Sunday, March 29, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 221

Number of Answers: 50

Points Needed for Genius: 155

Genius requires between 23 and 43 words. You need at least a 7-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 221 was in the 72nd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on March 28, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 50 possible answers rank it in the 75th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on March 28, 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 March 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 235
  • loll 216
  • toot 211
  • nana 195
  • naan 195
  • nene 155
  • tilt 153
  • till 153
  • lilt 153
  • mamma 149
  • mama 149
  • tint 148
  • onion 142
  • toon 141
  • onto 141
  • acai 140
  • acacia 140
  • anon 131
  • anal 131
  • olio 127
  • papa 124
  • baba 124
  • lulu 123
  • lull 123
  • dodo 123
  • tact 122
  • poop 119
  • booboo 119
  • boob 119
  • moon 117
  • mono 117
  • mitt 117
  • cocci 117
  • calla 115
  • call 115
  • tartar 114
  • tart 114
  • ratatat 114
  • loon 114
  • attar 113
  • tutu 112
  • tattoo 112
  • ally 111
  • allay 111
  • momma 110
  • ammo 110
  • tatty 109
  • meme 109
  • roar 108
  • aria 108


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 115,660 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,947 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*:

  • abaca
  • abba
  • abolla
  • aboon
  • alba
  • albinal
  • albinic
  • baal
  • baboo
  • babool
  • bacalao
  • bacca
  • baccala
  • balboa
  • ballon
  • banco
  • bani
  • banian
  • biali
  • bibb
  • bilbo
  • bilboa
  • billon
  • binal
  • blain
  • bobo
  • bocaccio
  • boccia
  • bonaci
  • boocoo
  • cabbala
  • cabob
  • cannabic
  • cannabin
  • cannabinol
  • cibol
  • coalbin
  • cobb
  • cobia
  • cocobola
  • cocobolo
  • colobi
  • liblab
  • niobic
  • nonbiblical
  • obconic
  • obconical
  • obia
  • obol
  • oboli

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

abaci

No Definition Found.

aboil

No Definition Found.

albino

noun
  1. A person or animal congenitally lacking melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); one born with albinism.
adjective
  1. Congenitally lacking melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); born with albinism.

alibi

noun
  1. The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in another place when the alleged act was committed
verb
  1. To provide an alibi for.
  2. To provide an excuse for.

anabolic

noun
  1. An anabolic steroid.
adjective
  1. Of or relating to anabolism.

baba

noun
  1. A kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup.
  2. (esp. among people of East European ancestry) A grandmother.
  3. An old woman, especially a traditional old woman from an eastern European culture.
  4. (esp. among people of Indian ancestry) A father.
  5. (Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism) A holy man, a spiritual leader.
  6. A baby, child.
  7. In baby talk, often used for a variety of words beginning with b, such as bottle or blanket.

baboon

noun
  1. An Old World monkey of the genus Papio, having dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks.
  2. A foolish or boorish person.

bacilli

noun
  1. Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming aerobic bacteria in the genus Bacillus, some of which cause disease.
  2. Any bacilliform (rod-shaped) bacterium.
  3. (by extension) Something which spreads like bacterial infection.

bacon

noun
  1. Cured meat from the sides, belly or back of a pig.
  2. Thin slices of the above in long strips.
  3. The police or spies.
  4. Road rash.
  5. A saucisse.

bail

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
  2. Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
  3. The person providing such payment.
  4. A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
  5. A person who bails water out of a boat.
  6. Custody; keeping.
verb
  1. To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
  2. To release a person under such guarantee.
  3. To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
  4. To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
  5. To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
  6. To set free; to deliver; to release.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To exit quickly.
  2. To fail to meet a commitment.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket).
  2. A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop).
  3. A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.
  4. A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.
  5. A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.
  6. One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.
  7. (furniture) Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail.
verb
  1. To secure the head of a cow during milking.

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To confine.
  2. To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
  3. To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up. (Usually with up.)

ball

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
  2. A round or ellipsoidal object.
  3. (mildly, usually in the plural) A testicle.
  4. A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.
  5. A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.
verb
  1. To form or wind into a ball.
  2. To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
  3. To have sexual intercourse with.
  4. To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.
  5. (usually in present participle) To be hip or cool.
  6. To play basketball.
  7. To punish by affixing a ball and chain
interjection
  1. An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player. This is heard almost any time an opposition player is tackled, without regard to whether the rules about "prior opportunity" to dispose of the ball are fulfilled.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A formal dance.
  2. A very enjoyable time.

balloon

noun
  1. An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
  2. Such an object as a child’s toy or party decoration.
  3. Such an object designed to transport people through the air.
  4. A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
  5. A speech bubble.
  6. A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.
  7. A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
  8. A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
  9. A bomb or shell.
  10. A game played with a large inflated ball.
  11. (engraving) The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
  12. A woman's breast.
  13. A small container for illicit drugs made from a condom or the finger of a latex glove, etc.
verb
  1. To increase or expand rapidly.
  2. To go up or voyage in a balloon.
  3. To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
  4. To inflate like a balloon.
  5. To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.
noun
  1. An unusually large payment due at the end of the term of a loan agreement.

banal

adjective
  1. Common in a boring way, to the point of being predictable; containing nothing new or fresh.
  2. (history) Relating to a type of feudal jurisdiction or service.

banana

noun
  1. An elongated curved tropical fruit that grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.
  2. The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas. The plant, usually of the genus Musa but sometimes also including plants from Ensete, has large, elongated leaves and is related to the plantain.
  3. A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.
  4. (mildly) A person of Asian descent, especially a Chinese American, who has assimilated into Western culture or married a Caucasian (from the "yellow" outside and "white" inside). Compare coconut or Oreo.
  5. A banana equivalent dose.
  6. A catamorphism (from the use of banana brackets in the notation).
  7. The penis.
  8. A banana kick.
adjective
  1. Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.

banc

No Definition Found.

baobab

noun
  1. A tree, Adansonia digitata (and similar species), native to tropical Africa, having a broad swollen trunk and edible gourd-like hanging fruits.

biblical

adjective
  1. Of or relating to the Bible.
  2. In accordance with the teachings of the Bible (according to some interpretation of it).
  3. Very great; especially, exceeding previous records in scale.

bilabial

noun
  1. A speech sound articulated with both lips.
adjective
  1. Articulated with both lips.

bill

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.
  2. A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
  3. Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
  4. A pickaxe, or mattock.
  5. The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
verb
  1. To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
  2. A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.
  3. Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
verb
  1. To peck
  2. To stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
  2. A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
  3. A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
  4. A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.
  5. A piece of paper money; a banknote.
  6. A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.
  7. A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods
  8. A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document; a bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.
  9. A set of items presented together.
verb
  1. To advertise by a bill or public notice.
  2. To charge; to send a bill to.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. The bell, or boom, of the bittern.

billion

noun
  1. (modern British & Australian, short scale) a thousand million (logic: 1,000 × 1,000^2): 1 followed by nine zeros, 109; a milliard
  2. (British & Australian, long scale) A million million (logic: 1,000,000^2): a 1 followed by twelve zeros; 1012
  3. An unspecified very large number.

bionic

adjective
  1. Related to bionics.
  2. Of a biological organism, having been enhanced by electronic or mechanical parts; cyborg.
  3. Superhuman

blab

noun
  1. One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale; a gossip or gossiper.
  2. Gossip; prattle.
verb
  1. To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.

blin

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Cessation; end.
verb
  1. To cease (from); to stop; to desist, to let up.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A blintz.

blini

noun
  1. A small pancake, of Russian origin, made from buckwheat flour; traditionally served with melted butter, sour cream and caviar or smoked salmon.

blob

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.
  2. In astronomy, a large cloud of gas. In particular, an extended Lyman-Alpha blob is a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy.
  3. A bubble; a bleb.
  4. A small freshwater fish (Cottus bairdii); the miller's thumb.
  5. The partially inflated air bag used in the sport of blobbing.
  6. A score of zero.
verb
  1. To drop in the form of a blob or blobs
  2. To drop a blob or blobs onto, cover with blobs.
  3. To fall in the form of a blob or blobs.
  4. To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Acronym of binary large object. (a data type that allows storage of binary data often of indeterminate length).

bloc

noun
  1. A group of voters or politicians who share common goals.
  2. A group of countries acting together for political or economic goals, an alliance: e.g., the eastern bloc, the western bloc, a trading bloc, the Eurozone, the European Union.

bobbin

noun
  1. A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.
  2. In a sewing machine, the small spool that holds the lower thread.
  3. The little rounded piece of wood at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
  4. (haberdashery) A fine cord or narrow braid.

bocci

noun
  1. A game, similar to bowls or pétanque, played on a long, narrow, dirt-covered court
  2. One of the eight balls that the player throws in a game of bocce.

boil

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.
  2. A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.
  3. The collective noun for a group of hawks.
verb
  1. (of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
  2. To cook in boiling water.
  3. (of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
  4. To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
  5. (used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.
  6. (used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.
  7. To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
  8. To steep or soak in warm water.
  9. To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
  10. To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.

bola

noun
  1. A throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of a cord.

boll

noun
  1. The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
  2. An old dry measure equal to six bushels.
verb
  1. To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.

bolo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A long, heavy, single-edged machete.
  2. A type of punch; an uppercut.
verb
  1. To attack or despatch with a bolo knife.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A soldier not capable of the minimum standards of marksmanship.
verb
  1. To fail to meet the minimum standards of marksmanship.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A string or leather necktie secured with an ornamental slide.
verb
  1. To dress (somebody) in a bolo.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A request for law enforcement officers to be on the lookout for a suspect.

bonbon

noun
  1. A sweet, especially a small chocolate-covered candy.
  2. A small, spherical savory snack or canapé.
  3. A Christmas cracker.

bonobo

noun
  1. The pygmy chimpanzee, Pan paniscus, from Africa south of the Congo river.

boob

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Idiot, fool.
verb
  1. To behave stupidly; to act like a boob.
  2. To make a mistake
adjective
  1. Idiotic, foolish.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A breast, especially that of an adult or adolescent human female.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A prison; jail.

booboo

noun
  1. A mistake or error.
  2. (by or to young children) A minor injury, such as a cut or a bruise.
  3. (by or to young children) Feces.

boon

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A prayer; petition.
  2. That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.
  3. A good thing; a blessing or benefit; a thing to be thankful for.
  4. An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Good; prosperous.
  2. Kind; bountiful; benign.
  3. (Now only in boon companion) gay; merry; jovial; convivial.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.

cabal

noun
  1. # A putative, secret organization of individuals gathered for a political purpose.
  2. A secret plot.
  3. An identifiable group within the tradition of Discordianism.
verb
  1. To engage in the activities of a cabal.

cabala

proper noun
  1. A body of mystical Jewish teachings based on an esoteric reading of the Hebrew scriptures.

cabana

noun
  1. A cabin or hut for relaxing.
  2. A shelter on a beach or at a swimming pool.

cabin

noun
  1. A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it.
  2. A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.
  3. A private room on a ship.
  4. The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
  5. The passenger area of an airplane.
  6. (travel) The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.
  7. A signal box.
  8. A small room; an enclosed place.
  9. (Indian English) A private office; particularly of a doctor, businessman, lawyer, or other professional.
verb
  1. To place in a cabin or other small space.
  2. (by extension) To limit the scope of.
  3. To live in, or as if in, a cabin; to lodge.

cannibal

noun
  1. An organism which eats others of its own species or kind, especially a human who eats human flesh.

cannonball

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (artillery)

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The act of running and jumping in a flexed position into a swimming pool to create a large splash, mimicking the flight and shape of a cannonball.
verb
  1. To jump/dive into water doing a cannonball landing.
  2. To careen; to move rapidly
interjection
  1. Yelled when jumping/diving into the water, doing a cannonball landing.

labia

noun
  1. The folds of tissue at the opening of the vulva, at either side of the vagina.
noun
  1. A liplike structure; especially one of the two pairs of folds of skin either side of the vulva.
  2. The lip of a labiate corolla.
  3. The lip against which pressured air is driven to produce sound in a recorder and in a pipe organ with flue pipes.

labial

noun
  1. A consonant articulated by the lips.
  2. An organ pipe having a lip that influences its sound.
  3. Any of the scales bordering the mouth opening of a reptile.
adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to the lips or labia.
  2. Articulated by the lips, as the consonants b, m and w.
  3. Of an incisor or canine, on the side facing the lips. See mesial.
  4. Furnished with lips.

lobo

noun
  1. A wolf.

nabob

noun
  1. An Indian ruler within the Mogul empire.
  2. (by extension) Someone of great wealth or importance.
  3. (by extension) A person with a grandiose style or manner.

boba

noun
  1. Short for boba tea.
noun
  1. A small edible ball made primarily from tapioca starch; used in bubble tea.

noob

noun
  1. (often pejorative) A newb or newbie; refers to the idea that someone is new to a game, concept, or idea; implying a lack of experience. Also, in some areas the word noob can mean someone is obsessed with things.

collab

noun
  1. A collaboration, especially a work produced by several musicians who do not usually work together.
verb
  1. To collaborate.