Sunday, July 05, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 232

Number of Answers: 54

Points Needed for Genius: 162

Genius requires between 25 and 46 words. You need at least a 6-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.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 232 was in the 75th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on July 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 54 possible answers rank it in the 81st percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on July 04, 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 6-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on July 03, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.2.
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 244
  • loll 226
  • toot 218
  • nana 204
  • naan 204
  • nene 158
  • tilt 157
  • till 157
  • mamma 157
  • mama 157
  • lilt 157
  • tint 152
  • onion 150
  • acai 148
  • acacia 148
  • toon 147
  • onto 147
  • olio 137
  • anon 137
  • anal 136
  • tact 128
  • papa 128
  • baba 127
  • lulu 125
  • lull 125
  • dodo 125
  • loon 122
  • mitt 121
  • poop 120
  • calla 120
  • call 120
  • booboo 120
  • boob 120
  • cocci 119
  • moon 118
  • mono 118
  • tattoo 117
  • tartar 117
  • tart 117
  • ratatat 117
  • attar 116
  • tutu 114
  • ally 114
  • allay 114
  • aria 113
  • cancan 112
  • tatty 111
  • roar 111
  • momma 111
  • ammo 111


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 119,946 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 11,053 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*:

  • dido
  • dieoff
  • dildoe
  • diol
  • doddle
  • doiled
  • doilied
  • doodoo
  • doolee
  • doolie
  • eddo
  • felloe
  • feod
  • feoff
  • feoffed
  • feoffee
  • fido
  • fillo
  • filo
  • flooie
  • folioed
  • foveole
  • iodid
  • levo
  • lido
  • lilo
  • loid
  • loided
  • looed
  • loof
  • looie
  • oidioid
  • oilfield
  • olde
  • ollied
  • ovoli
  • ovolo
  • voled
  • voodooed

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

devoid

verb
  1. To empty out; to remove.
adjective
  1. Empty; having none of; completely without

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.

dildo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An artificial phallus (penis) for sexual use.
  2. An idiot, a bore.
  3. A columnar cactaceous plant of the West Indies (Pilosocereus royenii).
verb
  1. To penetrate with a dildo or with another object as if it were a dildo.

Etymology 2

interjection
  1. A burden: a phrase or theme that recurs at the end of a verse of a folk song.

diode

noun
  1. An electronic device that allows current to flow in one direction only; used chiefly as a rectifier.

dodo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius.
  2. A person or organisation which is very old or has very old-fashioned views or is not willing to change and adapt.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Fried plantain.

doff

verb
  1. (clothing) To remove or take off, especially of clothing.
  2. To remove or tip a hat, as in greeting, salutation or as a mark of respect.
  3. To get rid of, to throw off.
  4. To strip; to divest; to undress.

doffed

verb
  1. (clothing) To remove or take off, especially of clothing.
  2. To remove or tip a hat, as in greeting, salutation or as a mark of respect.
  3. To get rid of, to throw off.
  4. To strip; to divest; to undress.

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

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dollied

verb
  1. To hit a dolly.
  2. To move (an object) using a dolly.
  3. To wash (laundry) in a tub using the stirring device called a dolly.
  4. To beat (red-hot metal) with a hammer.
  5. To crush ore with a dolly.

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.

dove

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A pigeon, especially one smaller in size; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.
  2. A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.
  3. Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
  4. A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To swim under water.
  2. To jump into water head-first.
  3. To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
  4. To descend sharply or steeply.
  5. (especially with in) To undertake with enthusiasm.
  6. To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
  7. To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
  8. To explore by diving; to plunge into.
  9. To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.

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

fivefold

adjective
  1. In fives; consisting of five in one; quintuple.
adverb
  1. By a factor of five.

floe

noun
  1. A low, flat mass of floating ice.

flood

noun
  1. A (usually disastrous) overflow of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
  2. A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
  3. The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
  4. A floodlight.
  5. Menstrual discharge; menses.
  6. Water as opposed to land.
verb
  1. To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
  2. To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
  3. To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
  4. To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
  5. To bleed profusely, as after childbirth.

flooded

verb
  1. To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
  2. To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
  3. To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
  4. To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
  5. To bleed profusely, as after childbirth.
adjective
  1. Filled with water from rain or rivers.
  2. Filled with too much fluid.
  3. (by extension) Overwhelmed with too much of something.

foil

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A very thin sheet of metal.
  2. Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.
  3. A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant.
  4. (authorship) In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character and who usually acts as an opponent or antagonist.
  5. Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.
  6. A very thin sword with a blunted (or foiled) tip
  7. A thin, transparent plastic material on which marks are made and projected for the purposes of presentation. See transparency.
  8. A stylized flower or leaf.
  9. A hydrofoil.
  10. An aerofoil/airfoil.
verb
  1. To cover or wrap with foil.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
  2. One of the incorrect answers presented in a multiple-choice test.
verb
  1. To prevent (something) from being accomplished.
  2. To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.
  3. To blunt; to dull; to spoil.
  4. To tread underfoot; to trample.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The track of an animal.

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials.

Etymology 5

verb
  1. To defile; to soil.

foiled

verb
  1. To cover or wrap with foil.
verb
  1. To prevent (something) from being accomplished.
  2. To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.
  3. To blunt; to dull; to spoil.
  4. To tread underfoot; to trample.
verb
  1. To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials.
verb
  1. To defile; to soil.
adjective
  1. Having a foil.

fold

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An act of folding.
  2. A bend or crease.
  3. Any correct move in origami.
  4. (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold.
  5. (by extension) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
  6. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.
  7. The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.
  8. In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
  9. A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
verb
  1. To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
  2. To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
  3. To become folded; to form folds.
  4. To fall over; to be crushed.
  5. To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
  6. To give way on a point or in an argument.
  7. To withdraw from betting.
  8. (by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
  9. To stir gently, with a folding action.
  10. Of a company, to cease to trade.
  11. To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.
  12. To cover or wrap up; to conceal.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
  2. (collective) A group of sheep or goats.
  3. Home, family.
  4. A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
  5. A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
  6. A boundary or limit.
verb
  1. To confine animals in a fold.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The Earth; earth; land, country.

folded

verb
  1. To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
  2. To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
  3. To become folded; to form folds.
  4. To fall over; to be crushed.
  5. To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
  6. To give way on a point or in an argument.
  7. To withdraw from betting.
  8. (by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
  9. To stir gently, with a folding action.
  10. Of a company, to cease to trade.
  11. To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.
  12. To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
verb
  1. To confine animals in a fold.

folio

noun
  1. A leaf of a book or manuscript
  2. A page of a book, that is, one side of a leaf of a book.
  3. A page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand pages.
  4. A sheet of paper folded in half.
  5. (books) A book made of sheets of paper each folded in half (two leaves or four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind, exceeding 30 cm in height.
  6. A page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number.
  7. (19th to early 20th century) A leaf containing a certain number of words; hence, a certain number of words in a writing, as in England, in law proceedings 72, and in chancery, 90; in New York, 100 words.
  8. A wrapper for loose papers.
verb
  1. To put a serial number on each folio or page of (a book); to page

food

noun
  1. Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
  2. A foodstuff.
  3. Anything that nourishes or sustains.

foodie

noun
  1. A person with a special interest in or knowledge of food, a gourmet.

fool

noun
  1. A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
  2. A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
  3. Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
  4. Buddy, dude, man.
  5. A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
  6. (often capitalized, Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.
verb
  1. To trick; to deceive
  2. To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly
adjective
  1. Foolish.

fooled

verb
  1. To trick; to deceive
  2. To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly

idol

noun
  1. A graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power.
  2. A cultural icon, or especially popular person.
  3. (originally Japan) Popular entertainer; usually young, captivating, attractive; and often female, with an image of being close to fans.
  4. An eidolon or phantom; something misleading or elusive.

iodide

noun
  1. A binary compound of iodine and another element or radical.

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.

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.

offed

verb
  1. To kill.
  2. To switch off.

oiled

verb
  1. To lubricate with oil.
  2. To grease with oil for cooking.
adjective
  1. Covered in, or supplied with, oil.
  2. Drunk. Usually in conjunction with well.

oldie

noun
  1. Something or someone old.
  2. A song or record from a previous era.
  3. (in the plural) The genre of music composed of popular music from previous eras.

oleo

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Margarine

olio

noun
  1. A rich, thick, Spanish stew consisting of meat and vegetables.
  2. A medley or mixture; a hotchpotch.
  3. A collection of various musical, theatrical or other artistic works; a miscellany.
  4. (by extension) Vaudeville or similar miscellaneous musical or theatrical entertainment skits presented between the main acts of burlesque or minstrel shows.

olive

noun
  1. A tree, Olea europaea, cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean for its fruit and the oil obtained from it.
  2. The small oval fruit of this tree, eaten ripe (usually black) or unripe (usually green).
  3. The wood of the olive tree.
  4. A dark yellowish-green color, that of an unripe olive.
  5. An olivary body, part of the medulla oblongata.
  6. A component of a plumbing compression joint; a ring which is placed between the nut and the pipe and compressed during fastening to provide a seal.
  7. A small slice of meat seasoned, rolled up, and cooked.
  8. Any shell of the genus Oliva and allied genera; so called from the shape.
  9. An oystercatcher, a shore bird.
adjective
  1. Of a grayish green color, that of an unripe olive.

ollie

noun
  1. An aerial maneuver in which one catches air by leaping off the ground with the skateboard and into the air.
verb
  1. To perform an ollie.

ovoid

noun
  1. Something that is oval in shape.
adjective
  1. Shaped like an oval.
  2. Egg-shaped; shaped like an oval, but more tapered at one end; ovate.

video

noun
  1. Television, television show, movie.
  2. A short film clip, with or without audio (as in a music video, or one of the plethora of user-generated short movies on sites such as YouTube).
  3. Motion picture stored on VHS or some other format.
  4. VHS.
verb
  1. To record using a video camera, to videotape
  2. To record a television program

videoed

verb
  1. To record using a video camera, to videotape
  2. To record a television program

viol

noun
  1. A stringed instrument related to the violin family, but held in the lap between the legs like a cello, usually with C-holes, a flat back, a fretted neck and six strings, played with an underhanded bow hold.
verb
  1. To play the viol.

void

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An empty space; a vacuum.
  2. An extended region of space containing no galaxies
  3. A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
  4. A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
  5. An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade.
verb
  1. To make invalid or worthless.
  2. To empty.
  3. To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
  4. To withdraw, depart.
  5. To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.
adjective
  1. Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
  2. Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
  3. Being without; destitute; devoid.
  4. Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
  5. Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
  6. Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
  7. (of a function or method) That does not return a value.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A voidee.

voided

verb
  1. To make invalid or worthless.
  2. To empty.
  3. To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
  4. To withdraw, depart.
  5. To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.
adjective
  1. With the centre cut out.

voile

noun
  1. A light, translucent cotton fabric used for making curtains and dresses.

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.

voodoo

noun
  1. Any of a group of related religious practices found chiefly in and around the Caribbean, particularly in Haiti and Louisiana.
  2. The spiritual beliefs of the Ewe/Fon of West Africa, practiced chiefly in Benin and in the south of Togo.
  3. Any sort of magical or irrational approach to a problem.
  4. One who practices voodoo; a native sorcerer.
verb
  1. To bewitch someone or something using voodoo