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NYT Spelling Bee answers & analysis

ACENTXI

Monday, June 1, 2026

Words
44
Points
223
Genius
156
Pangram
1

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  • acacia

    noun — A shrub or tree of the tribe Acacieae.

    noun — (history) A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals.

    noun — The thickened or dried juice of several species in Acacieae, in particular Vachellia nilotica (syn. Acacia nilotica), the Egyptian acacia.

    noun — A false acacia; robinia tree, Robinia pseudoacacia.

    noun — Gum arabic; gum acacia.

    noun — Any of several related trees, such as the locust tree.

    Appeared in 25 recorded puzzles.

  • acai

    noun — The fruit of these trees, harvested for its juice.

    noun — Any of several South American palms, of the genus Euterpe, having a dark purple drupe.

    Appeared in 25 recorded puzzles.

  • acetic

    adjective — Of, pertaining to, or producing vinegar

    adjective — Of or pertaining to acetic acid or its derivatives

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • ancient

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    Appeared in 2 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 18 recorded puzzles.

  • antic

    noun — A grotesque representation of a figure; a gargoyle.

    verb — To perform antics, caper.

    adjective — Playful, funny, absurd

    adjective — Having existed in ancient times, descended from antiquity; used especially in reference to Greece and Rome.

    noun — A pose, often exaggerated, in anticipation of an action; for example, a brief squat before jumping

    noun — A caricature.

    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • ataxia

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    Appeared in 4 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 18 recorded puzzles.

  • attic

    noun — The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.

    Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.

  • cacti

    noun — Any member of the family Cactaceae, a family of flowering New World succulent plants suited to a hot, semi-desert climate.

    noun — Any succulent plant with a thick fleshy stem bearing spines but no leaves, such as euphorbs.

    Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.

  • canine

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    Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

  • cantina

    noun — A drinking establishment, often specifically of the type found in Latin America.

    noun — Abbreviated form of cantina truck, cantina wagon or cantina trailer

    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • cite

    verb — To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.

    noun — A citation

    verb — To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.

    verb — To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.

    Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

  • entice

    verb — To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • excite

    verb — To stir the emotions of.

    verb — To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate.

    verb — To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level.

    verb — To energize (an electromagnet); to produce a magnetic field in.

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • exit

    noun — An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.

    verb — To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.

    noun — A way out.

    noun — The act of departing from life; death.

    verb — To depart from life; to die.

    verb — To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.)

    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • extinct

    verb — To make extinct; to extinguish or annihilate.

    adjective — Extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc.)

    adjective — No longer used; obsolete, discontinued.

    adjective — (of a group of organisms, as a species) No longer in existence; having died out.

    adjective — No longer active.

    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • inane

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    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

  • incant

    verb — To state solemnly, to chant.

    verb — To recite an incantation.

    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • incite

    verb — To stir up or excite; to rouse or goad into action.

    Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

  • inexact

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  • initiate

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • innate

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • innie

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    Appeared in 16 recorded puzzles.

  • intact

    adjective — Left complete or whole; not touched, defiled, sullied or otherwise damaged

    adjective — Of animals, not castrated: an intact bull.

    adjective — Uncircumcised; commonly used to describe a penis with a foreskin in intactivism.

    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • intent

    noun — A purpose; something that is intended.

    adjective — Firmly fixed or concentrated on something.

    noun — The state of someone’s mind at the time of committing an offence.

    adjective — Engrossed.

    adjective — Unwavering from a course of action.

    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

  • niacin

    noun — A water-soluble vitamin, a component of vitamin B complex, found in meat, yeast, and dairy products; it is essential to metabolism.

    Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

  • nice

    noun — Niceness.

    adjective — Pleasant, satisfactory.

    adverb — Nicely.

    interjection — Used to signify a job well done.

    verb — To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority.

    adjective — Of a person: friendly, attractive.

    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • niece

    noun — A daughter of one’s sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; either the daughter of one's brother ("fraternal niece"), or of one's sister ("sororal niece").

    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • nine

    noun — The digit or figure 9.

    numeral — A numerical value equal to 9; the number following eight and preceding ten.

    noun — A playing card with nine pips.

    noun — A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol.

    noun — (usually in the plural) A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.).

    noun — A baseball club, team, or lineup (composed of nine players).

    Appeared in 16 recorded puzzles.

  • nineteen

    numeral — The cardinal number occurring after eighteen and before twenty, represented in Roman numerals as XIX and in Arabic numerals as 19. It is the last/largest of the "teens".

    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

  • nite

    noun — The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark.

    noun — (Astronomy) The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight.

    noun — (Legal) Often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.

    noun — An evening or night spent at a particular activity.

    noun — A night (and part of the days before and after it) spent in a place away from home, e.g. a hotel.

    noun — Nightfall.

    Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

  • tacit

    adjective — Expressed in silence; implied, but not made explicit; silent.

    adjective — Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction.

    Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.

  • tactic

    noun — A maneuver, or action calculated to achieve some end.

    adjective — Tactical; of or relating to the art of military and naval tactics.

    noun — A maneuver used against an enemy.

    noun — A sequence of moves that limits the opponent's options and results in an immediate and tangible advantage, typically in the form of material.

    adjective — Describing a polymer whose repeat units are identical.

    Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.

  • tactician

    noun — A person skilled in the planning and execution of tactics.

    Appeared in 11 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 18 recorded puzzles.

  • tannic

    adjective — Pertaining to, containing, or obtained from tannin.

    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

  • tannin

    noun — Tannic acid or any of its derivatives.

    Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.

  • taxi

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    Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

  • tinct

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    Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

  • tine

    noun — A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb.

    adjective — Small, diminutive

    noun — Trouble; distress; teen.

    verb — To kindle; to set on fire.

    verb — To shut in, or enclose.

    noun — A small branch, especially on an antler or horn.

    Appeared in 7 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 18 recorded puzzles.

  • titanic

    adjective — Having great size, or great strength, force or power.

    adjective — Of or relating to titanium, especially tetravalent titanium

    Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

inexact is a perfect pangram — all seven letters, each used exactly once.

Hints, no spoilers

Words by first two letters

  • ac×3
  • an×3
  • at×3
  • ca×3
  • ci×1
  • en×1
  • ex×3
  • in×9
  • ni×6
  • ta×7
  • ti×5

Words by first letter and length

456789Σ
a 2241·· 9
c 1111·· 4
e 1·21·· 4
i ·2511· 9
n 311·1· 6
t 3431·1 12
Σ 101016521 44

The numbers

Genius today takes 156 points of 223 available. The average answer runs 5.6 letters.

Total points vs. all 429 recorded puzzles
58th percentile
Word count vs. all recorded puzzles
46th percentile

Word lengths, today vs. 19363 recorded answers

410 today34.5% all-time510 today23.0% all-time616 today20.0% all-time75 today12.0% all-time82 today6.3% all-time91 today2.6% all-time101.2% all-time110.3% all-time120.1% all-time130.0% all-time

History

Today's letters, last seen

LetterLast in a puzzleLast as center
a Saturday, May 30, 2026 Friday, May 29, 2026
c Sunday, May 31, 2026 Sunday, May 31, 2026
e Friday, May 29, 2026 Tuesday, May 26, 2026
i ● Sunday, May 31, 2026 Thursday, May 14, 2026
n Saturday, May 30, 2026 Thursday, May 7, 2026
t Saturday, May 30, 2026 Monday, May 25, 2026
x Wednesday, May 27, 2026 first recorded time

Most common answers, all recorded puzzles

  1. noon 45
  2. naan 35
  3. nana 35
  4. toot 32
  5. onion 31
  6. loll 30
  7. mama 27
  8. mamma 27
  9. nene 26
  10. acacia 25
  11. acai 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

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.