Wednesday, December 11, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 89

Number of Answers: 19

Points Needed for Genius: 62

Genius requires between 9 and 17 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 85% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 63% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 89 was in the 7th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on November 26, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 19 possible answers rank it in the 1st percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on August 9, 2024.
The highest number of answers was 81 on June 8, 2019.
The lowest number of answers was 16 on March 27, 2023.

It takes a 7-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on December 9, 2024.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.3.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



Haven't I seen these letters before?

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Haven't I seen these words before?

The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 188
  • loll 180
  • toot 172
  • naan 165
  • nana 165
  • lilt 130
  • till 130
  • tilt 130
  • tint 126
  • mama 121
  • mamma 121
  • nene 119
  • acacia 115
  • acai 115
  • onto 113
  • toon 113
  • anal 110
  • onion 108
  • anon 106
  • boob 106
  • booboo 106
  • olio 103
  • papa 102
  • baba 101
  • lull 101
  • lulu 101
  • dodo 100
  • mitt 100
  • poop 100
  • tact 99
  • allay 97
  • ally 97
  • call 97
  • calla 97
  • ratatat 96
  • tart 96
  • tartar 96
  • attar 95
  • cocci 95
  • tatty 95
  • tutu 95
  • tattoo 94
  • ammo 93
  • epee 93
  • momma 93
  • mono 93
  • moon 93
  • peep 93
  • loon 91
  • roar 91


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 94,301 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,359 unique words.
Below are the distributions of the lengths of these words.



Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

You may be wondering why these words aren't here*:

  • bobby
  • boody
  • boyo
  • cobby
  • cooey
  • cooeyed
  • coyed
  • debye
  • deedy
  • dobby
  • doby
  • doody
  • doty
  • toby
  • tody
  • totty
  • toyo
  • tyee
  • yett
  • yobbo
  • yobby

*Because the New York Times considers them obscure or offensive.

body

noun
  1. Physical frame.
  2. Main section.
  3. Coherent group.
  4. Material entity.
  5. The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
  6. A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
verb
  1. To give body or shape to something.
  2. To construct the bodywork of a car.
  3. To embody.
  4. To murder someone.
  5. (by extension) To utterly defeat someone.
  6. To hard counter a particular character build or play style. Frequently used in the passive voice form, get bodied by.

booby

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A stupid person.
  2. Any of various large tropical seabirds from the genera Sula and Papasula in the gannet family Sulidae, traditionally considered to be stupid.
  3. In the game of croquet, a ball that has not passed through the first wicket.
verb
  1. To behave stupidly; to act like a booby.
  2. To install a booby trap on or at (something); to attack (someone) with a booby trap.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A woman’s breast.

booty

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A form of prize which, when a ship was captured at sea, could be distributed at once.
  2. Plunder taken from an enemy in time of war, or seized by piracy.
  3. Something that has been stolen or illegally obtained from elsewhere.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The buttocks.
  2. (not countable) A person considered as a sexual partner or sex object.
  3. Sexual intercourse.
  4. The vulva and vagina.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A soft, woolen shoe, usually knitted, for a baby or small pet.
  2. A thick sock worn under a wetsuit.
  3. An overshoe or sock worn to cover dirty shoes or feet.

boycott

noun
  1. The act of boycotting.
verb
  1. To abstain, either as an individual or a group, from using, buying, or dealing with someone or some organization as an expression of protest.

boycotted

verb
  1. To abstain, either as an individual or a group, from using, buying, or dealing with someone or some organization as an expression of protest.

byte

noun
  1. A short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word.
  2. (most commonly) A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits, which can represent any of 256 distinct values.

coyote

noun
  1. Canis latrans, a species of canine native to North America.
  2. A smuggler of undocumented immigrants across the land border from Latin America into the United States of America.
verb
  1. To prospect for gold by manually digging holes into overlying earth, as into a hillside.

decoy

noun
  1. A person or object meant to lure somebody into danger.
  2. A real or fake animal used by hunters to lure game.
verb
  1. To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap.
  2. To act as, or use, a decoy.

decoyed

verb
  1. To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap.
  2. To act as, or use, a decoy.

dotty

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Mildly insane or eccentric; often, senile.
  2. Having an unsteady gait.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A shotgun.
adjective
  1. Having many dots.

dyed

verb
  1. To colour with dye, or as if with dye.
adjective
  1. Coloured or tinted with dye, or as though therewith.

eddy

noun
  1. A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current.
  2. A circular current; a whirlpool.
verb
  1. To form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle.

eyed

verb
  1. To observe carefully or appraisingly.
  2. To appear; to look.
adjective
  1. Having eyes.
  2. Having eye-like spots.
  3. (in compounds) Having the specified kind or number of eyes.

obey

verb
  1. To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of.
  2. To do as one is told.
  3. To be obedient, compliant (to a given law, restriction etc.).

obeyed

verb
  1. To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of.
  2. To do as one is told.
  3. To be obedient, compliant (to a given law, restriction etc.).

oocyte

noun
  1. A cell that develops into an egg or ovum; a female gametocyte.

teddy

noun
  1. By extension, any stuffed toy.
  2. A type of all-in-one piece of women's underwear.
noun
  1. A plush toy in the shape of a bear.
  2. A lovable, endearing, large, strong, hairy, or sweet man

toddy

noun
  1. A drink made from alcoholic liquor mixed with sugar, spice and hot water.
noun
  1. The sweet sap from any of several tropical trees fermented to make an alcoholic drink.

toyed

verb
  1. To play (with) in an idle or desultory way.
  2. To ponder or consider.
  3. To stimulate with a sex toy.