Sunday, May 17, 2026
- Words
- 54
- Points
- 212
- Genius
- 148
- Pangrams
- 2
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allocator
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allot
verb — To distribute or apportion by (or as if by) lot.
verb — To assign or designate as a task or for a purpose.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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alto
noun — A musical part or section higher than tenor and lower than soprano, formerly the part that performed a countermelody above the tenor or main melody.
noun — A person or musical instrument that performs the alto part.
noun — An alto saxophone
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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aortal
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atoll
noun — A type of island consisting of a ribbon reef that nearly or entirely surrounds a lagoon and supports, in most cases, one to many islets on the reef platform. Atolls have a unique geology, so not all islands with a reef and a lagoon are atolls
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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call
noun — A telephone conversation.
verb — (heading) To use one's voice.
noun — A decision or judgement.
noun — The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
noun — A cry or shout.
noun — A short visit, usually for social purposes.
Appeared in 16 recorded puzzles.
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calla
noun — The calla lily, Zantedeschia aethiopica.
noun — A marsh plant native to cooler areas throughout the northern hemisphere, Calla palustris, having pale green flowers in a white spathe.
Appeared in 16 recorded puzzles.
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callaloo
noun — Any of various tropical plants grown in the Americas, especially of the genus Xanthosoma, cultivated for their edible leaves.
noun — A spicy soup or stew made from such leaves.
Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.
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carload
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cartload
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catcall
noun — A shout or whistle expressing dislike, especially from a crowd or audience; a jeer, a boo.
verb — To make such an exclamation.
noun — In the Eiffel programming language, a run-time error caused by use of the wrong data type.
noun — A shout, whistle, or comment of a sexual nature, usually made toward a passing woman.
noun — A whistle blown by a theatre-goer to express disapproval.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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cloaca
noun — (sometimes figurative) A sewer.
noun — The duct in reptiles, amphibians and birds, as well as most fish and some mammals, which serves as the common outlet for urination, defecation, and reproduction.
noun — An outhouse or lavatory.
noun — A duct through which gangrenous material escapes a body.
Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.
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clod
noun — A lump of something, especially of earth or clay.
verb — To pelt with clods.
noun — The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
noun — A stupid person; a dolt.
noun — Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.
verb — To throw violently; to hurl.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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clot
noun — A thrombus, solidified mass of blood.
verb — To form a clot or mass.
noun — A solidified mass of any liquid.
noun — A silly person.
verb — To cause to clot or form into a mass.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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coal
noun — A black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
verb — To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships).
noun — A piece of coal used for burning (this use is less common in American English)
noun — A type of coal, such as bituminous, anthracite, or lignite, and grades and varieties thereof.
noun — A glowing or charred piece of coal, wood, or other solid fuel.
noun — Charcoal.
Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.
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cola
noun — The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts.
noun — The punctuation mark ":".
noun — Part of the large intestine; the final segment of the digestive system, after (distal to) the ileum and before (proximal to) the anus.
noun — A cluster of buds on a cannabis plant.
noun — A beverage or a drink made with kola nut flavoring, caramel and carbonated water.
noun — The triangular colon (especially in context of not being able to type the actual triangular colon).
Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.
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cold
adjective — (of a thing) Having a low temperature.
noun — A condition of low temperature.
adverb — While at low temperature.
adjective — (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.
adjective — (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
adjective — Unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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collard
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colt
noun — A young male horse.
verb — To horse; to get with young.
noun — A young crane (bird).
noun — A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
noun — A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
noun — A young camel or donkey.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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cool
noun — A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.
adjective — Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.
verb — To lose heat, to get colder.
noun — A calm temperament.
noun — The property of being cool, popular or in fashion.
adjective — Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.
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doctoral
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doll
noun — A toy in the form of a human.
noun — A term of endearment: darling, sweetheart.
noun — (sometimes offensive) An attractive young woman
noun — A dollar.
noun — (now possibly offensive) A good-natured, cooperative or helpful girl.
noun — The smallest or pet pig in a litter.
Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.
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dollar
noun — Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.
noun — (by extension) Money generally.
noun — Imported from the United States, and paid for in U.S. dollars. (Note: distinguish "dollar wheat", North American farmers' slogan, meaning a market price of one dollar per bushel.)
noun — A quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of approximately the same size and composition as a then-contemporary dollar coin of the United States, and worth slightly more.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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dolor
noun — Sorrow, grief, misery or anguish.
noun — A unit of pain used to theoretically weigh people's outcomes.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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dolt
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droll
noun — A funny person; a buffoon, a wag.
verb — To jest, to joke.
adjective — Oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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drool
noun — Saliva trickling from the mouth.
verb — To secrete saliva, especially in anticipation of food.
noun — Stupid talk.
verb — To secrete any substance in a similar way.
verb — To react to something with uncontrollable desire.
verb — To talk nonsense; drivel.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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lard
noun — Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
verb — To garnish or strew, especially with reference to words or phrases in speech and writing.
verb — To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.
noun — Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.
verb — To smear with fat or lard.
verb — To fatten; to enrich.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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load
noun — A burden; a weight to be carried.
noun — (often in the plural) A large number or amount.
noun — A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.
verb — To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
verb — To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
noun — A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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local
noun — A person who lives near a given place.
adjective — From or in a nearby location.
adverb — In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.
noun — An anesthetic (anesthetic substance) that causes loss of sensation only to the area to which it is applied.
noun — A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
noun — A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.
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locator
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loco
adverb — A direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.
noun — A certain species of Astragalus or Oxytropis, capable of causing locoism.
verb — To poison with the loco plant; to affect with locoism.
adjective — Crazy.
noun — A locomotive.
verb — (by extension) To render insane.
Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.
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loll
verb — To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease.
verb — To hang extended from the mouth, like the tongue of an animal heated from exertion.
verb — To let (the tongue) hang from the mouth in this way.
Appeared in 30 recorded puzzles.
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loot
noun — A kind of scoop or ladle, chiefly used to remove the scum from brine-pans in saltworks.
noun — The act of plundering.
verb — To steal, especially as part of war, riot or other group violence.
noun — Plunder, booty, especially from a ransacked city.
noun — Any prize or profit received for free, especially Christmas presents
noun — Items dropped by defeated enemies.
Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.
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lord
noun — The master of the servants of a household; the master of a feudal manor
verb — Domineer or act like a lord.
noun — One possessing similar mastery over others; any feudal superior generally; any nobleman or aristocrat; any chief, prince, or sovereign ruler; in Scotland, a male member of the lowest rank of nobility (the equivalent rank in England is baron)
noun — One possessing similar mastery in figurative senses (esp. as lord of ~)
noun — The heavenly body considered to possess a dominant influence over an event, time, etc.
noun — A hunchback.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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lotto
noun — A game of chance similar to bingo
noun — A lottery
Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.
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octal
noun — The number system that uses the eight digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
adjective — Concerning numbers expressed in octal or mathematical calculations performed using octal.
noun — A digit or value in the octal number system.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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oral
adjective — Spoken rather than written.
adjective — Relating to the mouth.
noun — Oral sex.
noun — A spoken test or examination, particularly in a language class.
noun — A physical examination of the mouth.
Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.
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roll
noun — The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
verb — To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface.
noun — That which is rolled up.
noun — A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
noun — Something which rolls.
noun — A swagger or rolling gait.
Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.
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talc
noun — Originally a large range of transparent or glistening foliated minerals. Examples include mica, selenite and the hydrated magnesium silicate that the term talc generally has referred to in modern times (see below). Also an item made of such a mineral and depending for its function on the special nature of the mineral (see next). Mediaeval writers adopted the term from the Arabic.
verb — To apply talc to.
noun — A microscope slide made of a plate of mica, generally in use from the start of modern microscopy until the early nineteenth century, after which glass slides became the standard medium.
noun — A soft mineral, composed of hydrated magnesium silicate, that has a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, and usually occurs in foliated masses.
noun — Talcum powder.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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tall
adjective — (of a person) Having a vertical extent greater than the average. For example, somebody with a height of over 6 feet would generally be considered to be tall.
adjective — (of a building, etc.) Having its top a long way up; having a great vertical (and often greater than horizontal) extent; high.
adjective — (of a story) Hard to believe, such as a tall story or a tall tale.
adjective — (of a cup of coffee) A cup of coffee smaller than grande, usually 8 ounces.
noun — (possibly nonstandard) Someone or something that is tall.
Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.
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told
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toll
noun — Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
verb — To impose a fee for the use of.
noun — The act or sound of tolling
verb — To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
verb — To draw; pull; tug; drag.
verb — To take away; to vacate; to annul.
Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.
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tool
noun — A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
verb — To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
noun — Equipment used in a profession, e.g., tools of the trade.
noun — Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
noun — A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
noun — A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.
Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.
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total
noun — An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.
verb — To add up; to calculate the sum of.
adjective — Entire; relating to the whole of something.
noun — Sum.
verb — To equal a total of; to amount to.
verb — To demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss)
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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troll
noun — A supernatural being of varying size, now especially a grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges.
noun — An instance of trolling, especially, in fishing, the trailing of a baited line.
verb — To saunter.
noun — The act of moving round; routine; repetition.
verb — To move circularly; to roll; to turn.
noun — An ugly person of either sex, especially one seeking sexual experiences.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
Hints, no spoilers
Words by first two letters
- al×4
- ao×1
- at×1
- ca×7
- cl×4
- co×11
- do×5
- dr×2
- la×1
- lo×8
- oc×1
- or×1
- ro×1
- ta×2
- to×4
- tr×1
Words by first letter and length
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Σ | |
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| a | 1 | 3 | 1 | · | · | 1 | 6 |
| c | 9 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | · | 22 |
| d | 2 | 3 | 1 | · | 1 | · | 7 |
| l | 6 | 2 | · | 1 | · | · | 9 |
| o | 1 | 1 | · | · | · | · | 2 |
| r | 1 | · | · | · | · | · | 1 |
| t | 5 | 2 | · | · | · | · | 7 |
| Σ | 25 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 54 |
The numbers
Genius today takes 148 points of 212 available. The average answer runs 5.1 letters.
Word lengths, today vs. 19319 recorded answers
History
Today's letters, last seen
| Letter | Last in a puzzle | Last as center |
|---|---|---|
| a | Saturday, May 16, 2026 | Saturday, May 16, 2026 |
| c | Friday, May 15, 2026 | Tuesday, May 12, 2026 |
| d | Wednesday, May 13, 2026 | Friday, April 24, 2026 |
| l ● | Thursday, May 14, 2026 | Wednesday, May 13, 2026 |
| o | Saturday, May 16, 2026 | Saturday, April 25, 2026 |
| r | Wednesday, May 13, 2026 | Sunday, April 26, 2026 |
| t | Saturday, May 16, 2026 | Monday, May 11, 2026 |
Most common answers, all recorded puzzles
- noon 45
- naan 34
- nana 34
- toot 32
- onion 31
- loll 30
- mama 27
- mamma 27
- nene 26
- acacia 25
- acai 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.
- acold
- alar
- aldol
- allod
- artal
- atlatl
- calcar
- calo
- caracal
- caracol
- carl
- catalo
- cattalo
- claro
- cloacal
- cloot
- coala
- coccal
- collator
- colorado
- craal
- dotal
- lall
- loca
- loral
- lota
- olla
- ratal
- rotl
- tala
- talar
- tallol
- tola