Saturday, April 04, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 161

Number of Answers: 40

Points Needed for Genius: 113

Genius requires between 16 and 36 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 86% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, 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 161 was in the 44th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on April 03, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 40 possible answers rank it in the 51st percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on April 03, 2026.
The highest number of answers was 81 on June 08, 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 April 03, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.0.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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Haven't I seen these words before?

The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 236
  • loll 217
  • toot 213
  • nana 195
  • naan 195
  • nene 155
  • tilt 153
  • till 153
  • lilt 153
  • mamma 149
  • mama 149
  • tint 148
  • toon 143
  • onto 143
  • onion 143
  • acai 140
  • acacia 140
  • anon 132
  • anal 131
  • olio 128
  • papa 124
  • lulu 124
  • lull 124
  • baba 124
  • dodo 123
  • tact 122
  • poop 119
  • booboo 119
  • boob 119
  • moon 118
  • mono 118
  • mitt 117
  • cocci 117
  • calla 115
  • call 115
  • tartar 114
  • tart 114
  • ratatat 114
  • loon 114
  • tattoo 113
  • attar 113
  • tutu 112
  • momma 111
  • ammo 111
  • ally 111
  • allay 111
  • tatty 109
  • meme 109
  • roar 108
  • aria 108


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 115,911 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,954 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*:

  • aglu
  • agly
  • argal
  • argala
  • argyll
  • augural
  • ballyrag
  • blag
  • bulgar
  • bullyrag
  • gabba
  • gaby
  • gally
  • garbagy
  • gaur
  • gayal
  • glary
  • graal
  • graylag
  • grayly
  • grrrl
  • grugru
  • gular
  • gullably
  • gurgly
  • gurry
  • gyral
  • gyrally
  • ragg
  • ragga
  • raggy
  • ruga
  • rugal
  • yuga

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

agar

noun
  1. A gelatinous material obtained from red algae, especially Gracilaria species, used as a bacterial culture medium, in electrophoresis and as a food additive.
  2. A culture medium based on this material.

alga

noun
  1. 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.

algal

noun
  1. An alga.
adjective
  1. Pertaining to, or like, algae

arguably

adverb
  1. As can be supported or proven by sound logical deduction, evidence, and precedent.

arugula

noun
  1. One of three yellowish-flowered Mediterranean herbs of the mustard family with flavoured leaves, often eaten in salads. Has a distinct, peppery flavor:

augur

noun
  1. A diviner who foretells events by the behaviour of birds or other animals, or by signs derived from celestial phenomena, or unusual occurrences.
  2. An official who interpreted omens before the start of public events.
verb
  1. To foretell events; to exhibit signs of future events.
  2. To anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue.

augury

noun
  1. A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.
  2. (by extension) An omen or prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy.
  3. An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.

baggy

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Of clothing, very loose-fitting, so as to hang away from the body.
  2. Of or relating to a British music genre of the 1980s and 1990s, influenced by Madchester and psychedelia and associated with baggy clothing.
  3. Of writing, etc.: overwrought; flabby; having too much padding.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A small plastic bag, as for sandwiches.

brag

noun
  1. A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification.
  2. The thing which is boasted of.
  3. (by ellipsis) The card game three card brag.
verb
  1. To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, is able to do, or has done; often as an attempt to popularize oneself.
  2. To boast of.
adjective
  1. Excellent; first-rate.
  2. Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
adverb
  1. Proudly; boastfully

braggy

No Definition Found.

buggy

noun
  1. A small horse-drawn cart.
  2. A small motor vehicle, such as a dune buggy.
  3. A hearse.
  4. A pushchair; a stroller.
  5. A shopping cart or trolley.
adjective
  1. Infested with insects
  2. Containing programming errors
  3. Resembling an insect
  4. Crazy; bughouse

bulgur

noun
  1. Wheat grains that have been steamed, dried and crushed; a staple of Middle Eastern cooking.

bulgy

adjective
  1. Having one or more bulges; bulging

burg

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A city or town.
  2. A fortified town in medieval Europe.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Burger

burglar

noun
  1. A person who breaks in to premises with the intent of committing theft
verb
  1. To commit burglary; to burgle.

burglary

noun
  1. The crime of unlawfully breaking into a vehicle, house, store, or other enclosure with the intent to steal.

gabby

adjective
  1. Inclined to talk too much, especially about trivia.

gaga

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Mentally senile.
  2. Crazy.
  3. Infatuated.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A variant of dodgeball played inside a fenced area, usually a hexagon or octagon.

gala

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Pomp, show, or festivity.
  2. A showy and festive party.
adjective
  1. Celebratory; festive.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A member of an androgynous class of priests of the Sumerian goddess Inanna.

gall

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.
  2. The gall bladder.
  3. Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.
  4. A feeling of exasperation.
  5. Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.
  6. A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as with a blister.
  7. A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.
  8. A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
verb
  1. To bother or trouble.
  2. To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.
  3. To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.
  4. To exasperate.
  5. To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
  6. To scoff; to jeer.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. 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.
  2. A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.
verb
  1. To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.

garb

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
  2. A type of dress or clothing.
  3. A guise, external appearance.
verb
  1. To dress in garb.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A wheat sheaf.
  2. A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.

gayly

No Definition Found.

glug

noun
  1. The sound made when a significant amount of liquid is poured suddenly out of something, such as a jug or bottle.
  2. The amount of liquid issued when the "glug" sound is heard.
verb
  1. To flow in noisy bursts.
  2. To quickly swallow liquid.

grab

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A sudden snatch at something.
  2. An acquisition by violent or unjust means.
  3. A mechanical device that grabs or clutches.
  4. A sound bite.
  5. That which is seized.
  6. A simple card game.
verb
  1. To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.
  2. To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something).
  3. To restrain someone; to arrest.
  4. To grip the attention of; to enthrall or interest.
  5. To quickly collect or retrieve.
  6. To consume something quickly.
  7. To take the opportunity of.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar coast.

grabby

adjective
  1. Tending to grab, especially rudely or greedily.

gray

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.
  2. An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
  3. An extraterrestrial humanoid with grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.
  4. A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.
verb
  1. To become gray.
  2. To cause to become gray.
  3. To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)
  4. To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.
adjective
  1. Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.
  2. Dreary, gloomy.
  3. Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
  4. Relating to older people.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of absorbed dose of radiation (radiation absorbed by a patient); one joule of energy absorbed per kilogram of the patient's mass. Symbol: Gy

grub

noun
  1. An immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva.
  2. Food.
  3. A short, thick man; a dwarf.
  4. A dirty person.
  5. A despicable person; a lowlife.
verb
  1. To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.
  2. To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up.
  3. To supply with food.
  4. To eat.

grubby

noun
  1. Any species of Cottus; a sculpin.
adjective
  1. Dirty, unwashed, unclean.
  2. Having grubs in it.

guar

noun
  1. An annual legume (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba), used as a food for cattle and humans.

gulag

noun
  1. A prison camp.
  2. The system of all Soviet prison and/or labor camps in use during the Stalinist period.
verb
  1. To force into this prison or a similar system.

gull

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae.
  2. Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A cheating trick; a fraud.
  2. One easily cheated; a dupe.
  3. (Oxford University slang) A swindler or trickster.
verb
  1. To deceive or cheat.
  2. To mislead.
  3. To trick and defraud.

gully

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside.
  2. A small valley.
  3. A drop kerb.
  4. A road drain.
  5. A fielding position on the off side about 30 degrees behind square, between the slips and point; a fielder in such a position
  6. A grooved iron rail or tram plate.
verb
  1. To flow noisily.
  2. To wear away into a gully or gullies.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (northern UK) A large knife.

guru

noun
  1. A Hindu or Sikh spiritual teacher.
  2. (sometimes humorous) An influential advisor or mentor.

lallygag

noun
  1. Horseplay, fooling around.
  2. A layabout, one who lallygags.
verb
  1. (See lollygag.) To dawdle; to be lazy or idle; to avoid necessary work or effort.
  2. To pet, kiss, or otherwise demonstrate overt affection, generally in public.

raga

noun
  1. Any of various melodic forms used in Indian classical music, or a piece of music composed in such a form.
  2. Passion, love, lust.

ragbag

noun
  1. A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.

rugby

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (usually uncountable) A form of football in which players can hold or kick an ovoid ball. The ball cannot be handled forwards and points are scored by touching the ball to the ground in the area past their opponent’s territory or kicking the ball between goalposts and over a crossbar.
  2. A loose fitting shirt with a collar, as worn by rugby players.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Rubber cement, contact cement.

ugly

noun
  1. Ugliness.
  2. An ugly person or thing.
  3. A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet.
verb
  1. To make ugly (sometimes with up).
adjective
  1. Displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing.
  2. Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.
  3. Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.
  4. Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.
  5. Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.

laggy

adjective
  1. Having a delayed response to a change in the factors influencing it.
  2. Tending to lag, or respond slowly because of network latency.

ragu

noun
  1. An Italian pasta sauce containing ground meat cooked with sautéed vegetables in tomato sauce or some other kind of liquid.