Friday, July 31, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 164

Number of Answers: 48

Points Needed for Genius: 115

Genius requires between 17 and 43 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 77% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 67% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 164 was in the 45th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on July 30, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 48 possible answers rank it in the 70th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on July 30, 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 July 30, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.0.
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 246
  • loll 228
  • toot 220
  • nana 204
  • naan 204
  • tilt 160
  • till 160
  • lilt 160
  • mamma 159
  • mama 159
  • nene 158
  • tint 156
  • onion 153
  • acai 150
  • acacia 150
  • toon 147
  • onto 147
  • olio 140
  • anon 138
  • anal 136
  • tact 130
  • papa 129
  • baba 128
  • mitt 126
  • lulu 126
  • lull 126
  • dodo 126
  • loon 123
  • calla 122
  • call 122
  • booboo 122
  • boob 122
  • poop 121
  • cocci 120
  • moon 119
  • mono 119
  • tattoo 118
  • tartar 118
  • tart 118
  • ratatat 118
  • attar 117
  • tutu 115
  • momma 114
  • ammo 114
  • ally 114
  • allay 114
  • cancan 113
  • aria 113
  • meme 112
  • tatty 111


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 121,142 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 11,073 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*:

  • alamo
  • alma
  • amatol
  • amia
  • atma
  • impi
  • lamia
  • lamplit
  • limpa
  • lipomata
  • maill
  • malm
  • maloti
  • maltol
  • mamilla
  • mammati
  • mammilla
  • matt
  • milia
  • milliamp
  • milo
  • milpa
  • milt
  • mola
  • molal
  • molto
  • momi
  • mool
  • motmot
  • mott
  • palmtop
  • papillomata
  • pima
  • pomo
  • tallitim
  • tamal
  • tampala
  • timolol
  • toom

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

ammo

noun
  1. Ammunition.
verb
  1. To load up on ammunition.

atom

noun
  1. The smallest possible amount of matter which still retains its identity as a chemical element, now known to consist of a nucleus surrounded by electrons.
  2. (history of science) A hypothetical particle posited by Greek philosophers as an ultimate and indivisible component of matter.
  3. The smallest, indivisible constituent part or unit of something.
  4. In logical atomism, a fundamental fact that cannot be further broken down.
  5. The smallest medieval unit of time, equal to fifteen ninety-fourths of a second.
  6. A mote of dust in a sunbeam.
  7. A very small amount; a whit.
  8. (Lisp) An individual number or symbol, as opposed to a list; a scalar value.
  9. A non-zero member of a Boolean algebra that is not a union of any other elements. Or, a non-zero member of a Boolean lattice that has only zero below it.
  10. An element of a set that is not itself a set; an urelement.
  11. (usually capitalised as "Atom") A member of an age group division in hockey for ten- to 11-year-olds.

imam

noun
  1. (usually capitalized) A Shi'ite Muslim leader.
  2. One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.

impala

noun
  1. An African antelope, Aepyceros melampus, noted for its leaping ability; the male has ridged, curved horns.

lama

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A master of Tibetan Buddhism.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.

lamp

noun
  1. A device that generates heat, light or other radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.
  2. A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp.
  3. A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.
verb
  1. To hit, clout, belt, wallop.
  2. To hunt at night using a lamp; see lamping.
  3. To hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular.

lima

No Definition Found.

limit

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
  2. A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
  3. Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
  4. The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
  5. Fixed limit.
  6. The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
  7. The space or thing defined by limits.
  8. That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
  9. A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
  10. A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
  11. The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
  12. (as "the limit") A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
adjective
  1. Being a fixed limit game.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
  2. To have a limit in a particular set.
  3. To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.

limo

noun
  1. An automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front.
  2. An automobile with such a body.
  3. A luxury sedan or saloon car, especially one with a lengthened wheelbase or driven by a chauffeur.
  4. An automobile for transportation to or from an airport, including sedans, vans, and buses.

limp

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An irregular, jerky or awkward gait.
  2. A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.
verb
  1. To walk lamely, as if favouring one leg.
  2. (of a vehicle) To travel with a malfunctioning system of propulsion.
  3. To move or proceed irregularly.
  4. To call, particularly in an unraised pot pre-flop.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A scraper of board or sheet-iron shaped like half the head of a small cask, used for scraping the ore off the sieve in the operation of hand-jigging.
verb
  1. To be inadequate or unsatisfactory.
adjective
  1. Flaccid; flabby, like flesh.
  2. Lacking stiffness; flimsy
  3. (of a penis) not erect
  4. (of a man) not having an erect penis
  5. Physically weak

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To happen; befall; chance.
  2. To come upon; meet.

lipoma

No Definition Found.

llama

noun
  1. A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.

loam

noun
  1. A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
  2. A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making moulds for large castings, often without a pattern.
verb
  1. To cover, smear, or fill with loam.
adjective
  1. Made of loam; consisting of loam.

loom

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A utensil; tool; a weapon; (usually in compound) an article in general.
  2. A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making.
  3. The part of an oar which is between the grip or handle and the blade, the shaft.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Loon (bird of order Gaviiformes)

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A distorted appearance of something as seen indistinctly or from afar.
verb
  1. To appear indistinctly, eg. when seen on the horizon or through the murk.
  2. To appear in an exaggerated or threatening form; to be imminent.
  3. To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense.

mail

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A bag or wallet.
  2. A bag containing letters to be delivered by post.
  3. The material conveyed by the postal service.
  4. A stagecoach, train or ship that delivers such post.
  5. The postal service or system in general.
  6. The letters, parcels, etc. delivered to a particular address or person.
  7. Electronic mail, e-mail: a computer network–based service for sending, storing, and forwarding electronic messages.
  8. A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.
verb
  1. (ditransitive) To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail.
  2. (ditransitive) To send by electronic mail.
  3. To contact (a person) by electronic mail.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together.
  2. A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.
  3. Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.
  4. A spot on a bird's feather; by extension, a spotted feather.
verb
  1. To arm with mail.
  2. To pinion.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. An old French coin worth half a denier.
  2. A monetary payment or tribute.
  3. Rent.
  4. Tax.

maillot

noun
  1. A one-piece swimsuit (for women)
  2. A leotard or tights of stretchable jersey fabric, generally worn by dancers and gymnasts.

maim

No Definition Found.

mall

noun
  1. A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
  2. An enclosed shopping centre.
  3. An alley where the game of pall mall was played.
  4. A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade.
  5. A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall.
  6. The game of polo.
  7. An old game played with malls or mallets and balls; pall mall.
verb
  1. To beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise
  2. To build up with the development of shopping malls
  3. To shop at the mall

malt

No Definition Found.

mama

noun
  1. (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

mamma

No Definition Found.

mammal

noun
  1. An animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and feeding milk to its young.
  2. A vertebrate with three bones in the inner ear and one in the jaw.

militia

noun
  1. An army of trained civilians, which may be an official reserve army, called upon in time of need, the entire able-bodied population of a state which may also be called upon, or a private force not under government control.
noun
  1. The police in the Soviet Union and some related or successor states (e.g. modern Belarus).

mill

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
  2. The building housing such a grinding apparatus.
  3. A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process.
  4. A machine for grinding and polishing.
  5. The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
  6. A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.
  7. A building housing such a plant.
  8. An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality, such as a divorce mill, a puppy mill, etc.
  9. An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised
  10. An engine.
  11. A boxing match, fistfight.
  12. (die sinking) A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.
  13. An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
  14. A passage underground through which ore is shot.
  15. A milling cutter.
  16. A treadmill.
  17. A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
verb
  1. To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
  2. To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
  3. To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
  4. (followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.
  5. To cause to mill, or circle around.
  6. (of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.
  7. (of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.
  8. To beat; to pound.
  9. To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
  10. To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
  11. To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
  12. To undergo hulling.
  13. To take part in a fistfight; to box.
  14. To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
  15. (thieves' cant) To commit burglary.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
  2. One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to 1⁄6400 of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also 1⁄6000 and 1⁄6300 are used in other countries.
  2. A unit of measurement equal to 1⁄1000 of an inch, usually used for thin objects, such as sheets of plastic.
  3. A former subdivision (1/1000) of the Maltese lira
  4. (plural "mil") Abbreviation of million.
noun
  1. A unit of measure of capacity, being one thousandth of a litre. Symbol: ml

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. (trading card games) Discarding a card from one's deck.
  2. (trading card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.
verb
  1. (trading card games) To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
  2. (Hearthstone) To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.

mitt

noun
  1. A mitten
  2. An oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt.
  3. (especially in plural) A hand.

moat

noun
  1. A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation.
  2. An aspect of a business which makes it more "defensible" from competitors, either because of the nature of its products, services, franchise or other reason.
  3. A circular lowland between a resurgent dome and the walls of the caldera surrounding it.
  4. A hill or mound.
verb
  1. To surround with a moat.

moil

No Definition Found.

moll

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A female companion of a gangster, especially a former or current prostitute.
  2. A prostitute or woman with loose sexual morals.
  3. Bitch, slut; an insulting epithet applied to a female.
  4. A girlfriend of a bikie.
  5. A girlfriend of a surfie; blends with pejorative sense.
  6. A female fan of extreme metal, grunge or hardcore punk, especially the girlfriend of a musician of those aforementioned genres.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Minor; in the minor mode

molt

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc.
  2. The skin or feathers cast off during the process of moulting.
verb
  1. To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one.
  2. To shed in such a manner.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
  2. To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
  3. To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.
  4. To be discouraged.
  5. To be emotionally softened or touched.
  6. To be very hot and sweat profusely.

momma

noun
  1. Mother
  2. A voluptuous woman.
  3. One's wife or girlfriend.

moola

noun
  1. Money, cash.

moot

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A moot court.
  2. A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties.
  3. A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks.
  4. A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
  5. An assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality).
  6. A ring for gauging wooden pins.
adjective
  1. Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
  2. Being an exercise of thought; academic.
  3. Having no practical impact or relevance.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.
  2. (rural) Talk.
verb
  1. To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.
  2. To discuss or debate.
  3. To make or declare irrelevant.
  4. To argue or plead in a supposed case.
  5. To talk or speak.
  6. To say, utter, also insinuate.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Vagina.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.
verb
  1. To take root and begin to grow.
  2. To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with the snout.

motto

noun
  1. A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement.
  2. A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim.
  3. A paper packet containing a sweetmeat, cracker, etc., together with a scrap of paper bearing a motto.

omit

verb
  1. To leave out or exclude.
  2. To fail to perform.
  3. To neglect or take no notice of.

optima

noun
  1. The best or most favorable condition, or the greatest amount or degree possible under specific sets of comparable circumstances.

optimal

No Definition Found.

palm

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any of various evergreen trees from the family Palmae or Arecaceae, which are mainly found in the tropics.
  2. A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing.
  3. (by extension) Triumph; victory.
  4. Any of 23 awards that can be earned after obtaining the Eagle Scout rank, but generally only before turning 18 years old.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The inner and somewhat concave part of the human hand that extends from the wrist to the bases of the fingers.
  2. The corresponding part of the forefoot of a lower mammal.
  3. A linear measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers; a hand; used in measuring a horse's height.
  4. (sailmaking) A metallic disk attached to a strap and worn in the palm of the hand; used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc.
  5. The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer; so called as resembling the palm of the hand with its protruding fingers.
  6. The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.
verb
  1. To hold or conceal something in the palm of the hand, e.g, for an act of sleight of hand or to steal something.
  2. To hold something without bending the fingers significantly.
  3. To move something with the palm of the hand.

pampa

No Definition Found.

papilloma

noun
  1. An epithelial tumour, usually benign, with the appearance of a papilla

pimp

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
  2. A man who can easily attract women.
verb
  1. To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
  2. To prostitute someone.
  3. To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle, according to ghetto standards (also pimp out).
  4. To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of a senior member of the medical staff).
  5. To promote, to tout.
  6. To persuade, smooth talk or trick another into doing something for your benefit.
adjective
  1. Excellent, fashionable, stylish

Etymology 2

numeral
  1. Five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting

pomp

noun
  1. Show of magnificence; parade; display; power.
  2. A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant.
verb
  1. To make a pompous display; to conduct.

pompom

noun
  1. A decorative ball made of pieces of soft fabric bound at the centre, most notably used in cheerleading.

taillamp

noun
  1. A taillight.

tamp

verb
  1. (blasting) To plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock.
  2. To drive in or pack down by frequent gentle strokes
  3. To reduce the intensity of.

tatami

noun
  1. Straw matting, in a standard size, used as a floor covering in Japanese houses

tomatillo

noun
  1. A plant of the nightshade family originating in Mexico, Physalis philadelphica, cultivated for its tomato-like green to green-purple fruit surrounded by a thin papery skin.

tomato

noun
  1. A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.
  2. The savory fruit of this plant, red when ripe, treated as a vegetable in horticulture and cooking.
  3. A shade of red, the colour of a ripe tomato.
  4. A desirable-looking woman.
  5. A stupid act or person.
verb
  1. To pelt with tomatoes
  2. To add tomatoes to (a dish)

tomtit

noun
  1. Petroica macrocephala, the miromiro or New Zealand tit, a bird of the Petroicidae (Australasian robin) family.