4-d]imidazol-4-yl]pentanoic acid, found in liver, egg yolk, milk and yeast, essential to the activity of multiple enzyme systems.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • boat

    noun — A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind.

    verb — To travel by boat.

    noun — A full house.

    noun — A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.

    noun — One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.

    noun — The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.

    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • bonito

    noun — Any of various marine fish of the genus Sarda, that are related to and resemble the tuna.

    noun — A large tropical fish, the skipjack tuna, allied to the tunny, Katsuwonus pelamis.

    noun — The medregal (Seriola fasciata), an edible fish of the southern of the United States and the West Indies.

    noun — The cobia or crab eater (Rachycentron canadum), an edible fish of warm waters globally.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • boot

    noun — A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.

    verb — To kick.

    noun — Remedy, amends.

    verb — To avail, benefit, profit.

    noun — The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device.

    verb — To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • booth

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • both

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • habit

    noun — An action performed on a regular basis.

    noun — An action performed repeatedly and automatically, usually without awareness.

    noun — An addiction.

    noun — A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns.

    noun — A piece of clothing worn uniformly for a specific activity.

    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • habitat

    noun — Conditions suitable for an organism or population of organisms to live.

    noun — A place or type of site where an organism or population naturally occurs.

    noun — A terrestrial or aquatic area distinguished by geographic, abiotic and biotic features, whether entirely natural or semi-natural.

    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • habitation

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  • hath

    verb — To possess, own.

    verb — To hold, as something at someone's disposal.

    verb — Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.

    verb — To partake of (a particular substance, especially food or drink, or action or activity).

    verb — To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.

    verb — To experience, go through, undergo.

    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • hatha

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    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • hint

    noun — A clue.

    verb — To suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue.

    noun — A tacit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.

    noun — A small, barely detectable amount of.

    noun — Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering. Also known as hinting.

    noun — An opportunity; occasion; fit time.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • hobbit

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • hoot

    noun — A derisive cry or shout.

    verb — To cry out or shout in contempt.

    noun — The cry of an owl.

    noun — A fun event or person. (See hootenanny)

    noun — A small particle.

    verb — To make the cry of an owl, a hoo.

    Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

  • inhabit

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  • inhabitant

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  • inhabitation

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  • inhibit

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • inhibition

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • initiation

    noun — The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced

    noun — The form or ceremony by which a person is introduced into any society; mode of entrance into an organized body; especially, the rite of admission into a secret society or order.

    noun — The first step of transcription or of transduction.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • into

    preposition — To or towards the inside of.

    preposition — To or towards the region of.

    preposition — Against, especially with force or violence.

    preposition — Indicates transition into another form or substance.

    preposition — After the start of.

    preposition — Interested in or attracted to.

    Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.

  • intonation

    noun — The rise and fall of the voice in speaking.

    noun — The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.

    noun — Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise.

    noun — Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest.

    noun — A thundering; thunder.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • iota

    noun — The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet.

    noun — A jot; a very small, insignificant quantity.

    Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

  • nanobot

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • natant

    adjective — Floating or swimming (in water)

    adjective — In a horizontal position, as if swimming

    Appeared in 21 recorded puzzles.

  • nation

    noun — A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.

    noun — Damnation.

    adverb — Extremely, very.

    noun — A sovereign state.

    noun — An association of students based on its members' birthplace or ethnicity.

    noun — A great number; a great deal.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • ninth

    noun — The person or thing in the ninth position.

    verb — To lose a ninth

    adjective — The ordinal form of the number nine.

    noun — One of nine equal parts of a whole.

    noun — The compound interval between any tone and the tone represented on the ninth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and two of the octave above; the octave of the second, consisting of 13 or 14 semitones (called minor and major ninth).

    verb — To divide by nine

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • notation

    noun — The act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters.

    noun — A system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in an art or science or in mathematics or logic to express technical facts or quantities.

    noun — A specific note or piece of information written in such a notation.

    Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

  • notion

    noun — Mental apprehension of whatever may be known, thought, or imagined; idea, concept.

    noun — A sentiment; an opinion.

    noun — Sense; mind.

    noun — An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack.

    noun — Any small article used in sewing and haberdashery, either for attachment to garments or as a tool, such as a button, zipper, or thimble.

    noun — Inclination; intention; disposition.

    Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.

  • oath

    noun — A solemn pledge or promise, appealing to a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest to the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise.

    verb — To pledge.

    noun — A statement or promise which is strengthened (affirmed) by such a pledge.

    noun — A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity.

    noun — A curse, a curse word.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • obit

    noun — Death of a person.

    noun — An obituary.

    noun — A mass or other service held for the soul of a dead person.

    noun — A record of a person's death.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • obtain

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • onto

    adjective — (of a function) Assuming each of the values in its codomain; having its range equal to its codomain.

    preposition — Upon; on top of.

    preposition — Aware of.

    preposition — Being an onto function with a codomain of (see below).

    Appeared in 24 recorded puzzles.

  • taboo

    noun — An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.

    verb — To mark as taboo.

    adjective — Excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention.

    noun — (in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred.

    verb — To ban.

    verb — To avoid.

    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • tahini

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • taint

    verb — To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.

    noun — A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish

    noun — A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food

    verb — To spoil (food) by contamination.

    noun — Infection; corruption; deprivation

    noun — A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.

    Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.

  • tannin

    noun — Tannic acid or any of its derivatives.

    Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.

  • tattoo

    noun — An image made in the skin with ink and a needle.

    verb — To apply a tattoo to (someone or something).

    noun — A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out).

    verb — To tap rhythmically on, to drum.

    noun — A breed of pony from India; a pony of that breed.

    noun — A method of decorating the skin by inserting colored substances under the surface with a sharp instrument (usually a solenoid-driven needle).

    Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.

  • than

    adverb — At that time; then.

    preposition — Introduces a comparison, and is associated with comparatives, and with words such as more, less, and fewer. Typically, it seeks to measure the force of an adjective or similar description between two predicates.

    conjunction — Used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison.

    conjunction — (obsolete outside dialectal, usually used with for) Because; for.

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • that

    noun — Something being indicated that is there; one of those.

    adverb — (degree) To a given extent or degree.

    pronoun — (demonstrative) The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction.

    conjunction — Introducing a clause which is the subject or object of a verb (such as one involving reported speech), or which is a complement to a previous statement.

    adverb — (degree) To a great extent or degree; very, particularly (in negative constructions).

    adverb — To such an extent; so. (in positive constructions).

    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • thin

    noun — A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.

    verb — To make thin or thinner.

    adjective — Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.

    adverb — Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.

    noun — Any food produced or served in thin slices.

    verb — To become thin or thinner.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • tibia

    noun — The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee, the shinbone

    noun — The second segment from the end of an insect's leg, between the femur and tarsus.

    noun — The third segment from the end of an arachnid's leg, between the patella and metatarsus.

    noun — A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.

    Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

  • tint

    verb — To shade, to color.

    noun — A slight coloring.

    noun — A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)

    noun — A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.

    noun — A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.

    Appeared in 22 recorded puzzles.

  • titan

    noun — Something or someone of very large stature, greatness, or godliness.

    Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.

  • toon

    noun — A cartoon, especially an animated television show.

    noun — A southeast Asian and Australian tree (Toona ciliata or Toona australis) of the mahogany family with fragrant dark red wood and flowers that yield a dye.

    noun — A town.

    noun — A melody.

    noun — A player's avatar or visible character in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.

    noun — The wood of this tree.

    Appeared in 24 recorded puzzles.

  • toot

    noun — The noise of a horn or whistle.

    verb — To stand out, or be prominent.

    noun — A toilet.

    noun — (by extension) A fart; flatus.

    noun — Cocaine.

    noun — A portion of cocaine that a person snorts.

    Appeared in 32 recorded puzzles.

  • tooth

    noun — A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for eating.

    verb — To provide or furnish with teeth.

    noun — A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.

    noun — A projection on the edge of a gear that meshes with similar projections on adjacent gears, or on the circumference of a cog that engages with a chain.

    noun — A projection or point in other parts of the body resembling the tooth of a vertebrate animal.

    noun — A pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.

    Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

Hints, no spoilers

Words by first two letters

  • ab×1
  • an×4
  • at×1
  • ba×4
  • bi×2
  • bo×5
  • ha×5
  • hi×1
  • ho×2
  • in×8
  • io×1
  • na×3
  • ni×1
  • no×2
  • oa×1
  • ob×2
  • on×1
  • ta×5
  • th×3
  • ti×3
  • to×3

Words by first letter and length

456781012Σ
a 1121·1· 6
b 632···· 11
h 3211·1· 8
i 2··2·41 9
n ·1311·· 6
o 3·1···· 4
t 653···· 14
Σ 2112125161 58

The numbers

Genius today takes 197 points of 282 available. The average answer runs 5.7 letters.

Total points vs. all 426 recorded puzzles
80th percentile
Word count vs. all recorded puzzles
80th percentile

Word lengths, today vs. 19216 recorded answers

421 today34.4% all-time512 today22.9% all-time612 today20.0% all-time75 today12.0% all-time81 today6.3% all-time92.6% all-time106 today1.3% all-time110.3% all-time121 today0.1% all-time130.0% all-time

History

Today's letters, last seen

LetterLast in a puzzleLast as center
a Monday, April 6, 2026 Sunday, April 5, 2026
b Saturday, April 4, 2026 Sunday, March 29, 2026
h Monday, April 6, 2026 Monday, April 6, 2026
i Sunday, April 5, 2026 Thursday, March 26, 2026
n Tuesday, April 7, 2026 Saturday, March 28, 2026
o Thursday, April 2, 2026 Thursday, April 2, 2026
t ● Sunday, April 5, 2026 Monday, March 30, 2026

Most common answers, all recorded puzzles

  1. noon 45
  2. naan 34
  3. nana 34
  4. toot 32
  5. onion 31
  6. loll 29
  7. mama 27
  8. mamma 27
  9. acacia 25
  10. acai 25
  11. nene 25
  12. cocoon 24
  13. onto 24
  14. toon 24
  15. mini 24
  16. minim 24
  17. loon 24
  18. olio 24
  19. aria 23
  20. imam 23
  21. maim 23
  22. mitt 23
  23. cancan 23
  24. canna 23
  25. neon 23

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Dictionary words the Bee never takes

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