Wednesday, June 03, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 106

Number of Answers: 22

Points Needed for Genius: 74

Genius requires between 10 and 20 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 100% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 56% 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 106 was in the 15th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on May 27, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 22 possible answers rank it in the 4th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on May 18, 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 June 02, 2026.

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?

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 153
  • mama 153
  • 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
  • poop 120
  • mitt 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 118,645 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 11,041 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*:

  • additivity
  • adit
  • adyta
  • atap
  • avadavat
  • ayaya
  • dada
  • davit
  • davy
  • dita
  • padi
  • pappi
  • paty
  • pavid
  • pipa
  • pitaya
  • pitta
  • vita
  • vitta
  • viva
  • vivat

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

adapt

verb
  1. To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit
  2. To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust
  3. To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character
  4. To make oneself comfortable to a new thing.
adjective
  1. Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.

adaptivity

No Definition Found.

avid

adjective
  1. Enthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest in something or desire to do something

avidity

noun
  1. Greediness; strong appetite.
  2. Eagerness; intenseness of desire.
  3. The measure of the synergism of the strength of individual interactions between proteins.

daddy

noun
  1. (usually childish) Father.
  2. A male lover.
  3. An informal term of address for a man.
  4. A male juvenile delinquent in a reformatory who dominates the other inmates through threats and violence.
verb
  1. To father; to sire.

data

noun
  1. (plural: data) A measurement of something on a scale understood by both the recorder (a person or device) and the reader (another person or device). The scale is arbitrarily defined, such as from 1 to 10 by ones, 1 to 100 by 0.1, or simply true or false, on or off, yes, no, or maybe, etc.
  2. (plural: data) A fact known from direct observation.
  3. (plural: data) A premise from which conclusions are drawn.
  4. (plural: datums) A fixed reference point, or a coordinate system.

diva

noun
  1. Any female celebrity, usually a well known singer or actress.
  2. A person who may be considered or who considers herself (or by extension himself) much more important than others, has high expectations of others and who is extremely demanding and fussy when it comes to personal privileges.

dyad

noun
  1. A set of two elements treated as one; a pair.
  2. Any set of two different pitch classes.
  3. A pair of things standing in particular relation; dyadic relation.
  4. An element, atom, or radical having a valence or combining power of two.
  5. A secondary unit of organisation consisting of an aggregate of monads.
  6. A tensor of order two and rank one.

paddy

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Rough or unhusked rice, either before it is milled or as a crop to be harvested.
  2. A paddy field, a rice paddy; an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Low; mean; boorish; vagabond.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A fit of temper; a tantrum
  2. A white person.
  3. A labourer's assistant or workmate.
  4. A drill used in boring wells, with cutters that expand on pressure.

paid

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
  2. To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.
  3. To be profitable for.
  4. To give (something else than money).
  5. To be profitable or worth the effort.
  6. To discharge an obligation or debt.
  7. To suffer consequences.
  8. To admit that a joke, punchline, etc., was funny.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. That is not free of charge; that costs money.
  2. Rich, wealthy

papa

noun
  1. Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.
  2. A pet name for one's grandfather.
  3. A parish priest in the Greek Orthodox Church.
  4. The letter P in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

papaya

noun
  1. A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit
  2. The fruit of this tree.
  3. An orange colour, like that of papaya flesh.

pappy

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Like pap; soft; mushy.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Father
  2. Grandfather

patty

noun
  1. (US, Australia, New Zealand) A flattened portion of ground meat or a vegetarian equivalent, usually round but sometimes square in shape.
  2. A pastry with various fillings and spices baked inside a flaky shell, often tinted golden yellow with an egg yolk mixture or turmeric.

payday

noun
  1. The day of the week or month, or the specific day, on which an employee's wages or salary is paid.

pita

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A flat bread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A fiber obtained from the Agave americana and related species, used for making cordage and paper.
  2. The plant which yields the fiber.

pitapat

noun
  1. A series of quick tapping sounds
verb
  1. To make a series of quick tapping sounds; to palpitate
adverb
  1. With a quick tapping sound

tapa

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any appetizer or snack served in the evening as part of tapas.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Seasoned slices of dried or cured meat in Filipino cuisine.

tatty

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Potato

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Tattered; dilapidated, distressed, worn-out, torn

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A woven mat or screen hung at a door or window and kept wet to moisten and cool the air as it enters.

vapid

adjective
  1. Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging.
  2. Lifeless, dull, or banal.
  3. Tasteless, bland, or insipid.

vapidity

No Definition Found.

yappy

adjective
  1. Of a dog, yapping in an annoying manner.
  2. Very talkative; talking foolishly or at length.