Sunday, May 31, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 113

Number of Answers: 25

Points Needed for Genius: 79

Genius requires between 11 and 22 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 81% 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 113 was in the 19th 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 25 possible answers rank it in the 11th 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 May 28, 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 242
  • loll 223
  • toot 216
  • nana 201
  • naan 201
  • nene 158
  • tilt 156
  • till 156
  • lilt 156
  • mamma 153
  • mama 153
  • tint 150
  • onion 148
  • toon 146
  • onto 146
  • acai 143
  • acacia 143
  • anon 136
  • olio 134
  • anal 134
  • papa 127
  • 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
  • momma 111
  • aria 111
  • ammo 111
  • tatty 110
  • cancan 110
  • roar 109


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 118,521 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 11,038 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*:

  • chico
  • chid
  • chilidog
  • chilli
  • choc
  • choil
  • choli
  • cholo
  • coccic
  • coccid
  • coccoid
  • coco
  • cohog
  • colog
  • cooch
  • coocoo
  • dolci
  • glochid
  • iodic
  • lich
  • lichi
  • odic
  • oologic

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

chic

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Good form; style.
  2. A person with (a particular type of) chic.
adjective
  1. Elegant, stylish.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A kind of ritual buffoon or clown in Yucatec Maya culture.

chichi

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Affectedly trendy; chic and stylish

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (Latin America, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.

child

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority)
  2. (specifically) A female child, a girl.
  3. (with possessive) One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; a son or daughter.
  4. The thirteenth Lenormand card.
  5. A figurative offspring, particularly:
noun
  1. A child of noble birth.
  2. The cognomen given to the oldest son prior to his taking his father's title.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To give birth; to beget or procreate.

childhood

noun
  1. The state of being a child.
  2. The time during which one is a child, from between infancy and puberty.
  3. (by extension) The early stages of development of something.

chili

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used in cooking.
  2. Powdered chili pepper, used as a spice or flavouring in cooking.
  3. (Indian Chinese cuisine) a spicy stew of chicken or paneer, capsicum and onion, eaten as an appetizer.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A dish made with chili peppers and other ingredients, such as beans and beef.
  2. (Cincinnati) Cincinnati chili.

chill

noun
  1. A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
  2. A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.
  3. An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
  4. An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
  5. The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
  6. A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
  7. Calmness; equanimity.
  8. A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
verb
  1. To lower the temperature of something; to cool
  2. To become cold
  3. To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling
  4. To become hard by rapid cooling
  5. To relax, lie back
  6. To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group. Also chill out.
  7. To smoke marijuana
  8. To discourage, depress
adjective
  1. Moderately cold or chilly.
  2. Unwelcoming; not cordial.
  3. Calm, relaxed, easygoing.
  4. "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
  5. Okay, not a problem.

chocoholic

noun
  1. Someone who has such a liking for chocolate that they appear to be addicted to it.
adjective
  1. Addicted or seemingly addicted to chocolate; characteristic of a chocoholic.

cichlid

noun
  1. Any of many tropical fish, of the family Cichlidae, popular as aquarium fish.

clod

noun
  1. A lump of something, especially of earth or clay.
  2. The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
  3. A stupid person; a dolt.
  4. Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.
verb
  1. To pelt with clods.
  2. To throw violently; to hurl.
  3. To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.

clog

noun
  1. A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
  2. A blockage.
  3. A shoe of any type.
  4. A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
  5. That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
verb
  1. To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
  2. To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
  3. To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
  4. To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
  5. To perform a clog dance.

cocci

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any approximately spherical bacterium.
  2. One of the carpels or seed-vessels of a dry fruit.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Coccidioidomycosis

codicil

noun
  1. An addition or supplement that explains, modifies, or revokes a will or part of one.

coho

noun
  1. An anadromus and semelparous salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, found in the coastal regions of the northern Pacific Ocean, used as a symbol by several Native American tribes.

coil

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
  2. Any intrauterine device (Abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
  3. A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
  4. Entanglement; perplexity.
verb
  1. To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.
  2. To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.
  3. To wind cylindrically or spirally.
  4. To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.

cold

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. (of a thing) Having a low temperature.
  2. (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.
  3. (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
  4. Unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling.
  5. Dispassionate, not prejudiced or partisan, impartial.
  6. Completely unprepared; without introduction.
  7. Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
  8. (usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart.
  9. (usually with "have" transitively) Cornered, done for.
  10. Not pungent or acrid.
  11. Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.
  12. Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
  13. Not sensitive; not acute.
  14. Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
  15. Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
  16. Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
  17. Without compassion; heartless; ruthless

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A condition of low temperature.
  2. (with 'the') A harsh place; a place of abandonment.
  3. A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
  4. Rheum, sleepy dust

Etymology 3

adverb
  1. While at low temperature.
  2. Without preparation.
  3. With finality.
  4. In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner.

colic

noun
  1. Severe pains that grip the abdomen or the disease that causes such pains (due to intestinal or bowel-related problems).
  2. A medicinal plant used to relieve such symptoms.
adjective
  1. Relating to the colon; colonic.

colloid

noun
  1. A stable system of two phases, one of which is dispersed in the other in the form of very small droplets or particles.
  2. An intimate mixture of two substances one of which, called the dispersed phase (or colloid), is uniformly distributed in a finely divided state throughout the second substance, called the dispersion medium (or dispersing medium).
  3. A particle less than 1 micron in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
adjective
  1. Glue-like; gelatinous.

cool

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.
  2. A calm temperament.
  3. The property of being cool, popular or in fashion.
adjective
  1. Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.
  2. Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
  3. Of a color, in the range of violet to green.
  4. Of a person, not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.
  5. Unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical.
  6. Calmly audacious.
  7. Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
  8. Of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others.
  9. In fashion, part of or fitting the in crowd; originally hipster slang.
  10. Of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem.
  11. Of a person, not upset by circumstances that might ordinarily be upsetting.
  12. Quietly impudent, defiant, or selfish; deliberately presuming: said of persons and acts.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To lose heat, to get colder.
  2. To make cooler, less warm.
  3. To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
  4. To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
  5. To kill.

godchild

noun
  1. A child whose baptism is sponsored by a godparent. In some cases the relationship is maintained indefinitely, with the godchild being treated much like a niece or nephew.

hooch

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Alcoholic liquor, especially inferior or illicit whisky.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A thatched hut, CHU, or any simple dwelling.

illogic

noun
  1. Lack of logic; unreasonableness; a fallacy.
adjective
  1. Contrary to logic; lacking sense or sound reasoning.

loch

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A lake.
  2. A bay or arm of the sea.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A medicine in a soft form taken by licking; a lambative, a linctus.

loci

noun
  1. A place or locality, especially a centre of activity or the scene of a crime.
  2. The set of all points whose coordinates satisfy a given equation or condition.
  3. A fixed position on a chromosome that may be occupied by one or more genes.
  4. (chiefly in the plural) A passage in writing, especially in a collection of ancient sacred writings arranged according to a theme.

loco

Etymology 1

adverb
  1. A direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A certain species of Astragalus or Oxytropis, capable of causing locoism.
verb
  1. To poison with the loco plant; to affect with locoism.
  2. (by extension) To render insane.
adjective
  1. Crazy.
  2. Intoxicated by eating locoweed.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A locomotive.

logic

noun
  1. A method of human thought that involves thinking in a linear, step-by-step manner about how a problem can be solved. Logic is the basis of many principles including the scientific method.
  2. The study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration.
  3. The mathematical study of relationships between rigorously defined concepts and of mathematical proof of statements.
  4. A formal or informal language together with a deductive system or a model-theoretic semantics.
  5. Any system of thought, whether rigorous and productive or not, especially one associated with a particular person.
  6. The part of a system (usually electronic) that performs the boolean logic operations, short for logic gates or logic circuit.
verb
  1. To engage in excessive or inappropriate application of logic.
  2. To apply logical reasoning to.
  3. To overcome by logical argument.
adjective
  1. Logical