Tuesday, February 10, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 126

Number of Answers: 26

Points Needed for Genius: 88

Genius requires between 13 and 23 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 80% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 65% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 126 was in the 26th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on January 30, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 26 possible answers rank it in the 14th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on January 30, 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 February 09, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.4.
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 229
  • loll 213
  • toot 210
  • nana 190
  • naan 190
  • tilt 152
  • till 152
  • lilt 152
  • nene 150
  • tint 145
  • mamma 142
  • mama 142
  • onion 138
  • toon 137
  • onto 137
  • acai 137
  • acacia 137
  • anal 130
  • anon 129
  • olio 124
  • dodo 123
  • tact 122
  • papa 122
  • baba 120
  • poop 118
  • lulu 118
  • lull 118
  • booboo 118
  • boob 118
  • cocci 114
  • moon 113
  • mono 113
  • mitt 113
  • calla 113
  • call 113
  • tutu 112
  • tattoo 112
  • tartar 112
  • tart 112
  • ratatat 112
  • loon 111
  • attar 111
  • ally 110
  • allay 110
  • tatty 109
  • momma 107
  • ammo 107
  • roar 105
  • peep 105
  • meme 105


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 113,413 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,909 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*:

  • bhoot
  • birthroot
  • brith
  • hornito
  • inhibin
  • ortho
  • thio
  • thionin
  • thir
  • thoro
  • thoron
  • thro
  • toroth

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

birth

noun
  1. The process of childbearing; the beginning of life.
  2. An instance of childbirth.
  3. A beginning or start; a point of origin.
  4. The circumstances of one's background, ancestry, or upbringing.
  5. That which is born.
verb
  1. To bear or give birth to (a child).
  2. To produce, give rise to.
adjective
  1. A familial relationship established by childbirth.

boho

noun
  1. A bohemian.
  2. A style of female fashion drawing on various bohemian and hippie influences, popular in the mid-first decade of the 21st century.
adjective
  1. Bohemian.

boohoo

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To cry, weep.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The sailfish.

booth

noun
  1. A small stall for the display and sale of goods.
  2. An enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person.
  3. An enclosed table with seats, as in a diner or café.
  4. An enclosure for keeping animals.

both

pronoun
  1. Each of the two, or of the two kinds.
conjunction
  1. Including both of (used with and).
  2. Including all of (used with and).

broth

noun
  1. Water in which food (meat or vegetable etc) has been boiled.
  2. A soup made from broth and other ingredients such as vegetables, herbs or diced meat.

hint

noun
  1. A clue.
  2. A tacit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
  3. A small, barely detectable amount of.
  4. Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering. Also known as hinting.
  5. An opportunity; occasion; fit time.
verb
  1. To suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
  2. To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.
  3. To develop and add hints to a font.

hobbit

noun
  1. A Welsh unit of weight, equal to four Welsh pecks, or 168 pounds
  2. An old unit of volume (2 1/2 bushels, the volume of 168 pounds of wheat).

hobnob

noun
  1. A toast made while touching glasses together.
  2. A drinking together.
  3. An informal chat.
verb
  1. To drink together.
  2. To associate with in a friendly manner, often with those of a higher class or status.
  3. To have or have not; to give or take.
  4. To toast one another by touching glasses.
adjective
  1. On friendly terms; in friendly association.
adverb
  1. At random; at a venture; hit and miss.

hobo

noun
  1. A wandering homeless person, especially one illegally travelling by rail or a penniless, unemployed bum.
  2. Any migratory laborer, whether homeless or not.
  3. A kind of large handbag.
verb
  1. (perhaps pejorative) To be a hobo, tramp, bum etc.

honor

noun
  1. Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright or successful)
  2. The state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence of character; the perception of such a state; favourable reputation; dignity
  3. A token of praise or respect; something that represents praiseworthiness or respect, such as a prize or award given by the state to a citizen
  4. A privilege
  5. (in the plural) the privilege of going first
  6. A cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament.
  7. (feudal law) a seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended
  8. The center point of the upper half of an armorial escutcheon (compare honour point)
  9. In bridge, an ace, king, queen, jack, or ten especially of the trump suit. In some other games, an ace, king, queen or jack.
  10. (in the plural) (courses for) an honours degree: a university qualification of the highest rank
verb
  1. To think of highly, to respect highly; to show respect for; to recognise the importance or spiritual value of
  2. To conform to, abide by, act in accordance with (an agreement, treaty, promise, request, or the like)
  3. To confer (bestow) an honour or privilege upon (someone)
  4. To make payment in respect of (a cheque, banker's draft, etc.)

hoot

noun
  1. A derisive cry or shout.
  2. The cry of an owl.
  3. A fun event or person. (See hootenanny)
  4. A small particle.
verb
  1. To cry out or shout in contempt.
  2. To make the cry of an owl, a hoo.
  3. To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.
  4. To sound the horn of a vehicle

horn

noun
  1. A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
  2. Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.
  3. An antler.
  4. The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
  5. An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia, the point of an anvil, or a vessel for gunpowder or liquid.
  6. Any of several musical wind instruments.
  7. An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
  8. A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
  9. A sound signaling the expiration of time.
  10. A conical device used to direct waves.
  11. Generally, any brass wind instrument.
  12. (from the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes) A telephone.
  13. (definite article) An erection of the penis.
  14. A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land.
  15. A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư.
  16. An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
verb
  1. (of an animal) To assault with the horns.
  2. To furnish with horns.
  3. To cuckold.

horror

noun
  1. An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
  2. Something horrible; that which excites horror.
  3. Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
  4. A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
  5. An individual work in this genre.
  6. A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.
  7. An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
  8. (plural) Delirium tremens.

inhibit

verb
  1. To hold in or hold back; to keep in check; restrain.
  2. To recuse.

inhibition

noun
  1. The act of inhibiting.
  2. A personal feeling of fear or embarrassment that stops one behaving naturally.
  3. The process of stopping or retarding a reaction.
  4. A writ from a higher court to an inferior judge to stay proceedings.
  5. A recusal.

inhibitor

noun
  1. One who or that which inhibits.
  2. Any substance capable of stopping or slowing a specific chemical reaction.
  3. Any substance capable of stopping or slowing a specific biological process

ninth

noun
  1. The person or thing in the ninth position.
  2. One of nine equal parts of a whole.
  3. The compound interval between any tone and the tone represented on the ninth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and two of the octave above; the octave of the second, consisting of 13 or 14 semitones (called minor and major ninth).
verb
  1. To lose a ninth
  2. To divide by nine
adjective
  1. The ordinal form of the number nine.

north

noun
  1. One of the four major compass points, specifically 0°, directed toward the North Pole, and conventionally upwards on a map, abbreviated as N.
  2. The up or positive direction.
  3. The positive or north pole of a magnet, which seeks the magnetic pole near Earth's geographic North Pole (which, for its magnetic properties, is a south pole).
verb
  1. To turn or move toward the north.
adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to the north; northern.
  2. Toward the north; northward.
  3. Of wind, from the north.
  4. Pertaining to the part of a corridor used by northbound traffic.
  5. More or greater than.
adverb
  1. Toward the north; northward; northerly.

rhino

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A rhinoceros.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Money

thin

noun
  1. A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.
  2. Any food produced or served in thin slices.
verb
  1. To make thin or thinner.
  2. To become thin or thinner.
  3. To dilute.
  4. To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
adjective
  1. Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
  2. Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
  3. Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
  4. Of low viscosity or low specific gravity.
  5. Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
  6. Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
  7. Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
  8. Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
adverb
  1. Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.

thorn

noun
  1. A sharp protective spine of a plant.
  2. Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn.
  3. That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.
  4. A letter of Latin script (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed from the futhark; today used only in Icelandic to represent the voiceless dental fricative, but originally used in several early Germanic scripts, including Old English where it represented the dental fricatives that are today written th (Old English did not have phonemic voicing distinctions for fricatives).
verb
  1. To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn

throb

noun
  1. A beating, vibration or palpitation.
verb
  1. To pound or beat rapidly or violently.
  2. To vibrate or pulsate with a steady rhythm.
  3. (of a body part) To pulse (often painfully) in time with the circulation of blood.

tinhorn

noun
  1. A contemptible or pretentious person, especially one who gambles for low stakes.
adjective
  1. Cheap, inferior; pretentious.

tooth

noun
  1. A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for eating.
  2. A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.
  3. A projection on the edge of a gear that meshes with similar projections on adjacent gears, or on the circumference of a cog that engages with a chain.
  4. A projection or point in other parts of the body resembling the tooth of a vertebrate animal.
  5. A pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.
  6. The rough surface of some kinds of cel or other films that allows better adhesion of artwork.
  7. Liking, fondness (compare toothsome).
  8. An irreducible component of a comb that intersects the handle in exactly one point, that point being distinct from the unique point of intersection for any other tooth of the comb.
verb
  1. To provide or furnish with teeth.
  2. To indent; to jag.
  3. To lock into each other, like gear wheels.

troth

noun
  1. An oath, pledge, or promise.
  2. Truth; something true.
verb
  1. To pledge to marry somebody.