Saturday, April 18, 2026
- Words
- 30
- Points
- 104
- Genius
- 72
- Pangram
- 1
Official answers
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bocce
noun — A game, similar to bowls or pétanque, played on a long, narrow, dirt-covered court
noun — One of the eight balls that the player throws in a game of bocce.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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cacao
noun — A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
noun — This tree's seed, the cocoa bean.
Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.
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cake
noun — A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
verb — Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
verb — To cackle like a goose.
noun — A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
noun — A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
noun — A block of any of various dense materials.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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camo
noun — A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.
verb — To camouflage.
noun — Clothes made from camouflage fabric, for concealment in combat or hunting.
verb — To put on camouflage clothing.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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coca
noun — Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
noun — A pastry typically made and consumed in the Spanish Mediterranean coast.
noun — The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (Erythroxylum coca), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine.
Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.
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cocoa
noun — The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.
adjective — Of a light to medium brown colour, like that of cocoa powder.
noun — Coconut palm.
noun — An unsweetened brown powder made from roasted, ground cocoa beans, used in making chocolate, and in cooking.
noun — A hot drink made with milk, cocoa powder, and sugar.
noun — A serving of this drink.
Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.
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coma
noun — A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.
noun — A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.
noun — A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that in an ideal image would appear as points.
noun — A tuft or bunch, such as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree, a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant, or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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comeback
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comma
noun — The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
verb — To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas.
noun — A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
noun — Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
noun — A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
noun — A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
Hints, no spoilers
Words by first two letters
- ab×1
- ac×1
- ba×2
- be×3
- bo×2
- ca×5
- co×12
- em×1
- ma×1
- me×1
- mo×1
Words by first letter and length
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 8 | Σ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 1 | · | · | 2 |
| b | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| c | 10 | 5 | · | 2 | 17 |
| e | · | 1 | · | · | 1 |
| m | 2 | 1 | · | · | 3 |
| Σ | 16 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 30 |
The numbers
Genius today takes 72 points of 104 available. The average answer runs 4.8 letters.
Word lengths, today vs. 19911 recorded answers
History
Today's letters, last seen
| Letter | Last in a puzzle | Last as center |
|---|---|---|
| a | Friday, April 17, 2026 | Wednesday, April 15, 2026 |
| b | Friday, April 17, 2026 | Tuesday, April 14, 2026 |
| c ● | Tuesday, April 14, 2026 | Thursday, April 9, 2026 |
| e | Wednesday, April 15, 2026 | Saturday, March 21, 2026 |
| k | Monday, April 6, 2026 | Friday, April 3, 2026 |
| m | Friday, April 17, 2026 | Wednesday, April 1, 2026 |
| o | Monday, April 13, 2026 | Thursday, April 2, 2026 |
Most common answers, all recorded puzzles
- noon 45
- naan 35
- nana 35
- toot 32
- onion 31
- loll 30
- mama 28
- mamma 28
- acacia 26
- acai 26
- nene 26
- imam 25
- maim 25
- mini 25
- minim 25
- cocoon 24
- lilt 24
- till 24
- tilt 24
- aria 24
- mitt 24
- onto 24
- toon 24
- loon 24
- olio 24
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.
- abaca
- ackee
- acock
- bacca
- baccae
- bemock
- cabob
- cabomba
- caca
- caeca
- caeoma
- ceca
- cobb
- coco
- comae
- comake
- combe
- coocoo
- cooee
- coomb
- coombe
- kebbock
- keck
- macaco
- mack
- mammock