Friday, July 10, 2026
Edited by Sam Ezersky
- Words
- 54
- Points
- 215
- Genius
- 150
- Pangram
- 1
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beef
noun — The meat from a cow, bull or other bovine.
adjective — Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.
verb — To add weight or strength to; to beef up.
noun — (plural: beefs) A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of faith or trust (in something or someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with)
adjective — Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
verb — To complain.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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beet
noun — A beetroot, a swollen root of such a plant.
noun — Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.
verb — To improve; to mend.
verb — To kindle a fire.
verb — To rouse.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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beetle
noun — Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.
noun — A small car, the Volkswagen Beetle (original version made 1938–2003, similar models made 1997–2010 and since 2011)
adjective — Protruding, jutting, overhanging. (As in beetle brows.)
noun — A game of chance in which players attempt to complete a drawing of a beetle, different dice rolls allowing them to add the various body parts.
verb — To move away quickly, to scurry away.
verb — To loom over; to extend or jut.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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befell
verb — To happen to.
verb — To happen.
verb — To fall upon; fall all over; overtake
verb — To fall.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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befoul
verb — To make foul; to soil; to contaminate, pollute.
verb — To stain or mar (for example with infamy or disgrace).
verb — (specifically) To defecate on, to soil with excrement.
verb — To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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bell
noun — A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.
noun — The sounding of a bell as a signal.
noun — A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
noun — A telephone call.
noun — An instrument situated on a bicycle's handlebar, used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.
noun — Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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belle
noun — An attractive woman.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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belt
noun — A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing.
noun — A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.
noun — (usually capitalized) A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt).
verb — To scream or sing in a loud manner.
verb — To hit someone or something.
verb — To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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betel
noun — Either of two plants often used in combination:
noun — A quid (chewing preparation) containing these and other plant materials; paan.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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blue
noun — The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this.
adjective — Of the colour blue.
adjective — Depressed, melancholic, sad.
adjective — Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.
noun — The sky, literally or figuratively.
noun — The ocean; deep waters.
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bluebell
noun — Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.
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bluebottle
noun — Any of various blowflies of the genus Calliphora that have an iridescent metallic-blue body and make a loud buzzing noise when flying.
noun — A marine jellyfish of the genus Physalia, which includes Physalia physalis, the Portuguese man-of-war, and Physalia utriculus, the Pacific man-of-war; a man-of-war.
noun — A cornflower, a plant that grows in grain fields, Centaurea cyanus, with blue flowers resembling bottles.
noun — A police officer.
noun — A blue ant, Diamma bicolor, a parasitic wasp native to Australia.
noun — Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium. Also called triangles.
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bobble
noun — Elasticated band used for securing hair (for instance in a ponytail), a hair tie
noun — A furry ball attached on top of a hat.
noun — A pill (a ball formed on the surface of the fabric, as on laundered clothes).
verb — To make a mistake in.
verb — To bob up and down.
noun — A wobbling motion.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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bootee
noun — A soft, woolen shoe, usually knitted, for a baby or small pet.
noun — An overshoe or sock worn to cover dirty shoes or feet.
noun — A thick sock worn under a wetsuit.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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bottle
noun — A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
noun — The contents of such a container.
noun — Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.
noun — A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
noun — Nerve, courage.
verb — To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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bottleful
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boule
noun — One of the bowls used in the French game of boules.
noun — A round loaf of bread.
verb — To shape (a piece of dough) into a ball.
noun — A round piece of dough.
noun — A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means.
noun — A council of citizens in Ancient Greece
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bubble
noun — A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
verb — To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
noun — A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
noun — The emotional and/or physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed.
noun — (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
noun — A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
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buffet
noun — A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
noun — Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
noun — A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.
verb — To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.
verb — To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
verb — To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.
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bullet
noun — A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
noun — A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle, (•), often used in lieu of numbers for marking items in a list. (see also bulleted)
noun — An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.
noun — One year of prison time
noun — A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition.
noun — A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.
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butte
noun — An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top.
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effete
adjective — Decadent, weak through self-indulgence.
adjective — (of a person) Affected, overrefined
adjective — Lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent.
adjective — Of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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etouffee
noun — A spiced Cajun stew of meat (crayfish, shellfish, alligator, chicken or another meat) and vegetables, typically cooked in a closed pot and then served with rice.
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feeble
adjective — Deficient in physical strength
adjective — Lacking force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; faint.
verb — To make feeble; to enfeeble.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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feel
verb — (heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
verb — (heading) To use or experience the sense of touch.
verb — To seem (through touch or otherwise).
noun — A vague mental impression.
noun — A quality of an object experienced by touch.
verb — To be or become aware of.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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feet
noun — Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
noun — A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.
noun — A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
noun — The base or bottom of anything.
noun — A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
noun — (often used attributively) Travel by walking.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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fell
verb — To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
verb — To strike down, kill, destroy.
adjective — Of a strong and cruel nature; eager and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.
noun — (obsolete outside Britain) A rocky ridge or chain of mountains.
noun — (obsolete outside Britain) A wild field or upland moor.
noun — The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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felt
verb — (heading) To use or experience the sense of touch.
verb — (heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
noun — A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
verb — To seem (through touch or otherwise).
verb — To be or become aware of.
verb — To experience the consequences of.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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fete
noun — A festival open to the public, the proceeds from which are often given to charity.
noun — A feast, celebration or carnival.
verb — (usually in the passive) To celebrate (a person).
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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fettle
noun — A state of proper physical condition; kilter or trim.
verb — To sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair.
noun — One's mental state; spirits.
noun — A person's mood or state, often assuming the worst.
verb — To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business.
verb — To prepare.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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flee
verb — To run away; to escape.
verb — To escape from.
verb — To disappear quickly; to vanish.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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fleet
noun — A group of vessels or vehicles.
adjective — Swift in motion; light and quick in going from place to place.
noun — Any group of associated items.
noun — A large, coordinated group of people.
noun — A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
adjective — Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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floe
noun — A low, flat mass of floating ice.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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flue
noun — A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace).
noun — An enclosed passageway in which to direct air or other gaseous current along.
noun — In an organ flue pipe, the opening between the lower lip and the languet.
noun — A woolly or downy substance; down, nap; a piece of this.
adjective — Shallow; flat
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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flute
noun — A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute, a transverse side-blown flute of European origin.
verb — To play on a flute.
noun — A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
noun — A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.
noun — A long French bread roll, baguette.
noun — A lengthwise groove, such as one of the lengthwise grooves on a classical column, or a groove on a cutting tool (such as a drill bit, endmill, or reamer), which helps to form both a cutting edge and a channel through which chips can escape
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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fuel
noun — Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
verb — To provide with fuel.
noun — Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action.
verb — To exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater.
noun — Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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left
verb — To depart; to separate from.
adjective — The opposite of right; toward the west when one is facing north.
noun — The left side or direction.
adverb — Towards the left side.
noun — The left hand or fist.
noun — The ensemble of left-wing political parties. Those holding left-wing views as a group.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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lobe
noun — Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form.
noun — A clear division of an organ that can be determined at the gross anatomy level, especially one of the parts of the brain, liver or lung.
noun — A semicircular pattern left on the ice as the skater travels across it.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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lube
noun — Lubricant
verb — To lubricate
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lute
noun — A fretted stringed instrument of European origin, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
noun — Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.
verb — To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.
noun — A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
noun — (brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.
verb — To fix or fasten something with lute.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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oboe
noun — A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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oleo
noun — Margarine
noun — The various fats and oils that go into the making of margarine.
Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.
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outlet
noun — A wall-mounted device such as a socket or receptacle connected to an electrical system at which current is taken to supply utilization equipment or appliances.
noun — A shop that sells the products of a particular manufacturer or supplier.
noun — A vent or similar passage to allow the escape of something.
noun — A river that runs out of a lake.
noun — Something which allows for the release of one's desires.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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teff
noun — The fine grain of this plant.
noun — A love grass, Eragrostis tef, with small seeds, grown as a cereal and for forage in Ethiopia and parts of Arabia.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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tell
verb — To convey by speech; to say.
verb — To narrate.
verb — To instruct or inform.
verb — To order; to direct, to say to someone.
verb — To reveal.
verb — To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.
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toffee
noun — A type of confectionery made by boiling sugar (or treacle, etc) with butter or milk, then cooling the mixture so that it becomes hard
noun — A small, individual piece of toffee
noun — Any kind of sweets; candy
verb — To coat in toffee.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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tootle
verb — To go (somewhere); to amble aimlessly.
verb — To make a soft toot sound.
verb — To play (a musical instrument) making such a sound.
noun — A soft toot sound.
noun — A trip or excursion.
verb — To transport (someone somewhere).
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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tote
noun — A tote bag.
verb — To carry or bear.
verb — To add up; to calculate a total.
noun — A heavy burden.
noun — (logistics) A kind of plastic box used for transporting goods.
noun — A pari-mutuel machine; a totalizator.
Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.
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tube
noun — Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
noun — An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.
noun — (often capitalized as Tube) The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.)
verb — To ride an inner tube.
noun — A television.
noun — A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
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tubeful
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tubule
noun — A small pipe or fistular body; a little tube.
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tuffet
noun — (furniture) A large cushion which may have an internal frame, used as a low seat or stool.
noun — A clump of grass or similar vegetation.
noun — An inflatable cushion serving as landing area for precision accuracy parachuting.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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tulle
noun — A kind of silk lace or light netting, used for clothing, veils, etc.
Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.
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tutee
noun — A student of a tutor.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
Hints, no spoilers
Words by first two letters
- be×9
- bl×3
- bo×5
- bu×4
- ef×1
- et×1
- fe×7
- fl×5
- fu×1
- le×1
- lo×1
- lu×2
- ob×1
- ol×1
- ou×1
- te×2
- to×3
- tu×6
Words by first letter and length
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Σ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| b | 5 | 4 | 9 | · | 1 | 1 | 1 | 21 |
| e | · | · | 1 | · | 1 | · | · | 2 |
| f | 9 | 2 | 2 | · | · | · | · | 13 |
| l | 4 | · | · | · | · | · | · | 4 |
| o | 2 | · | 1 | · | · | · | · | 3 |
| t | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | · | · | · | 11 |
| Σ | 24 | 8 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 54 |
The numbers
Genius today takes 150 points of 215 available. The average answer runs 5.2 letters.
Word lengths, today vs. 17142 recorded answers
History
Today's letters, last seen
| Letter | Last in a puzzle | Last as center |
|---|---|---|
| b | Thursday, July 9, 2026 | Saturday, July 4, 2026 |
| e ● | Thursday, July 9, 2026 | Wednesday, July 1, 2026 |
| f | Sunday, July 5, 2026 | Friday, June 5, 2026 |
| l | Wednesday, July 8, 2026 | Tuesday, June 2, 2026 |
| o | Thursday, July 9, 2026 | Sunday, July 5, 2026 |
| t | Wednesday, July 8, 2026 | Wednesday, June 24, 2026 |
| u | Wednesday, July 8, 2026 | Tuesday, May 19, 2026 |
Most common answers, all recorded puzzles
- noon 41
- naan 30
- nana 30
- onion 28
- toot 27
- loll 27
- mama 24
- mamma 24
- 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
- anon 20
- lull 19
- lulu 19
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.
- beebee
- befool
- bleb
- blet
- bluet
- bole
- bolete
- botel
- bouffe
- boulle
- bulbel
- bulblet
- bute
- buteo
- butle
- ebbet
- elute
- felloe
- feoff
- feoffee
- footle
- fouette
- leet
- lobule
- lotte
- obole
- outfeel
- outfelt
- outtell
- teel
- tele
- tole
- toluole
- tule