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NYT Spelling Bee answers & analysis

ADIOTXN

Sunday, September 13, 2026

Edited by Sam Ezersky

Words
40
Points
222
Genius
155
Pangrams
3

Official answers

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  • addition

    noun — The act of adding anything.

    noun — Anything that is added.

    noun — The arithmetic operation of adding.

    noun — A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half.

    noun — A title annexed to a person's name to identify him or her more precisely, as in "John Doe, Esq.", "Robert Dale, Mason", "Thomas Way, of New York".

    noun — Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honour; opposed to abatement.

    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • anion

    noun — A negatively charged ion.

    Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

  • annatto

    noun — A tropical American evergreen shrub, Bixa orellana; the lipstick tree; the fruit of the tree.

    noun — The seed of this tree used as a colouring or in Latin American cooking.

    noun — An orange-red dye obtained from this seed.

    Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

  • annotation

    noun — A critical or explanatory commentary or analysis

    noun — A comment added to a text

    noun — The process of writing such comment or commentary

    noun — Metadata added to a document or program

    noun — Information relating to the genetic structure of sequences of bases

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • anoint

    verb — To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil.

    verb — To apply oil to or to pour oil upon, etc., as a sacred rite, especially for consecration.

    verb — To choose or nominate somebody for a leading or otherwise important position, especially formally or officially, or as an intended successor.

    verb — To mark somebody as an official ruler, especially a king or queen, as a part of a religious ceremony.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • anon

    noun — An anonymous person, especially an author.

    adverb — Straight away; at once.

    adverb — Soon; in a little while.

    adverb — At another time; then; again.

    adjective — Anonymous

    noun — A work with an unknown author.

    Appeared in 23 recorded puzzles.

  • anoxia

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    Appeared in 3 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 19 recorded puzzles.

  • antioxidant

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • antitoxin

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    Appeared in 3 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 19 recorded puzzles.

  • axon

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • dino

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    Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

  • dint

    noun — A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.

    verb — To dent.

    noun — Force, power; especially in by dint of.

    noun — The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.

    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • dioxin

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • donation

    noun — A voluntary gift or contribution for a specific cause.

    noun — The act of giving or bestowing; a grant.

    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • initiation

    noun — The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced

    noun — The form or ceremony by which a person is introduced into any society; mode of entrance into an organized body; especially, the rite of admission into a secret society or order.

    noun — The first step of transcription or of transduction.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • into

    preposition — To or towards the inside of.

    preposition — To or towards the region of.

    preposition — Against, especially with force or violence.

    preposition — Indicates transition into another form or substance.

    preposition — After the start of.

    preposition — Interested in or attracted to.

    Appeared in 21 recorded puzzles.

  • intonation

    noun — The rise and fall of the voice in speaking.

    noun — The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.

    noun — Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise.

    noun — Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest.

    noun — A thundering; thunder.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • naan

    noun — A type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine.

    Appeared in 36 recorded puzzles.

  • nada

    pronoun — Nothing.

    Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.

  • naiad

    noun — A female deity (nymph) associated with water, especially a spring, stream, or other fresh water.

    noun — The aquatic larva (nymph) of a dragonfly or damselfly.

    noun — Any of various aquatic plants of the genus Najas.

    Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

  • nana

    noun — (term of endearment) one's grandmother

    noun — A banana

    noun — A fool

    noun — A nanny

    Appeared in 36 recorded puzzles.

  • natant

    adjective — Floating or swimming (in water)

    adjective — In a horizontal position, as if swimming

    Appeared in 23 recorded puzzles.

  • nation

    noun — A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.

    noun — Damnation.

    adverb — Extremely, very.

    noun — A sovereign state.

    noun — An association of students based on its members' birthplace or ethnicity.

    noun — A great number; a great deal.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • noon

    noun — The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.

    verb — To relax or sleep around midday

    noun — The letter ن in the Arabic script.

    noun — Time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.

    noun — The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.

    noun — The highest point; culmination.

    Appeared in 46 recorded puzzles.

  • notation

    noun — The act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters.

    noun — A system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in an art or science or in mathematics or logic to express technical facts or quantities.

    noun — A specific note or piece of information written in such a notation.

    Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

  • notion

    noun — Mental apprehension of whatever may be known, thought, or imagined; idea, concept.

    noun — A sentiment; an opinion.

    noun — Sense; mind.

    noun — An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack.

    noun — Any small article used in sewing and haberdashery, either for attachment to garments or as a tool, such as a button, zipper, or thimble.

    noun — Inclination; intention; disposition.

    Appeared in 21 recorded puzzles.

  • onion

    noun — A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.

    noun — The bulb of such a plant.

    noun — The genus as a whole.

    noun — A ball.

    noun — A person from Bermuda or of Bermudian descent.

    Appeared in 32 recorded puzzles.

  • onto

    adjective — (of a function) Assuming each of the values in its codomain; having its range equal to its codomain.

    preposition — Upon; on top of.

    preposition — Aware of.

    preposition — Being an onto function with a codomain of (see below).

    Appeared in 25 recorded puzzles.

  • oxidant

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    Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

  • oxidation

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    Appeared in 2 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 19 recorded puzzles.

  • tannin

    noun — Tannic acid or any of its derivatives.

    Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.

  • taxation

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

  • taxon

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    Appeared in 2 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 24 recorded puzzles.

  • titan

    noun — Something or someone of very large stature, greatness, or godliness.

    Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.

  • toon

    noun — A cartoon, especially an animated television show.

    noun — A southeast Asian and Australian tree (Toona ciliata or Toona australis) of the mahogany family with fragrant dark red wood and flowers that yield a dye.

    noun — A town.

    noun — A melody.

    noun — A player's avatar or visible character in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.

    noun — The wood of this tree.

    Appeared in 25 recorded puzzles.

  • toxin

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    Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

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

Hints, no spoilers

Words by first two letters

  • ad×1
  • an×9
  • at×1
  • ax×1
  • di×3
  • do×1
  • in×3
  • na×6
  • no×3
  • on×2
  • ox×2
  • ta×4
  • ti×2
  • to×2

Words by first letter and length

4567891011Σ
a 31311111 12
d 2·1·1··· 4
i 1·····2· 3
n 413·1··· 9
o 11·1·1·· 4
t 241·1··· 8
Σ 137824231 40

The numbers

Genius today takes 155 points of 222 available. The average answer runs 6.0 letters.

Total points vs. all 441 recorded puzzles
57th percentile
Word count vs. all recorded puzzles
38th percentile

Word lengths, today vs. 19951 recorded answers

413 today34.5% all-time57 today22.8% all-time68 today20.1% all-time72 today12.0% all-time84 today6.2% all-time92 today2.6% all-time103 today1.2% all-time111 today0.3% all-time120.1% all-time130.0% all-time

History

Today's letters, last seen

LetterLast in a puzzleLast as center
a Saturday, September 12, 2026 Tuesday, September 1, 2026
d Friday, September 11, 2026 Friday, September 4, 2026
i Saturday, September 12, 2026 Saturday, September 12, 2026
n ● Thursday, September 10, 2026 Monday, August 24, 2026
o Wednesday, September 9, 2026 Monday, August 17, 2026
t Saturday, September 12, 2026 Thursday, September 3, 2026
x Sunday, August 30, 2026 first recorded time

Other days with these pangrams

Same seven letters

Most common answers, all recorded puzzles

  1. noon 46
  2. naan 36
  3. nana 36
  4. onion 32
  5. toot 32
  6. loll 30
  7. mama 28
  8. mamma 28
  9. acacia 26
  10. acai 26
  11. nene 26
  12. imam 25
  13. maim 25
  14. onto 25
  15. toon 25
  16. mini 25
  17. minim 25
  18. cocoon 24
  19. lilt 24
  20. till 24
  21. tilt 24
  22. aria 24
  23. mitt 24
  24. loon 24
  25. tint 24

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.