Tuesday, October 27, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 116

Number of Answers: 29

Points Needed for Genius: 81

Genius requires between 14 and 25 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 80% 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 116 was in the 20th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on October 23, 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 October 23, 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 October 17, 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 251
  • loll 230
  • toot 224
  • nana 215
  • naan 215
  • tilt 166
  • till 166
  • lilt 166
  • nene 164
  • mamma 164
  • mama 164
  • tint 163
  • onion 156
  • acai 156
  • acacia 156
  • toon 152
  • onto 152
  • anon 142
  • anal 142
  • olio 141
  • papa 133
  • tact 132
  • baba 132
  • mitt 131
  • dodo 131
  • lulu 127
  • lull 127
  • booboo 126
  • boob 126
  • poop 124
  • loon 124
  • cocci 123
  • calla 122
  • call 122
  • moon 121
  • mono 121
  • tattoo 120
  • tartar 120
  • tart 120
  • ratatat 120
  • cancan 119
  • attar 119
  • natant 118
  • tutu 117
  • momma 116
  • aria 116
  • ammo 116
  • ally 116
  • allay 116
  • meme 115


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 125,158 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 11,174 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*:

  • anna
  • annona
  • anoa
  • anyon
  • aphony
  • apnoea
  • apophony
  • ayah
  • ayaya
  • epha
  • ephah
  • haen
  • haha
  • hayey
  • heapy
  • honan
  • hoya
  • hyaena
  • hypha
  • hyphae
  • hyponea
  • hypopnea
  • nanna
  • nano
  • napa
  • nappa
  • nappe
  • nappy
  • nona
  • nonane
  • nyah
  • opah
  • paan
  • paeon
  • pahoehoe
  • panne
  • papayan
  • pean
  • penna
  • pennae
  • yapon
  • yean

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

aeon

noun
  1. (preferred spelling, with æon) A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.
  2. (Cosmology) Each universe in a series of universes, according to conformal cyclic cosmology.
noun
  1. Eternity.
  2. A period of 1,000,000,000 years.
  3. The longest time period used in geology.
  4. A long period of time.
  5. (usually spelled aeon or æon) A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.

ahoy

noun
  1. An utterance of this interjection.
verb
  1. To hail with a cry of "ahoy".
interjection
  1. Used to hail a ship, a boat or a person, or to attract attention.
  2. Warning of something approaching or impending.

annoy

noun
  1. A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.
  2. That which causes such a feeling.
verb
  1. To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.
  2. To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome.
  3. To molest; to harm; to injure.

anon

Etymology 1

adverb
  1. Straight away; at once.
  2. Soon; in a little while.
  3. At another time; then; again.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An anonymous person, especially an author.
  2. A work with an unknown author.
  3. A work without a title.
adjective
  1. Anonymous

anyone

pronoun
  1. Any person; anybody.

apnea

noun
  1. The cessation of breathing.

happen

verb
  1. To occur or take place.
  2. To happen to; to befall.
  3. (with infinitive) To do or occur by chance or unexpectedly.
  4. (followed by on or upon) To encounter by chance.
adverb
  1. Maybe, perhaps.

happy

noun
  1. A happy event, thing, person, etc.
noun
  1. Preceded by the: happy people as a group.
verb
  1. Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.
  2. Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.
adjective
  1. Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, such as comfort, peace, or tranquillity; blissful, contented, joyous.
  2. Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.
  3. Content, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
  4. (Of acts, speech, etc.) Appropriate, apt, felicitous.
  5. (in combination) Favoring or inclined to use.
  6. (of people, often followed by "at" or "in") Dexterous, ready, skilful.

heap

noun
  1. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
  2. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
  3. A great number or large quantity of things.
  4. A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
  5. Memory that is dynamically allocated.
  6. A dilapidated place or vehicle.
  7. A lot, a large amount
verb
  1. To pile in a heap.
  2. To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
  3. To supply in great quantity.
adverb
  1. (representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans; may be offensive) Very.

henna

noun
  1. A shrub, Lawsonia inermis, having fragrant reddish flowers
  2. A reddish plant substance, prepared from the dried leaves of this plant, used for temporary tattoos and hair coloring. Hair colorings range from bright red to earth brown to near black.
  3. A rich reddish-brown colour.
verb
  1. To dye or tattoo with henna.
adjective
  1. Of a rich reddish-brown colour.

hyena

noun
  1. Any of the medium-sized to large feliform carnivores of the subfamily Hyaeninae (genera Hyaena and Crocuta), native to Africa and Asia and noted for the sound similar to laughter which they can make if excited.
  2. (Sub-Saharan Africa) A man that performs ritualized sex acts with recently widowed women and menarchal girls.

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

nanny

noun
  1. A child's nurse.
  2. A grandmother.
  3. A godmother.
  4. A female goat.
verb
  1. To serve as a nanny.
  2. To treat like a nanny's charges; to coddle.

nape

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The back part of the neck.
  2. The part of a fish or bird immediately behind the head.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A tablecloth.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Napalm.
verb
  1. To bombard with napalm.

neap

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A neap tide.
verb
  1. To trap a ship (or ship and crew) in water too shallow to move, due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides.
  2. To ooze, to sink, to subside, to tail
adjective
  1. (of a tide) Low; lowest; the ebb or lowest point of a tide.
  2. Designating a tide which occurs just after the first and third quarters of the moon, when there is the least difference between high tide and low tide.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The swede (rutabaga), called "turnip" in Scotland.

paean

noun
  1. A chant or song, especially a hymn of thanksgiving for deliverance or victory, to Apollo or sometimes another god or goddess; hence any song sung to solicit victory in battle.
  2. (by extension) Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph.
  3. (by extension) An enthusiastic expression of praise.
verb
  1. To sing a paean; to praise.

pane

noun
  1. An individual sheet of glass in a window, door, etc.
  2. A layer in the build-up of a GUI.
  3. A division; a distinct piece or compartment of any surface.
  4. A square of a checkered or plaid pattern.
  5. One of the openings in a slashed garment, showing the bright colored silk, or the like, within; hence, the piece of colored or other stuff so shown.
  6. A compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building.
  7. A subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.
  8. One of the flat surfaces, or facets, of any object having several sides.
  9. One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant-cut diamond.
verb
  1. To fit with panes.
noun
  1. The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end.

papa

noun
  1. Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.
  2. A pet name for one's grandfather.
  3. A parish priest in the Greek Orthodox Church.
  4. The letter P in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

papaya

noun
  1. A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit
  2. The fruit of this tree.
  3. An orange colour, like that of papaya flesh.

pappy

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Like pap; soft; mushy.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Father
  2. Grandfather

payee

noun
  1. One to whom money is paid.

peahen

noun
  1. A female peafowl.

poppa

noun
  1. (sometimes childish) father, papa.

yahoo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth person; yokel; lout.
  2. A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To give a cry of "yahoo".
  2. To search using the Yahoo! search engine.
interjection
  1. An exclamation of joy or enjoyment.
  2. A battle cry.

yappy

adjective
  1. Of a dog, yapping in an annoying manner.
  2. Very talkative; talking foolishly or at length.

yeah

Etymology 1

interjection
  1. Expressing joy, celebration, glee, etc.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference).
  2. (by extension) The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution around the star.
  3. A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishiri 1 to Elul 29 by the Jewish calendar, and from Muharram 1 to Dhu al-Hijjah 29 or 30 by the Islamic calendar.
  4. A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity.
  5. A Julian year, exactly 365.25 days, represented by "a".
  6. A level or grade in school or college.
  7. The proportion of a creature's lifespan equivalent to one year of an average human lifespan (see also dog year).

anyhoo

adverb
  1. Anyhow

payphone

noun
  1. A public telephone that requires prepayment to operate, generally via the insertion of coins or a credit card.