Sunday, October 18, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 300

Number of Answers: 59

Points Needed for Genius: 210

Genius requires between 30 and 50 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 73% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 69% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 300 was in the 92nd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on October 16, 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 89th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on October 15, 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 16, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.7.
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 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 124,771 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*:

  • deni
  • dentine
  • dentoid
  • didie
  • dido
  • diene
  • dinned
  • dinted
  • dite
  • dittoed
  • djin
  • doit
  • doited
  • eejit
  • eide
  • ejido
  • endite
  • endited
  • ident
  • indene
  • indention
  • indite
  • indited
  • inedited
  • inion
  • inned
  • inti
  • intine
  • iodid
  • iodin
  • ionone
  • jettied
  • jinnee
  • nide
  • nided
  • nidi
  • niente
  • ninon
  • nitid
  • niton
  • nodi
  • noontide
  • odontoid
  • oidioid
  • ootid
  • teiid
  • tein
  • teind
  • tentie
  • tineid
  • titi
  • tittie
  • toit
  • toited
  • tondi
  • tontine

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

denied

verb
  1. To disallow or reject.
  2. To assert that something is not true.
  3. (ditransitive) To refuse to give or grant something to someone.
  4. To take something away from someone; to deprive of.
  5. To prevent from scoring.
  6. To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
  7. To refuse (to do or accept something).

dentin

noun
  1. The hard, dense calcareous material that makes up the bulk of a tooth

dentition

noun
  1. The set of natural teeth of an individual
  2. The type, number and arrangement of the normal teeth of an organism or of the actual teeth of an individual
  3. An arrangement in an organism or object of projections that resemble teeth
  4. The process of growing teeth; teething

detention

noun
  1. The act of detaining or the state of being detained.
  2. A temporary state of custody or confinement, especially of a prisoner awaiting trial, or of a student being punished.
  3. The bare physical control without the mental element of intention required for possession.

died

verb
  1. To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
  2. To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
  3. To yearn intensely.
  4. To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
  5. To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
  6. To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
  7. To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
  8. (of a machine) To stop working, to break down.
  9. (of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
  10. To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
  11. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
  12. (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
  13. To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
  14. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
  15. (of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
verb
  1. To colour with dye, or as if with dye.

diet

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
  2. A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
  3. (by extension) Any habitual intake or consumption.
adjective
  1. (of a food or beverage) Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.
  2. Having certain traits subtracted.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
  2. To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
  3. To eat; to take one's meals.
  4. To cause to take food; to feed.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. (usually capitalized as a proper noun) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.
  2. A session of exams
  3. The proceedings under a criminal libel.
  4. A clerical or ecclesiastical function in Scotland.

dieted

verb
  1. To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
  2. To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
  3. To eat; to take one's meals.
  4. To cause to take food; to feed.

dine

noun
  1. Dinnertime
verb
  1. To eat; to eat dinner or supper.
  2. To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
  3. To dine upon; to have to eat.

dined

verb
  1. To eat; to eat dinner or supper.
  2. To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
  3. To dine upon; to have to eat.

dinette

noun
  1. A small space within a dwelling, usually alongside a kitchen, used for informal dining; a dining alcove or nook.
  2. A submarine's mess hall.
  3. Furniture for an indoor informal dining space, usually consisting of chairs and a small table.
  4. A preliminary dinner; luncheon.

dino

noun
  1. Dinosaur.

dint

noun
  1. A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.
  2. Force, power; especially in by dint of.
  3. The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
verb
  1. To dent.

diode

No Definition Found.

ditto

noun
  1. That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise.
  2. A duplicate or copy of a document, particularly one created by a spirit duplicator.
  3. A copy; an imitation.
  4. A symbol, represented by two apostrophes, inverted commas, or quotation marks (" "), when indicating that the item preceding is to be repeated.
  5. (in the plural) A suit of clothes of the same colour throughout.
verb
  1. To repeat the aforesaid, the earlier action etc.
adverb
  1. As said before, likewise.
interjection
  1. Used as an expression of agreement with what another person has said, or to indicate that what they have said equally applies to the person being addressed.

djinn

noun
  1. (Muslim demonology) A genie and descendant of the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form, equivalent to demons in Jewish demonology.

djinni

No Definition Found.

eddied

No Definition Found.

edit

noun
  1. A change to the text of a document.
  2. A change in the text of a file, a website or the code of software.
  3. An interruption or change to an improvised scene.
  4. An alteration to the DNA sequence of a chromosome; an act of gene splicing.
verb
  1. To change a text, or a document.
  2. To be the editor of a publication.
  3. To change the contents of a file, website, etc.
  4. To alter the DNA sequence of a chromosome; to perform gene splicing.
  5. To alter a film by cutting and splicing frames.
  6. To cut short or otherwise alter an improvised scene.
  7. To lend itself to editing in a certain way.

edited

verb
  1. To change a text, or a document.
  2. To be the editor of a publication.
  3. To change the contents of a file, website, etc.
  4. To alter the DNA sequence of a chromosome; to perform gene splicing.
  5. To alter a film by cutting and splicing frames.
  6. To cut short or otherwise alter an improvised scene.
  7. To lend itself to editing in a certain way.
adjective
  1. Having been altered from the original version.

edition

noun
  1. A written work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner.
  2. The whole number of copies of a work printed and published at one time.
  3. A particular instance of an event.

enjoin

verb
  1. To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.
  2. To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.

enjoined

verb
  1. To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.
  2. To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.

idiot

noun
  1. A person of low general intelligence.
  2. A person who makes stupid decisions; a fool.
  3. A person of the lowest intellectual standing, a person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old; a person with an IQ below 30.
adjective
  1. Idiotic, stupid

indeed

adverb
  1. (modal) Truly; in fact; actually.
  2. (degree, after the adjective modified) In fact.
interjection
  1. Indicates emphatic agreement.
  2. With interrogative intonation (low-high) indicates serious doubt.

indent

No Definition Found.

indented

verb
  1. To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth
  2. To be cut, notched, or dented.
  3. To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress
  4. To cut the two halves of a document in duplicate, using a jagged or wavy line so that each party could demonstrate that their copy was part of the original whole.
  5. To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit (to doing something); to contract.
  6. To engage (someone), originally by means of indented contracts.
  7. To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or lesser distance from the margin. See indentation, and indention. Normal indent pushes in a line or paragraph. "hanging indent" pulls the line out into the margin.
  8. To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
  9. To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
adjective
  1. Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.
  2. Having an uneven, irregular border; sinuous; undulating.
  3. Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated.
  4. Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured.
  5. Notched along the margin with a different color, like the feathers of some birds.

indie

noun
  1. An independent publisher.
  2. A work released by an independent publisher.
  3. A type of rock music, generally soft-style without screaming or aggression, mixed with synthesized music and electronic.
  4. A person who listens to indie music and follows indie fashion.
adjective
  1. Independent; from outside the mainstream.

intend

No Definition Found.

intended

verb
  1. (usually followed by the particle "to") To hope; to wish (something, or something to be accomplished); be intent upon
  2. To fix the mind on; attend to; take care of; superintend; regard.
  3. To stretch to extend; distend.
  4. To strain; make tense.
  5. To intensify; strengthen.
  6. To apply with energy.
  7. To bend or turn; direct, as one’s course or journey.
  8. To design mechanically or artistically; fashion; mold.
  9. To pretend; counterfeit; simulate.
noun
  1. Fiancé or fiancée.
adjective
  1. Planned.
  2. Made tense; stretched out; extended; forcible; violent.

intent

noun
  1. A purpose; something that is intended.
  2. The state of someone’s mind at the time of committing an offence.
adjective
  1. Firmly fixed or concentrated on something.
  2. Engrossed.
  3. Unwavering from a course of action.

intention

noun
  1. The goal or purpose behind a specific action or set of actions.
  2. Tension; straining, stretching.
  3. A stretching or bending of the mind toward an object or a purpose (an intent); closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness.
  4. The object toward which the thoughts are directed; end; aim.
  5. Any mental apprehension of an object.
  6. The process of the healing of a wound.
verb
  1. Intend

into

preposition
  1. To or towards the inside of.
  2. To or towards the region of.
  3. Against, especially with force or violence.
  4. Indicates transition into another form or substance.
  5. After the start of.
  6. Interested in or attracted to.
  7. Expressing the operation of multiplication.
  8. Expressing the operation of division, with the denominator given first. Usually with "goes".
  9. Investigating the subject (of).

intone

verb
  1. To give tone or variety of tone to; to vocalize.
  2. To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to speak or recite with singing voice; to chant.
  3. To utter a tone; utter a protracted sound.

intoned

verb
  1. To give tone or variety of tone to; to vocalize.
  2. To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to speak or recite with singing voice; to chant.
  3. To utter a tone; utter a protracted sound.

iodide

No Definition Found.

iodine

noun
  1. A chemical element (symbol: I) with an atomic number of 53; one of the halogens.
  2. An antiseptic incorporating the element.
  3. An iodide.
verb
  1. To treat with iodine.

jinn

No Definition Found.

jinni

noun
  1. (Muslim demonology) A genie and descendant of the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form, equivalent to demons in Jewish demonology.

join

noun
  1. An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.
  2. An intersection of data in two or more database tables.
  3. The act of joining something, such as a network.
  4. The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∨.
verb
  1. To connect or combine into one; to put together.
  2. To come together; to meet.
  3. To come into the company of.
  4. To become a member of.
  5. To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.
  6. To unite in marriage.
  7. To enjoin upon; to command.
  8. To accept, or engage in, as a contest.

joined

verb
  1. To connect or combine into one; to put together.
  2. To come together; to meet.
  3. To come into the company of.
  4. To become a member of.
  5. To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.
  6. To unite in marriage.
  7. To enjoin upon; to command.
  8. To accept, or engage in, as a contest.

joint

noun
  1. The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.
  2. The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.
  3. Any part of the body where two bones join, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened.
  4. The means of securing together the meeting surfaces of components of a structure.
  5. A cut of meat.
  6. The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations.
  7. A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.
  8. (somewhat derogatory) A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality industries.
  9. (with the definite article) Prison.
  10. A marijuana cigarette.
  11. A syringe used to inject an illicit drug.
  12. The penis.
verb
  1. To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together
  2. To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
  3. To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
  4. To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.
  5. To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do.
adjective
  1. Done by two or more people or organisations working together.

jointed

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Having joints.
  2. (of an entertainment venue) Extremely full of people, packed, chockablock.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together
  2. To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
  3. To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
  4. To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.
  5. To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do.

nine

noun
  1. The digit or figure 9.
  2. A playing card with nine pips.
  3. A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol.
  4. (usually in the plural) A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.).
  5. A baseball club, team, or lineup (composed of nine players).
numeral
  1. A numerical value equal to 9; the number following eight and preceding ten.
  2. Describing a group or set with nine elements.

nineteen

numeral
  1. The cardinal number occurring after eighteen and before twenty, represented in Roman numerals as XIX and in Arabic numerals as 19. It is the last/largest of the "teens".

nite

noun
  1. The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark.
  2. (Astronomy) The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight.
  3. (Legal) Often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.
  4. An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
  5. A night (and part of the days before and after it) spent in a place away from home, e.g. a hotel.
  6. Nightfall.
  7. Darkness (due to it being nighttime).
  8. A dark blue colour, midnight blue.
  9. A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.

notion

No Definition Found.

onion

No Definition Found.

tide

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon.
  2. A stream, current or flood.
  3. (chronology, except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
  4. A time.
  5. A point or period of time identified or described by a qualifier (found in compounds).
  6. The period of twelve hours.
  7. Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
  8. Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
  9. Violent confluence
verb
  1. To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
  2. To pour a tide or flood.
  3. To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To happen, occur.

tided

verb
  1. To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
  2. To pour a tide or flood.
  3. To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
verb
  1. To happen, occur.
adjective
  1. Affected by the tide; having a tide.

tidied

verb
  1. To make tidy; to neaten.

tied

verb
  1. To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
  2. To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
  3. To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
  4. To secure (something) by string or the like.
  5. To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
  6. To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
  7. To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
  8. To believe; to credit.
  9. In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.
adjective
  1. Closely connected or associated.
  2. Restricted.
  3. Conditional on other agreements being upheld.
  4. That resulted in a tie.
  5. Provided for use by an employer for as long as one is employed, often with restrictions on the conditions of use.
  6. Having walls that are connected in a few places by a single stone overlapping from one wall to another.

tine

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb.
  2. A small branch, especially on an antler or horn.
  3. A wild vetch or tare.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Small, diminutive

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Trouble; distress; teen.

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To kindle; to set on fire.
  2. To rage; to smart.

Etymology 5

verb
  1. To shut in, or enclose.

tined

No Definition Found.

tinned

verb
  1. To place into a tin in order to preserve.
  2. To cover with tin.
  3. To coat with solder in preparation for soldering.
adjective
  1. Coated, or plated with tin.
  2. Packed in a tin can; canned.
  3. Previously prepared; not fresh or new

tint

noun
  1. A slight coloring.
  2. A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)
  3. A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.
  4. A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
verb
  1. To shade, to color.

tinted

No Definition Found.

toonie

No Definition Found.

innie

noun
  1. A navel that is formed of a hollow in the abdomen (as opposed to one that protrudes from the abdomen).
  2. A vagina with inner labia minora

intentioned

verb
  1. Intend
adjective
  1. (usually in compounds) Having a certain intention