Friday, June 05, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 157

Number of Answers: 27

Points Needed for Genius: 110

Genius requires between 14 and 23 words. You need at least an 8-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 77% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 67% of the remaining points to reach genius.

The button below will reveal a chart with the number of words by each letter. Red bars indicate that there is a pangram(s) starting with that letter.


How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 157 was in the 42nd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on June 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 27 possible answers rank it in the 16th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on June 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 an 8-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on May 24, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 6.3.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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Hover over a letter to see its first and most recent appearance in the Bee!



Haven't I seen these words before?

The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 242
  • loll 223
  • toot 216
  • nana 201
  • naan 201
  • nene 158
  • tilt 156
  • till 156
  • lilt 156
  • mamma 154
  • mama 154
  • tint 151
  • onion 148
  • toon 146
  • onto 146
  • acai 144
  • acacia 144
  • anon 136
  • olio 134
  • anal 134
  • papa 128
  • tact 126
  • baba 126
  • lulu 125
  • lull 125
  • dodo 124
  • mitt 121
  • poop 120
  • loon 120
  • booboo 120
  • boob 120
  • cocci 119
  • moon 118
  • mono 118
  • calla 118
  • call 118
  • tattoo 117
  • tartar 117
  • tart 117
  • ratatat 117
  • attar 116
  • tutu 114
  • ally 113
  • allay 113
  • tatty 111
  • momma 111
  • aria 111
  • ammo 111
  • cancan 110
  • roar 109


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 118,728 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 11,045 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*:

  • coff
  • coffing
  • coifing
  • coof
  • corf
  • ficin
  • fico
  • figging
  • finning
  • fino
  • firn
  • foin
  • foining
  • frig
  • frigging
  • frigorific
  • frogging
  • gonif
  • goniff
  • gonof
  • griff
  • niff
  • niffing

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

coffin

noun
  1. A rectangular closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.
  2. The eighth Lenormand card.
  3. A basket.
  4. A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
  5. A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
  6. The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
  7. A storage container for nuclear waste.
verb
  1. To place in a coffin.

coffining

verb
  1. To place in a coffin.

coif

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A hairdo.
  2. A hood; a close-fitting cap covering much of the head, widespread until the 18th century; after that worn only by small children and country women.
  3. An item of chain mail headgear.
  4. An official headdress, such as that worn by certain judges in England.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To style or arrange hair.

coiffing

verb
  1. To style or arrange hair.

confining

verb
  1. To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
  2. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on or with.
adjective
  1. Limiting; restrictive

fifing

verb
  1. To play this instrument.

fining

verb
  1. To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
  2. To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
  3. To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
  4. To change by fine gradations.
  5. To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
  6. To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off).
verb
  1. To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
  2. To pay a fine.
verb
  1. To finish; to cease.
  2. To cause to cease; to stop.

firing

verb
  1. To set (something, often a building) on fire.
  2. To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
  3. To drive away by setting a fire.
  4. To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct or poor performance).
  5. To shoot (a gun or analogous device).
  6. To shoot a gun, cannon, or similar weapon.
  7. To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
  8. To cause an action potential in a cell.
  9. To forcibly direct (something).
  10. (computer sciences, software engineering) To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
  11. To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
  12. To animate; to give life or spirit to.
  13. To feed or serve the fire of.
  14. To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
  15. To cauterize.
  16. To catch fire; to be kindled.
  17. To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
noun
  1. The process of applying heat or fire, especially to clay etc to produce pottery.
  2. The fuel for a fire.
  3. The act of adding fuel to a fire.
  4. The discharge of a gun or other weapon.
  5. The dismissal of someone from a job.
  6. Cauterization.

foci

noun
  1. A point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge.
  2. A point of a conic at which rays reflected from a curve or surface converge.
  3. The fact of the convergence of light on the photographic medium.
  4. The quality of the convergence of light on the photographic medium.
  5. Concentration of attention.
  6. The exact point of where an earthquake occurs, in three dimensions (underneath the epicentre).
  7. The indicator of the currently active element in a user interface.
  8. The most important word or phrase in a sentence or passage, or the one that imparts information.
  9. An object used in casting a magic spell.

fogging

verb
  1. To become covered with or as if with fog.
  2. To become obscured in condensation or water.
  3. To become dim or obscure.
  4. To make dim or obscure.
  5. To cover with or as if with fog.
  6. To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.
  7. To obscure in condensation or water.
  8. To make confusing or obscure.
  9. To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.
verb
  1. To pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from.
  2. To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.
noun
  1. The dispersal of insecticide into a forest canopy so as to collect organisms.

forcing

verb
  1. To violate (a woman); to rape.
  2. To exert oneself, to do one's utmost.
  3. To compel (someone or something) to do something.
  4. To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
  5. To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
  6. To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
  7. To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
  8. To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
  9. To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.
  10. (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
  11. To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
  12. To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
  13. To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
verb
  1. To stuff; to lard; to farce.
noun
  1. The art of raising plants at an earlier season than is normal, especially by using a hotbed
  2. An extension in the development time of an underexposed negative in order to bring out detail
  3. A technique used to prove the consistency of certain axioms in set theory. See forcing (mathematics).
  4. The net flux of energy in or out of a system; the net change in an energy balance.
adjective
  1. Pertaining to a bid which requires partner to continue bidding rather than pass.

forging

verb
  1. To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
  2. To form or create with concerted effort.
  3. To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
  4. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
verb
  1. (often as forge ahead) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily; to proceed towards a goal in the face of resistance or difficulty.
  2. (sometimes as forge ahead) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.
noun
  1. A component that is forged (shaped by heating and hammering).

forgo

verb
  1. To let pass, to leave alone, to let go.
  2. To do without, to abandon, to renounce.
  3. To refrain from, to abstain from, to pass up, to withgo.

forgoing

verb
  1. To let pass, to leave alone, to let go.
  2. To do without, to abandon, to renounce.
  3. To refrain from, to abstain from, to pass up, to withgo.

fringing

verb
  1. To decorate with fringe.
  2. To serve as a fringe.
noun
  1. A fringe or border.
  2. The appearance of false colours in an image as the result of poor registration of component monochrome images.
  3. Any anomalous electric or magnetic effect at the edges of a region.
adjective
  1. That fringes.

frog

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A small tailless amphibian of the order Anura that typically hops.
  2. The part of a violin bow (or that of other similar string instruments such as the viola, cello and contrabass) located at the end held by the player, to which the horsehair is attached.
  3. Road. Shorter, more common form of frog and toad.
  4. The depression in the upper face of a pressed or handmade clay brick.
  5. An organ on the bottom of a horse’s hoof that assists in the circulation of blood.
  6. The part of a railway switch or turnout where the running-rails cross (from the resemblance to the frog in a horse’s hoof).
verb
  1. To hunt or trap frogs.
  2. To use a pronged plater to transfer (cells) to another plate.
  3. To spatchcock (a chicken).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A French person.
  2. A French-speaking person from Quebec.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A leather or fabric loop used to attach a sword or bayonet, or its scabbard, to a waist or shoulder belt.
  2. An ornate fastener for clothing consisting of an oblong button (covered with netted thread), toggle, or knot, that fits through a loop.
verb
  1. To ornament or fasten a coat, etc. with frogs.

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To unravel part of (a knitted garment) while knitting it in order to correct a mistake.

goof

noun
  1. A mistake or error.
  2. A foolish and/or silly person; a goofball.
  3. A child molester.
verb
  1. To make a mistake.
  2. To engage in mischief.

goofing

verb
  1. To make a mistake.
  2. To engage in mischief.

griffin

noun
  1. A mythical beast having the body of a lion and the wings and head of an eagle.
  2. A large vulture (Gyps fulvus) found in the mountainous parts of Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor, supposed to be the "eagle" of the Bible.
  3. An English variety of apple.
  4. A person who has just arrived from Europe.
  5. A cadet newly arrived in British India: half English, half Indian.
  6. A watchful guardian, especially a duenna in charge of a young woman.

griffon

noun
  1. A mythical beast having the body of a lion and the wings and head of an eagle.
  2. A large vulture (Gyps fulvus) found in the mountainous parts of Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor, supposed to be the "eagle" of the Bible.
  3. An English variety of apple.
  4. A person who has just arrived from Europe.
  5. A cadet newly arrived in British India: half English, half Indian.
  6. A watchful guardian, especially a duenna in charge of a young woman.
noun
  1. A breed of dog usually called the Brussels Griffon, reminiscent of the legendary creature.
  2. A griffon vulture.

info

noun
  1. Information.

infringing

verb
  1. Break or violate a treaty, a law, a right etc.
  2. Break in or encroach on something.

offing

verb
  1. To kill.
  2. To switch off.
noun
  1. The area of the sea in which a ship can be seen in the distance from land, excluding the parts nearest the shore, and beyond the anchoring ground.
  2. The distance that a ship at sea keeps away from land, often because of navigational dangers, fog and other hazards; a position at a distance from shore.
  3. The foreseeable future. Chiefly in the phrase in the offing.

riff

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A repeated instrumental melody line in a song.
  2. A clever or witty remark.
  3. A variation on something.
  4. A spoof.
verb
  1. To improvise in the performance or practice of an art, especially by expanding on or making novel use of traditional themes.
  2. To riffle.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The belly; the bowels.

riffing

verb
  1. To lay off from work due to a reduction in force.
verb
  1. To improvise in the performance or practice of an art, especially by expanding on or making novel use of traditional themes.
  2. To riffle.

roof

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The external covering at the top of a building.
  2. The top external level of a building.
  3. The upper part of a cavity.
  4. The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
  5. (rockclimbing) An overhanging rock wall

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To cover or furnish with a roof.
  2. To traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs.
  3. To put into prison, to bird.
  4. To shelter as if under a roof.

roofing

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Material used on the outside of a roof, such as shingles.
  2. A way of travel which consists in clambering over the roofs of skyscrapers.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To cover or furnish with a roof.
  2. To traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs.
  3. To put into prison, to bird.
  4. To shelter as if under a roof.