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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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inhabit
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inhabitant
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inhabitation
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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.
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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.
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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.
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iota
noun — The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet.
noun — A jot; a very small, insignificant quantity.
Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.
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natant
adjective — Floating or swimming (in water)
adjective — In a horizontal position, as if swimming
Appeared in 21 recorded puzzles.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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tannin
noun — Tannic acid or any of its derivatives.
Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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titan
noun — Something or someone of very large stature, greatness, or godliness.
Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.
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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.
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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.
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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
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 12 | Σ | |
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| a | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | · | 1 | · | 6 |
| b | 6 | 3 | 2 | · | · | · | · | 11 |
| h | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | · | 1 | · | 8 |
| i | 2 | · | · | 2 | · | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| n | · | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | · | · | 6 |
| o | 3 | · | 1 | · | · | · | · | 4 |
| t | 6 | 5 | 3 | · | · | · | · | 14 |
| Σ | 21 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 58 |
The numbers
Genius today takes 197 points of 282 available. The average answer runs 5.7 letters.
Word lengths, today vs. 19216 recorded answers
History
Today's letters, last seen
| Letter | Last in a puzzle | Last 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
- noon 45
- naan 34
- nana 34
- toot 32
- onion 31
- loll 29
- mama 27
- mamma 27
- acacia 25
- acai 25
- nene 25
- cocoon 24
- onto 24
- toon 24
- mini 24
- minim 24
- loon 24
- olio 24
- aria 23
- imam 23
- maim 23
- mitt 23
- cancan 23
- canna 23
- neon 23
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.
- anatto
- anta
- attaint
- babbitt
- baith
- batt
- bhoot
- binit
- bint
- biont
- bitt
- bonita
- bota
- bott
- habitan
- habitant
- hant
- inanition
- inti
- natation
- niton
- nota
- otto
- tain
- tanto
- thio
- thionin
- titania
- titbit
- tithonia
- titi
- titian
- toit