Tuesday, June 23, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 108

Number of Answers: 29

Points Needed for Genius: 76

Genius requires between 12 and 26 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 83% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 65% 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 108 was in the 16th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on June 07, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 29 possible answers rank it in the 21st percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on June 21, 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 June 22, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 4.9.
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 225
  • toot 218
  • nana 203
  • naan 203
  • nene 158
  • tilt 157
  • till 157
  • lilt 157
  • mamma 156
  • mama 156
  • tint 152
  • onion 150
  • toon 147
  • onto 147
  • acai 147
  • acacia 147
  • olio 136
  • anon 136
  • anal 135
  • papa 128
  • tact 127
  • baba 126
  • lulu 125
  • lull 125
  • dodo 124
  • loon 122
  • mitt 121
  • poop 120
  • booboo 120
  • boob 120
  • cocci 119
  • calla 119
  • call 119
  • moon 118
  • mono 118
  • tattoo 117
  • tartar 117
  • tart 117
  • ratatat 117
  • attar 116
  • tutu 114
  • ally 114
  • allay 114
  • aria 112
  • tatty 111
  • momma 111
  • cancan 111
  • ammo 111
  • roar 110


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 119,512 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 11,050 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*:

  • airn
  • amain
  • amarna
  • amia
  • amin
  • amir
  • amnia
  • animi
  • anna
  • anura
  • anuran
  • anuria
  • aurar
  • aurum
  • imaum
  • inarm
  • inia
  • jarina
  • jnana
  • jumar
  • jura
  • maar
  • mair
  • mana
  • manana
  • mannan
  • mara
  • maria
  • marram
  • maun
  • mina
  • mura
  • murra
  • murrain
  • naira
  • nairu
  • nanna
  • numina
  • raia
  • rami
  • ramin
  • ruana
  • rumina
  • umma
  • unai
  • unau
  • urania
  • urari

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

airman

noun
  1. A pilot of an aircraft.
  2. A member of an air force.
  3. A person of a rank in the U.S. Air Force above airman basic and below airman first class.
  4. A naval seaman, especially one in the U.S. Navy, who works on and/or handles aircraft.

ajar

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To turn or open slightly; to become ajar or to cause to become ajar; to be or to hang ajar.
adjective
  1. Slightly turned or opened.
adverb
  1. Slightly turned or opened.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To show variance or contradiction with something; to be or cause to be askew.
adverb
  1. Out of harmony.
  2. Being at variance or in contradiction to something.

anima

noun
  1. The soul or animating principle of a living thing, especially as contrasted with the animus.
  2. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) of a person that is in touch with the unconscious as opposed to the persona.
  3. (Jungian psychology) The unconscious feminine aspect of a person.

aria

noun
  1. A musical piece written typically for a solo voice with orchestral accompaniment in an opera or cantata.

arum

noun
  1. A flower or plant in the genus Arum

aura

noun
  1. Distinctive atmosphere or quality associated with something.
  2. An invisible force surrounding a living creature.
  3. Perceptual disturbance experienced by some migraine sufferers before a migraine headache.
  4. Telltale sensation experienced by some people with epilepsy before a seizure.

imam

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

maim

noun
  1. A serious wound
verb
  1. To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.

main

Etymology 1

verb
  1. Short for mainline.
  2. To mainly play a specific character, or side, during a game.
  3. Of a road: to convert into a main or primary road.
adjective
  1. Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal.
  2. Chief, most important, or principal in extent, size, or strength; consisting of the largest part.
  3. (of force, strength, etc.) Full, sheer, undivided.
  4. Big; angry.
  5. Belonging to or connected with the principal mast in a vessel.
  6. Great in size or degree; important, powerful, strong, vast.
adverb
  1. Exceedingly, extremely, greatly, mightily, very, very much.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. That which is chief or principal; the chief or main portion; the bulk, the greater part, gross.
  2. A large cable or pipe providing utility service to an area or a building, such as a water main or electric main.
  3. Short for main course.
  4. The high seas.
  5. The mainland.
  6. Short for mainsail.
  7. (except in might and main) Force, power, strength, violent effort.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A hand or match in a game of dice.
  2. The largest throw in a match at dice; in the game of hazard, a number from one to nine called out by a person before the dice are thrown.
  3. A stake played for at dice.
  4. A sporting contest or match, especially a cockfighting match.
  5. A banker's shovel for coins.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A basket for gathering grapes.

mama

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

mamma

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. (plural: mammae)
  2. An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera

Etymology 2

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

mania

noun
  1. Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
  2. Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.
  3. The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.

manna

noun
  1. Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.
  2. (by extension) Any boon which comes into one's hands by good luck.
  3. The sugary sap of the manna gum tree which oozes out from holes drilled by insects and falls to the ground around the tree.http//www.museum.vic.gov.au/forest/plants/gum.html

marijuana

noun
  1. A drug smoked or ingested for euphoric effect, cannabis.
  2. The hemp plant itself, Cannabis sativa.

marina

noun
  1. A harbour for small boats.

marinara

noun
  1. A marinara sauce.
adjective
  1. Prepared with tomatoes, or in a tomato sauce.
  2. Of pasta: In a seafood sauce. Of pizza: With seafood topping.

minima

noun
  1. The lowest limit.
  2. The smallest amount.
  3. A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star).
  4. A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
  5. The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution.

naan

noun
  1. A type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine.

nana

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A banana
  2. A fool

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (term of endearment) one's grandmother
  2. A nanny

ninja

noun
  1. An adult male human.
  2. (collective) All human males collectively: mankind.
  3. A human, a person of either gender, usually an adult. (See usage notes.)
  4. (collective) All humans collectively: mankind, humankind, humanity. (Sometimes capitalized as Man.)
  5. A member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens.
  6. An male person, usually an adult; a (generally adult male) sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.
  7. An adult male who has, to an eminent degree, qualities considered masculine, such as strength, integrity, and devotion to family; a mensch.
  8. Manliness; the quality or state of being manly.
  9. A husband.
  10. A lover; a boyfriend.
  11. A male enthusiast or devotee; a male who is very fond of or devoted to a specified kind of thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.)
  12. A person, usually male, who has duties or skills associated with a specified thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.)
  13. A person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter.
  14. A male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a student or alumnus, a representative, etc.
  15. An adult male servant.
  16. A vassal; a subject.
  17. A piece or token used in board games such as chess.
  18. Used to refer to oneself or one's group: I, we; construed in the third person.
  19. A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste.
  20. A friendly term of address usually reserved for other adult males.
  21. A player on whom another is playing, with the intent of limiting their attacking impact.
noun
  1. A person trained in ninjutsu, especially one used for espionage, assassination, and other tasks requiring stealth during Japan's shogunate period.
  2. A person considered similarly skillful to the historical ninja, especially in covert or stealthy operation.
  3. A person considered to look like the historical ninja in some way, including (Mongolia) amateur private miners.
verb
  1. To act or move like a ninja, particularly with regard to a combination of speed, power, and stealth.
  2. To claim an item through abuse of game mechanics.
adjective
  1. Of or related to ninjas in their various senses.
verb
  1. To appropriate something (before someone else does).
  2. To displace something, or take precedence over something.
  3. To secure (land, etc.) by the right of preemption.
  4. To make a preemptive bid at bridge.

rain

noun
  1. Condensed water falling from a cloud.
  2. Any matter moving or falling, usually through air, and especially if liquid or otherwise figuratively identifiable with raindrops.
  3. An instance of particles or larger pieces of matter moving or falling through air.
verb
  1. To have rain fall from the sky.
  2. To fall as or like rain.
  3. To issue (something) in large quantities.
  4. To reign.

raja

noun
  1. A Hindu prince or ruler in India.
  2. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Charaxes.

rani

noun
  1. The wife of a rajah.
  2. A Hindu princess or female ruler in India.

umami

noun
  1. One of the five basic tastes, the savory taste of foods such as seaweed, cured fish, aged cheeses and meats.

unarm

verb
  1. To disarm, to remove the armour and weapons from.
  2. To remove one's armour.

unjam

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unman

verb
  1. To castrate; to remove the manhood of.
  2. To sap (a person) of the strength, whether physical or emotional, required to deal with a situation.
  3. To deprive of men.

uranium

noun
  1. The element with atomic number 92 and symbol U: a radioactive silvery-grey metal in the actinide series.

marm

noun
  1. Madam; a polite term of address for a lady.