Friday, February 13, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 272

Number of Answers: 59

Points Needed for Genius: 190

Genius requires between 27 and 50 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 79% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 66% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 272 was in the 88th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on February 04, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 59 possible answers rank it in the 90th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on February 06, 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 12, 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 230
  • loll 214
  • toot 210
  • nana 191
  • naan 191
  • tilt 152
  • till 152
  • lilt 152
  • nene 150
  • tint 145
  • mamma 142
  • mama 142
  • toon 138
  • onto 138
  • onion 138
  • acai 137
  • acacia 137
  • anon 130
  • anal 130
  • olio 124
  • dodo 123
  • tact 122
  • papa 122
  • baba 120
  • lulu 119
  • lull 119
  • poop 118
  • booboo 118
  • boob 118
  • moon 114
  • mono 114
  • mitt 114
  • cocci 114
  • calla 113
  • call 113
  • tutu 112
  • tattoo 112
  • tartar 112
  • tart 112
  • ratatat 112
  • loon 112
  • attar 111
  • ally 110
  • allay 110
  • tatty 109
  • momma 107
  • ammo 107
  • meme 106
  • roar 105
  • peep 105


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 113,540 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*:

  • dele
  • deled
  • devel
  • develed
  • doddle
  • doolee
  • duelled
  • duello
  • elevon
  • elven
  • enol
  • leno
  • leone
  • leud
  • leveed
  • levelled
  • levo
  • loden
  • looed
  • lude
  • ludo
  • lunule
  • luved
  • luvved
  • noddle
  • noddled
  • nolo
  • nonlevel
  • nonnovel
  • novelle
  • nulled
  • olde
  • ovolo
  • undeluded
  • undulled
  • unled
  • unleveled
  • unlevelled
  • voled
  • vuln
  • vulned

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

dell

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A valley, especially in the form of a natural hollow, small and deep.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A young woman; a wench.

delude

verb
  1. To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.
  2. To frustrate or disappoint.

deluded

verb
  1. To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.
  2. To frustrate or disappoint.
adjective
  1. Being affected by delusions.

delve

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To dig the ground, especially with a shovel.
  2. To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out
  3. To dig, to excavate.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A pit or den.

delved

verb
  1. To dig the ground, especially with a shovel.
  2. To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out
  3. To dig, to excavate.

devolve

verb
  1. To roll (something) down; to unroll.
  2. To be inherited by someone else; to pass down upon the next person in a succession, especially through failure or loss of an earlier holder.
  3. To delegate (a responsibility, duty, etc.) on or upon someone.
  4. To fall as a duty or responsibility on or upon someone.
  5. To degenerate; to break down.

devolved

verb
  1. To roll (something) down; to unroll.
  2. To be inherited by someone else; to pass down upon the next person in a succession, especially through failure or loss of an earlier holder.
  3. To delegate (a responsibility, duty, etc.) on or upon someone.
  4. To fall as a duty or responsibility on or upon someone.
  5. To degenerate; to break down.

dole

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Money or other goods given as charity.
  2. Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
  3. Payment by the state to the unemployed.
  4. A boundary; a landmark.
  5. A void space left in tillage.
verb
  1. To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Sorrow or grief; dolour.
  2. Dolus.

doled

verb
  1. To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.

doll

noun
  1. A toy in the form of a human.
  2. (sometimes offensive) An attractive young woman
  3. A term of endearment: darling, sweetheart.
  4. A dollar.
  5. (now possibly offensive) A good-natured, cooperative or helpful girl.
  6. The smallest or pet pig in a litter.

dolled

No Definition Found.

doodle

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A fool, a simpleton, a mindless person.
  2. A small mindless sketch, etc.
  3. (sometimes childish) Penis.
verb
  1. To draw or scribble aimlessly.
  2. To drone like a bagpipe.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any crossbreed of a poodle with a different breed of dog.

doodled

verb
  1. To draw or scribble aimlessly.
  2. To drone like a bagpipe.

duel

noun
  1. Arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor.
  2. Historically, the wager of battle (judicial combat)
  3. Any struggle between two contending persons, groups or ideas.
verb
  1. To engage in a battle.

dueled

verb
  1. To engage in a battle.

dull

verb
  1. To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
  2. To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
  3. To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
  4. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
adjective
  1. Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
  2. Boring; not exciting or interesting.
  3. Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
  4. Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.
  5. Sluggish, listless.
  6. Cloudy, overcast.
  7. Insensible; unfeeling.
  8. Heavy; lifeless; inert.
  9. (of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
  10. (of a noise or sound) Not clear, muffled.

dulled

verb
  1. To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
  2. To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
  3. To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
  4. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.

eleven

noun
  1. A cricket team of eleven players. Hence first eleven - the team of best cricket players (at a school), second eleven - the "B" team, etc.
  2. A football team of eleven players; the starting lineup.
  3. Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, imitating someone who forgets to press the shift key while typing exclamation points.
  4. A number off the charts of a hypothetical scale of one to ten.
numeral
  1. The cardinal number occurring after ten and before twelve. Represented as 11 in Arabic digits.

elude

verb
  1. To evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill
  2. To shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip
  3. To escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to

eluded

verb
  1. To evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill
  2. To shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip
  3. To escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to

evolve

verb
  1. To move in regular procession through a system.
  2. To change; transform.
  3. To come into being; develop.
  4. Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
  5. To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction).
  6. To cause something to change or transform.

evolved

verb
  1. To move in regular procession through a system.
  2. To change; transform.
  3. To come into being; develop.
  4. Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
  5. To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction).
  6. To cause something to change or transform.
adjective
  1. Having arisen through a process of evolution or iterative development.
  2. Biologically gifted

lede

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (singular) A man; person.
  2. (collective plural) Men; people, folk.
  3. (singular) A people or nation.
  4. (plural) Tenements; holdings; possessions.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (chiefly US) The introductory paragraph(s) of a newspaper or other news article.

lend

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The lumbar region; loin.
  2. (of a person or animal) The loins; flank; buttocks.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.
  2. To make a loan.
  3. To be suitable or applicable, to fit.
  4. To afford; to grant or furnish in general.
  5. To borrow.

levee

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi.
  2. The steep bank of a river.
  3. The border of an irrigated field.
  4. A pier or other landing place on a river.
verb
  1. To keep within a channel by means of levees.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest.
  2. A reception of visitors held after getting up.
  3. A formal reception, especially one given by royalty or other leaders.
verb
  1. To attend the levee or levees of.

level

noun
  1. A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
  2. A distance relative to a given reference elevation.
  3. Degree or amount.
  4. Achievement or qualification.
  5. Distance from the root node of a tree structure.
  6. One of several discrete segments of a game, generally increasing in difficulty and representing different locations in the game world.
  7. A numeric value that quantifies a character's experience and power.
  8. A floor of a multi-storey building.
  9. An area of almost perfectly flat land.
  10. A school grade or year.
verb
  1. To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
  2. To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
  3. To progress to the next level.
  4. To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
  5. To direct or impose (a penalty, fine, etc) at or upon (someone).
  6. To make the score of a game equal.
  7. To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.
  8. To adjust or adapt to a certain level.
  9. (usually with "with") To speak honestly and openly with.
adjective
  1. The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
  2. At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.
  3. Unvaried in frequency.
  4. Unvaried in volume.
  5. Calm.
  6. In the same position or rank.
  7. Straightforward; direct; clear.
  8. Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial.
  9. Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection; monotonic.
  10. Perpendicular to a gravitational force.

leveled

verb
  1. To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
  2. To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
  3. To progress to the next level.
  4. To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
  5. To direct or impose (a penalty, fine, etc) at or upon (someone).
  6. To make the score of a game equal.
  7. To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.
  8. To adjust or adapt to a certain level.
  9. (usually with "with") To speak honestly and openly with.

lode

noun
  1. A way or path; a road.
  2. A watercourse.
  3. A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure.
  4. (by extension) A rich source of supply.

loll

verb
  1. To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease.
  2. To hang extended from the mouth, like the tongue of an animal heated from exertion.
  3. To let (the tongue) hang from the mouth in this way.

lolled

verb
  1. To laugh out loud.
verb
  1. To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease.
  2. To hang extended from the mouth, like the tongue of an animal heated from exertion.
  3. To let (the tongue) hang from the mouth in this way.

lone

adjective
  1. Solitary; having no companion.
  2. Isolated or lonely; lacking companionship.
  3. Sole; being the only one of a type.
  4. Situated by itself or by oneself, with no neighbours.
  5. Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
  6. Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.

loon

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An idler, a lout.
  2. A boy, a lad.
  3. A harlot; mistress.
  4. A simpleton.
  5. A crazy or deranged person.
  6. An English soldier of an expeditionary army in Ireland.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any of various birds, of the order Gaviiformes, of North America and Europe that dive for fish and have a short tail, webbed feet and a yodeling cry.

loud

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A loud sound or part of a sound.
  2. High-quality marijuana.
adjective
  1. (of a sound) Of great intensity.
  2. (of a person, thing, event, etc.) Noisy.
  3. (of a person, event, etc.) Not subtle or reserved, brash.
  4. (of clothing, decorations, etc.) Having unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns; gaudy.
  5. (of marijuana) High-quality; premium; (by extension) having a strong or pungent odour indicating good quality

Etymology 2

adverb
  1. Loudly.

louden

verb
  1. To become louder.

loudened

verb
  1. To become louder.

love

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Strong affection.
  2. A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved.
  3. A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.
  4. A thing, activity etc which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm.
  5. Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction.
  6. Sexual activity.
  7. An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair.
  8. Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members, or by the young.
  9. Alternative letter-case form of Love.
  10. A thin silk material.
  11. A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba.
verb
  1. (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
  2. To need, thrive on.
  3. To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
  4. (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive) To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
  5. To derive delight from a fact or situation.
  6. To have sex with (perhaps from make love).

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To praise; commend.
  2. To praise as of value; prize; set a price on.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. (racquet sports) Zero, no score.

loved

verb
  1. (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
  2. To need, thrive on.
  3. To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
  4. (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive) To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
  5. To derive delight from a fact or situation.
  6. To have sex with (perhaps from make love).
verb
  1. To praise; commend.
  2. To praise as of value; prize; set a price on.
adjective
  1. Being the object of love.

lull

noun
  1. A period of rest or soothing.
  2. A period of reduced activity; a respite
  3. A period without waves or wind.
  4. An extended pause between sets of waves.
verb
  1. To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm
  2. To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate.

lulled

verb
  1. To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm
  2. To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate.

lulu

noun
  1. A remarkable person, object or idea.
  2. A very attractive or alluring person.
  3. A very bad mistake or error.
  4. A fixed allowance paid to a legislator in lieu of reimbursement for actual expenses.

lune

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A concave figure formed by the intersection of the arcs of two circles on a plane, or on a sphere the intersection between two great semicircles.
  2. Anything crescent-shaped.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. (hawking) A leash for a hawk.

needle

noun
  1. A fine, sharp implement usually for piercing such as sewing, or knitting, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections, etc.
  2. Any slender, pointed object resembling a needle, such as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
  3. A fine measurement indicator on a dial or graph, e.g. a compass needle.
  4. A sensor for playing phonograph records, a phonograph stylus.
  5. A needle-like leaf found on some conifers.
  6. A strong beam resting on props, used as a temporary support during building repairs.
  7. (usually preceded by the) The death penalty carried out by lethal injection.
  8. A text string that is searched for within another string. (see: needle in a haystack)
verb
  1. To pierce with a needle, especially for sewing or acupuncture.
  2. To tease in order to provoke; to poke fun at.
  3. To form, or be formed, in the shape of a needle.

needled

verb
  1. To pierce with a needle, especially for sewing or acupuncture.
  2. To tease in order to provoke; to poke fun at.
  3. To form, or be formed, in the shape of a needle.
adjective
  1. Covered or armored with needles.

nodule

noun
  1. A rounded mass or irregular shape; a little knot or lump.

noel

noun
  1. Christmas
  2. A kind of hymn, or canticle, of mediaeval origin, sung in honor of the birth of Christ; a Christmas carol.

noodle

noun
  1. (usually in the plural) a string or strip of pasta
  2. A person with poor judgement; a fool
  3. The brain, the head
  4. A pool noodle
verb
  1. To think or ponder.
  2. To fiddle, play with, or mess around.
  3. To improvise music.
  4. To fish (usually for very large catfish) without any equipment other than the fisherman's own body
  5. To fossick, especially for opals.

noodled

verb
  1. To think or ponder.
  2. To fiddle, play with, or mess around.
  3. To improvise music.
  4. To fish (usually for very large catfish) without any equipment other than the fisherman's own body
  5. To fossick, especially for opals.

nouvelle

No Definition Found.

novel

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Newly made, formed or evolved; having no precedent; of recent origin; new.
  2. Original, especially in an interesting way; new and striking; not of the typical or ordinary type.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A work of prose fiction, longer than a novella.
  2. A fable; a short tale, especially one of many making up a larger work.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A novelty; something new.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A new legal constitution in ancient Rome.

null

noun
  1. A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  2. Zero quantity of expressions; nothing.
  3. Something that has no force or meaning.
  4. The ASCII or Unicode character (␀), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  5. The attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  6. One of the beads in nulled work.
  7. Null hypothesis.
verb
  1. To nullify; to annul.
  2. To form nulls, or into nulls, as in a lathe.
  3. To crack; to remove restrictions or limitations in (software).
adjective
  1. Having no validity; "null and void"
  2. Insignificant.
  3. Absent or non-existent.
  4. Of the null set.
  5. Of or comprising a value of precisely zero.
  6. (of a mutation) Causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.

olden

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. From or relating to a previous era.
  2. Old; ancient.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To grow old; age; assume an older appearance or character; become affected by age.

oleo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The various fats and oils that go into the making of margarine.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Margarine

ovule

noun
  1. The structure in a plant that develops into a seed after fertilization; the megasporangium of a seed plant with its enclosing integuments.
  2. An immature ovum in mammals.

unevolved

adjective
  1. Not evolved; yet to evolve.

unlevel

No Definition Found.

unloved

verb
  1. To lose one's love (for someone or something).
adjective
  1. Not loved.

veld

noun
  1. The open pasture land or grassland of South Africa and neighboring countries.

venule

noun
  1. A small vein, especially one that connects capillaries to a larger vein.

vole

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae of the family Cricetidae which are not lemmings or muskrats.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A deal in a card game, écarté, that draws all the tricks.
verb
  1. To win all the tricks by a vole.