Thursday, August 27, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 216

Number of Answers: 51

Points Needed for Genius: 151

Genius requires between 22 and 44 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 75% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 68% of the remaining points to reach genius.

Other days with this pangram:

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 216 was in the 69th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on August 25, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 51 possible answers rank it in the 77th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on August 24, 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 August 26, 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 249
  • loll 228
  • toot 222
  • nana 208
  • naan 208
  • tilt 160
  • till 160
  • nene 160
  • mamma 160
  • mama 160
  • lilt 160
  • tint 158
  • onion 153
  • acai 151
  • acacia 151
  • toon 149
  • onto 149
  • olio 140
  • anon 140
  • anal 139
  • tact 130
  • dodo 130
  • papa 129
  • mitt 129
  • baba 129
  • lulu 126
  • lull 126
  • loon 124
  • booboo 123
  • boob 123
  • poop 122
  • calla 122
  • call 122
  • cocci 121
  • tartar 120
  • tart 120
  • ratatat 120
  • moon 120
  • mono 120
  • tattoo 119
  • attar 119
  • tutu 116
  • cancan 115
  • aria 115
  • momma 114
  • meme 114
  • ammo 114
  • ally 114
  • allay 114
  • natant 113


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 122,356 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 11,127 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*:

  • amort
  • atma
  • atomy
  • martyry
  • matt
  • moorwort
  • moratory
  • mort
  • mortary
  • motmot
  • mott
  • myomata
  • ottar
  • otto
  • rato
  • rootworm
  • rooty
  • rota
  • roto
  • ryot
  • tamarao
  • tammy
  • tarama
  • tarty
  • tatar
  • tayra
  • tommy
  • toom
  • tora
  • torot
  • torr
  • tory
  • totty
  • towaway
  • towy
  • toyo
  • trow
  • tryma
  • trymata
  • twat
  • wormroot

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

amatory

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aorta

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arrowroot

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arty

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atom

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attar

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marmot

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mart

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martyr

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moat

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moot

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mortar

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motor

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motorway

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motto

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oaty

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orator

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oratory

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ratatat

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ratty

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root

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rotary

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rotator

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rotatory

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rotor

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taro

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tarot

noun
  1. (singular or plural) A card game played in various different variations.
  2. Any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination.

tarry

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tart

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Sharp to the taste; acid; sour.
  2. (of wine) high or too high in acidity.
  3. Sharp; keen; severe.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A type of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A prostitute.
  2. By extension, any woman with loose sexual morals.
verb
  1. To practice prostitution
  2. To practice promiscuous sex
  3. To dress garishly, ostentatiously, whorishly, or sluttily

tartar

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tattoo

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tatty

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tomato

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tommyrot

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tomorrow

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toot

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The noise of a horn or whistle.
  2. (by extension) A fart; flatus.
  3. Cocaine.
  4. A portion of cocaine that a person snorts.
  5. A spree of drunkness.
  6. (pronounced /tʊt/) Rubbish; tat.
  7. A message on the social networking software Mastodon.
verb
  1. To stand out, or be prominent.
  2. To peep; to look narrowly.
  3. To see; to spy.
  4. To flatulate.
  5. To make the sound of a horn or whistle.
  6. To cause a horn or whistle to make its sound.
  7. To go on a drinking binge.
  8. To snort (a recreational drug).
  9. To post a message on a Mastodon instance (a self-hosted version of the networking software).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A toilet.

toro

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tort

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An injury or wrong.
  2. A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, which causes an injury and can be remedied in civil court, usually through the awarding of damages.
  3. (only in the plural torts) Tort law (the area of law dealing with such wrongful acts).

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Tart; sharp.

Etymology 3

adjective
  1. Stretched tight; taut.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A tortoise.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. A tortoiseshell (animal with coloured markings on fur).

torta

noun
  1. A sandwich, served either hot or cold, on an oblong white sandwich roll, derived from Mexican cuisine
  2. A Philippine omelette of ground meat and potatoes.
  3. A flat heap of moist, crushed silver ore, prepared for the patio process.

tram

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A passenger vehicle for public use that runs on tracks in the road (called a streetcar or trolley in North America).
  2. A similar vehicle for carrying materials.
  3. A people mover.
  4. An aerial cable car.
  5. A train with wheels that runs on a road; a trackless train.
  6. A car on a horse railway or tramway (horse trams preceded electric trams).
  7. The shaft of a cart.
  8. One of the rails of a tramway.
verb
  1. To operate, or conduct the business of, a tramway.
  2. To travel by tram.
  3. To transport (material) by tram.
  4. To align a component in mechanical engineering or metalworking, particularly the head of a drill press.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of velvets and silk goods.

tramway

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tray

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trot

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.
  2. Equipment with legs.
  3. Type of equipment.
  4. A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
  5. The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
  6. An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see Variations of basketball#H-O-R-S-E).
  7. (among students) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
  8. (among students) horseplay; tomfoolery
noun
  1. Heroin (drug).
noun
  1. An ugly old woman, a hag.
  2. (chiefly of horses) A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).
  3. A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
  4. A brisk journey or progression.
  5. A toddler.
  6. A young animal.
  7. A moderately rapid dance.
  8. A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
  9. (with "good" or "bad") A run of luck or fortune.
  10. (as 'the trots') Diarrhoea.
verb
  1. To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.
  2. (of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
  3. To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A supporter of Trotskyism.

troy

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tyro

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wart

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warty

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watt

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worrywart

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wort

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woot

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