Monday, August 10, 2026
Edited by Sam Ezersky
- Words
- 39
- Points
- 146
- Genius
- 102
- Pangram
- 1
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agar
noun — A gelatinous material obtained from red algae, especially Gracilaria species, used as a bacterial culture medium, in electrophoresis and as a food additive.
noun — A culture medium based on this material.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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agog
adjective — In eager desire, eager, astir.
adverb — In a state of high anticipation, excitement, or interest.
adjective — (chiefly of eyes) Wide open.
Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.
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agora
noun — A place for gathering.
noun — Since 1960, a monetary unit and coin of Israel, the 100th part of a shekel / sheqel.
noun — A marketplace, especially in Classical Greece.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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alga
noun — Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, including the seaweeds, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose biochemistry and forms are very diverse, some being eukaryotic.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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algal
noun — An alga.
adjective — Pertaining to, or like, algae
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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amalgam
noun — An alloy containing mercury.
verb — To amalgamate.
noun — A combination of different things.
noun — One of the ingredients in an alloy.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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arugula
noun — One of three yellowish-flowered Mediterranean herbs of the mustard family with flavoured leaves, often eaten in salads. Has a distinct, peppery flavor:
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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augur
noun — A diviner who foretells events by the behaviour of birds or other animals, or by signs derived from celestial phenomena, or unusual occurrences.
verb — To foretell events; to exhibit signs of future events.
noun — An official who interpreted omens before the start of public events.
verb — To anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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gaga
adjective — Mentally senile.
noun — A variant of dodgeball played inside a fenced area, usually a hexagon or octagon.
adjective — Crazy.
adjective — Infatuated.
Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.
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gala
noun — Pomp, show, or festivity.
adjective — Celebratory; festive.
noun — A member of an androgynous class of priests of the Sumerian goddess Inanna.
noun — A showy and festive party.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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gall
noun — Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.
verb — To bother or trouble.
noun — A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp Cynips quercusfolii.
verb — To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.
noun — The gall bladder.
noun — Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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gamma
noun — The third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ), preceded by beta (Β, β) and followed by delta, (Δ, δ).
noun — A nonlinear operation used to encode and decode luminance or tristimulus values in video or still image systems.
noun — The Gamma function, symbolized by Γ.
noun — A constant approximately equal to 0.55721566, symbolized by γ (also known as the Euler–Mascheroni constant).
noun — A non-SI unit of measure of magnetic flux density, equal to 1 nT.
noun — (industries) slope of log-log plot of video input and luminance output.
Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.
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glam
noun — Glamour.
verb — To make glamorous or more glamorous.
adjective — Glamorous.
noun — A style of rock music, glam rock, associated with an androgynous yet masculine look and a driving, pounding bluesy form of psychedelic rock; the fashion and culture associated with this genre.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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glamor
noun — Originally, enchantment; magic charm; especially, the effect of a spell that causes one to see objects in a form that differs from reality, typically to make filthy, ugly, or repulsive things seems beauteous.
verb — To enchant; to bewitch.
noun — Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal).
noun — Any excitement, appeal, or attractiveness associated with a person, place, or thing; that which makes something appealing.
noun — Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, or person, through which it or they appear delusively magnified or glorified.
noun — A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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glamour
noun — Originally, enchantment; magic charm; especially, the effect of a spell that causes one to see objects in a form that differs from reality, typically to make filthy, ugly, or repulsive things seems beauteous.
verb — To enchant; to bewitch.
noun — Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal).
noun — Any excitement, appeal, or attractiveness associated with a person, place, or thing; that which makes something appealing.
noun — Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, or person, through which it or they appear delusively magnified or glorified.
noun — A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
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glom
verb — To steal, to grab.
noun — Short for glomerulus.
verb — To stare.
verb — To attach.
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gloom
noun — Darkness, dimness or obscurity.
verb — To be dark or gloomy.
noun — A melancholic, depressing or despondent atmosphere.
noun — Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
noun — A drying oven used in gunpowder manufacture.
verb — To look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.
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glug
noun — The sound made when a significant amount of liquid is poured suddenly out of something, such as a jug or bottle.
verb — To flow in noisy bursts.
noun — The amount of liquid issued when the "glug" sound is heard.
verb — To quickly swallow liquid.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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glum
adjective — Despondent; moody; sullen
noun — Sullenness
verb — To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.
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goal
noun — A result that one is attempting to achieve.
verb — To score a goal.
noun — In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object.
noun — The act of placing the object into the goal.
noun — A point scored in a game as a result of placing the object into the goal.
noun — A noun or noun phrase that receives the action of a verb. The subject of a passive verb or the direct object of an active verb. Also called a patient, target, or undergoer.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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googol
numeral — The number 10^{100}, or ten to the power of a hundred.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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gram
noun — A unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g
noun — A leguminous plant grown for its seeds, especially the chickpea.
noun — Grandmother
adjective — Angry
noun — A photograph or video shared on this service.
noun — The seeds of these plants.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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gramma
noun — Grandmother
noun — A variety of pumpkin, a cultivar of Cucurbita moschata.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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grammar
noun — A system of rules and principles for speaking and writing a language.
verb — To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.
noun — The study of the internal structure of words (morphology) and the use of words in the construction of phrases and sentences (syntax).
noun — A book describing the rules of grammar of a language.
noun — A formal system specifying the syntax of a language.
noun — Actual or presumed prescriptive notions about the correct use of a language.
Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.
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grog
noun — (original meaning) An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.
noun — (by extension) Any alcoholic beverage.
noun — A glass or serving of an alcoholic beverage.
noun — An alcoholic beverage made with hot water or tea, sugar and rum, sometimes also with lemon or lime juice and spices, particularly cinnamon.
noun — A type of pre-fired clay that has been ground and screened to a specific particle size.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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groom
noun — A man who is about to marry.
noun — A person who cares for horses.
verb — To attend to one's appearance and clothing.
noun — One of several officers of the English royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain's department.
noun — A brushing or cleaning, as of a dog or horse.
verb — To care for (horses or other animals) by brushing and cleaning them.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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guar
noun — An annual legume (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba), used as a food for cattle and humans.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
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gulag
noun — A prison camp.
verb — To force into this prison or a similar system.
noun — The system of all Soviet prison and/or labor camps in use during the Stalinist period.
Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.
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gull
noun — A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae.
noun — A cheating trick; a fraud.
verb — To deceive or cheat.
noun — Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora.
noun — One easily cheated; a dupe.
noun — (Oxford University slang) A swindler or trickster.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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guru
noun — A Hindu or Sikh spiritual teacher.
noun — (sometimes humorous) An influential advisor or mentor.
Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.
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largo
noun — A very slow tempo
adjective — Strong and stately
noun — A musical piece or movement in such a tempo
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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logo
noun — A visual symbol or emblem that acts as a trademark or a means of identification of a company or organization.
noun — (by extension) An audio recording for the same purpose; a jingle.
noun — A single graphic which contains one or more separate elements.
noun — An ensign, a badge of office, rank, or power.
Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.
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logogram
noun — A character or symbol that represents a word or phrase.
noun — A kind of word puzzle: a logogriph.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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magma
noun — The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.
noun — A basic algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with a single binary operation.
noun — Any soft doughy mass.
noun — The residuum after expressing the juice from fruits.
Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.
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mammogram
noun — An X-ray picture of the breasts (mammaries), used to screen for breast cancer.
Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.
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mogul
noun — A rich or powerful person; a magnate.
noun — A hump or bump on a skiing piste.
noun — A larger-sized (39 mm diameter) screw base used for large, high-power light bulbs, known as mogul (screw) base light bulbs.
noun — A machine that forms shaped candies from syrups or gels.
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raga
noun — Any of various melodic forms used in Indian classical music, or a piece of music composed in such a form.
noun — Passion, love, lust.
Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.
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ragu
noun — An Italian pasta sauce containing ground meat cooked with sautéed vegetables in tomato sauce or some other kind of liquid.
Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.
glamour is a perfect pangram — all seven letters, each used exactly once.
Hints, no spoilers
Words by first two letters
- ag×3
- al×2
- am×1
- ar×1
- au×1
- ga×4
- gl×7
- go×2
- gr×5
- gu×4
- la×1
- lo×3
- ma×2
- mo×1
- ra×2
Words by first letter and length
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Σ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a | 3 | 3 | · | 2 | · | · | 8 |
| g | 13 | 4 | 3 | 2 | · | · | 22 |
| l | 1 | 1 | · | 1 | 1 | · | 4 |
| m | · | 2 | · | · | · | 1 | 3 |
| r | 2 | · | · | · | · | · | 2 |
| Σ | 19 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 39 |
The numbers
Genius today takes 102 points of 146 available. The average answer runs 5.0 letters.
Word lengths, today vs. 18455 recorded answers
History
Today's letters, last seen
| Letter | Last in a puzzle | Last as center |
|---|---|---|
| a | Sunday, August 9, 2026 | Friday, July 3, 2026 |
| g ● | Friday, August 7, 2026 | Friday, August 7, 2026 |
| l | Sunday, August 9, 2026 | Tuesday, June 2, 2026 |
| m | Saturday, August 8, 2026 | Saturday, August 8, 2026 |
| o | Sunday, August 9, 2026 | Tuesday, August 4, 2026 |
| r | Thursday, August 6, 2026 | Saturday, August 1, 2026 |
| u | Saturday, August 8, 2026 | Friday, July 17, 2026 |
Most common answers, all recorded puzzles
- noon 43
- naan 32
- nana 32
- onion 31
- toot 29
- loll 29
- mama 26
- mamma 26
- nene 25
- acacia 24
- acai 24
- olio 24
- cocoon 23
- loon 23
- neon 23
- none 23
- aria 22
- imam 22
- maim 22
- cancan 22
- canna 22
- bill 22
- mini 22
- minim 22
- lilt 21
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.
- agama
- aggro
- agma
- algor
- algum
- almug
- argal
- argala
- argol
- arugola
- augural
- galago
- gama
- gaol
- gaum
- gaur
- gloam
- glogg
- gogo
- gooral
- goral
- graal
- grama
- grogram
- grugru
- grum
- gular
- gumma
- mugg
- muggar
- muggur
- ogam
- ruga
- rugal
- rugola