Tuesday, October 20, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 79

Number of Answers: 18

Points Needed for Genius: 55

Genius requires between 8 and 16 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 86% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 62% of the remaining points to reach genius.

Other days with this pangram:

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 79 was in the 3rd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on September 22, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 18 possible answers rank it in the 0th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on September 22, 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 October 18, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.2.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



Haven't I seen these letters before?

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 251
  • loll 229
  • toot 224
  • nana 214
  • naan 214
  • tilt 164
  • till 164
  • nene 164
  • lilt 164
  • tint 163
  • mamma 163
  • mama 163
  • onion 156
  • acai 156
  • acacia 156
  • toon 152
  • onto 152
  • anal 142
  • anon 141
  • olio 140
  • tact 132
  • baba 132
  • papa 131
  • mitt 131
  • dodo 131
  • lulu 127
  • lull 127
  • booboo 126
  • boob 126
  • poop 124
  • loon 124
  • cocci 123
  • calla 122
  • call 122
  • tattoo 120
  • tartar 120
  • tart 120
  • ratatat 120
  • moon 120
  • mono 120
  • cancan 119
  • attar 119
  • natant 118
  • tutu 117
  • aria 116
  • momma 115
  • meme 115
  • ammo 115
  • ally 115
  • allay 115


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 124,820 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 11,167 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*:

  • chinch
  • chink
  • hmmm
  • huck
  • huic
  • humic
  • hunh
  • numchuck
  • unchic

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

chic

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chichi

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chick

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chin

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chuck

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chum

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chunk

noun
  1. A part of something that has been separated.
  2. A representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular.
  3. A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a bundle or cluster.
  4. A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
  5. A segment of a comedian's performance
verb
  1. To break into large pieces or chunks.
  2. To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.
  3. To throw.

cinch

No Definition Found.

hick

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hunch

noun
  1. A hump; a protuberance.
  2. A stooped or curled posture; a slouch.
  3. A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen.
  4. A hunk; a lump; a thick piece.
  5. A push or thrust, as with the elbow.
verb
  1. To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders.
  2. To raise (one's shoulders) (while lowering one's head or bending the top of one's body forward); to curve (one's body) forward (sometimes followed by up).
  3. To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders.
  4. To thrust a hump or protuberance out of (something); to crook, as the back.
  5. To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust against (someone).
  6. To have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess.

hunk

No Definition Found.

inch

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kimchi

noun
  1. A Korean dish made of vegetables, such as cabbage or radishes, that are salted, seasoned, and stored in sealed containers to undergo lactic acid fermentation.
  2. A Korean person.

much

No Definition Found.

munch

noun
  1. A location or restaurant where good eating can be expected.
  2. An act of eating.
  3. Food.
  4. (BDSM) A casual meeting for those interested in BDSM, usually at a restaurant. See Munch (BDSM).
verb
  1. To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, and with the mouth closed — often used with on.
  2. To eat vigorously or with excitement.

munchkin

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nunchuk

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nunchuck

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