Sunday, April 19, 2026
- Words
- 68
- Points
- 363
- Genius
- 254
- Pangrams
- 2
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allium
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alumina
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aluminum
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alumna
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alumni
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autumnal
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illuminati
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imam
noun — (usually capitalized) A Shi'ite Muslim leader.
noun — One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.
Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.
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lama
noun — A master of Tibetan Buddhism.
noun — A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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limit
noun — A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
verb — To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
noun — The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
noun — A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
noun — A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
noun — (as "the limit") A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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limn
verb — To draw or paint; to delineate.
verb — To illuminate, as a manuscript; to decorate with gold or some other bright colour.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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llama
noun — A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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mail
noun — A bag or wallet.
verb — (ditransitive) To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail.
noun — Armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together.
verb — To arm with mail.
noun — An old French coin worth half a denier.
noun — A bag containing letters to be delivered by post.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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maim
noun — A serious wound
verb — To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.
Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.
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mall
noun — A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
verb — To beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise
noun — An enclosed shopping centre.
noun — An alley where the game of pall mall was played.
noun — A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade.
noun — A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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malt
noun — Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.
verb — To convert a cereal grain into malt by causing it to sprout (by soaking in water) and then halting germination (by drying with hot air) in order to develop enzymes that can break down starches and proteins in the grain.
noun — Malt liquor, especially malt whisky.
noun — A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor.
noun — Maltose-rich sugar derived from malted grain.
verb — To become malt.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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mama
noun — (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.
Appeared in 25 recorded puzzles.
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mamma
noun — The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. (plural: mammae)
noun — (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.
noun — An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera
Appeared in 25 recorded puzzles.
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mammal
noun — An animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and feeding milk to its young.
noun — A vertebrate with three bones in the inner ear and one in the jaw.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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manual
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manumit
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matutinal
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militia
noun — An army of trained civilians, which may be an official reserve army, called upon in time of need, the entire able-bodied population of a state which may also be called upon, or a private force not under government control.
noun — The police in the Soviet Union and some related or successor states (e.g. modern Belarus).
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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mill
noun — A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
verb — (followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.
noun — A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.
noun — An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality, such as a divorce mill, a puppy mill, etc.
noun — An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised
noun — The building housing such a grinding apparatus.
Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.
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mini
adjective — Miniature, tiny, small.
noun — A miniskirt.
noun — A minicomputer.
Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.
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minim
noun — A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
noun — Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
noun — A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
noun — A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
noun — A little man or being; a dwarf.
noun — A small fish; a minnow.
Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.
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mint
adjective — (with condition) Like new.
noun — Any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems.
noun — A mint-flavored candy, often eaten to sweeten the smell of the breath.
noun — The flavouring of the plant, either a sweet, a jelly or sauce.
noun — A large amount of money. A vast sum or amount, etc.
noun — A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.
Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.
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minutia
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mitt
noun — An oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt.
noun — A mitten
noun — (especially in plural) A hand.
Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.
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tantalum
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tatami
noun — Straw matting, in a standard size, used as a floor covering in Japanese houses
Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.
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titanium
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ultima
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ultimata
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ultimatum
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Hints, no spoilers
Words by first two letters
- al×6
- an×2
- au×2
- il×2
- im×1
- la×3
- li×4
- ll×1
- ma×20
- mi×12
- mu×5
- ta×2
- ti×1
- tu×1
- ul×3
- um×2
- un×1
Words by first letter and length
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Σ | |
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| a | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | · | · | 10 |
| i | 1 | 1 | · | · | · | · | 1 | 3 |
| l | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | · | · | · | 8 |
| m | 13 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 37 |
| t | · | · | 2 | · | 2 | · | · | 4 |
| u | · | 2 | 2 | · | 1 | 1 | · | 6 |
| Σ | 18 | 11 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 68 |
The numbers
Genius today takes 254 points of 363 available. The average answer runs 5.9 letters.
Word lengths, today vs. 17231 recorded answers
History
Today's letters, last seen
| Letter | Last in a puzzle | Last as center |
|---|---|---|
| a | Saturday, April 18, 2026 | Wednesday, April 15, 2026 |
| i | Friday, April 17, 2026 | Thursday, March 26, 2026 |
| l | Thursday, April 16, 2026 | Saturday, April 11, 2026 |
| m ● | Saturday, April 18, 2026 | Wednesday, April 1, 2026 |
| n | Friday, April 17, 2026 | Sunday, April 12, 2026 |
| t | Thursday, April 16, 2026 | Wednesday, April 8, 2026 |
| u | Monday, April 13, 2026 | Monday, March 23, 2026 |
Most common answers, all recorded puzzles
- noon 41
- naan 30
- nana 30
- onion 28
- toot 28
- loll 27
- mama 25
- mamma 25
- cocoon 23
- nene 23
- acacia 22
- acai 22
- bill 22
- loon 22
- aria 21
- onto 21
- toon 21
- cancan 21
- canna 21
- neon 21
- none 21
- olio 21
- lilt 20
- till 20
- tilt 20
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.
- alma
- alumin
- aluminium
- amain
- amanita
- amanitin
- amia
- amin
- amnia
- animi
- antiman
- ataman
- atma
- atman
- illinium
- illuminant
- imaum
- intima
- intimal
- lamia
- liman
- limina
- limuli
- linum
- lumina
- luminal
- maill
- malm
- mammati
- mammilla
- mana
- manana
- manilla
- manitu
- mannan
- mantua
- matin
- matinal
- matt
- mattin
- maun
- maut
- miaul
- milia
- milium
- milt
- mina
- minimill
- minium
- minutial
- mulla
- multiunit
- mumm
- mumu
- muni
- muntin
- numina
- tallitim
- tamal
- tinman
- titman
- tumuli
- ulama